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Equal Footing
Read more . . . →The guy on the left isn’t faster. His lane is. Same track, same distance. One runner is standing on a conveyor belt doing the work for him. The other is ankle-deep in sand and losing ground with every stride. Nobody built the sand lane by accident.
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Every 4.23 Seconds
Read more . . . →Elon Musk made $158 billion at Tesla last year. His median employee made $57,243. That means Musk earned a full year of his average worker’s salary every 4.23 seconds. Not every minute. Every 4.23 seconds. You can’t read this paragraph faster than that man out-earns the people building his cars. The AFL-CIO’s latest Paywatch report has the average S&P 500 CEO making 312 times what their median worker earns. Up from 285 the year before. Highest ratio in three decades of counting. And those numbers exclude Musk entirely, because his payout is so large it breaks the average. Factor him...
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The Smallest Slice Since 1947
Read more . . . →Since 1947, the government has tracked how much of the economy goes to the people who actually do the work. This year it hit 52.8 percent, the lowest number in the entire dataset. Not during Reagan. Not during the 2008 crash. Not during COVID. Right now, with corporate pre-tax profits at $4.8 trillion in a single quarter. The economy is doing fine. Your cut of it isn’t. Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation last year came out to $158 billion, 2.5 million times what the median Tesla employee made. Two and a half million times. The S&P 500 has gained 600 percent...
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Your boss made 341 times what you did last year
Read more . . . →The numbers came in. Median CEO pay hit $29.4 million in 2025 — up 23.2% in a single year. Your salary increase was “held steady” at 3.5%. The CEO pay ratio is now 341:1. Last year it was 300:1. They’re moving faster than inflation, just in the wrong direction. This was the same year that Meta cut 700 workers after paying its executives $921 million. The same year Disney, SNAP, and Cleveland Cliffs announced mass layoffs. The board rooms were handing out bonuses at target while HR was firing off termination emails. Nobody called an emergency shareholder meeting about that...
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