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Wait until you find out how far the pay of those rich assholes goes when you spread it around!

There are good arguments to be made for unionization. That some people make more - sometimes substantially more - isn't always one of them. Certainly trying to stoke anger might not always be the best of all available ways to win over people trying to be thoughtful.

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Executive salaries aren't the same thing as the surplus value extracted from your labor. If that was spread equally, each employee would make considerably more.

Surplus value extracted from labor is the literal definition of why you hire employees. If there wasn't surplus value, you wouldn't do it.

> Wait until you find out how far the pay of those rich assholes goes when you spread it around!

Like by raising wages? How else would you spread it around?

> That some people make more - sometimes substantially more - isn't always one of them.

Read marx. Or chomsky.

Yes, like raising wages. Big piles of money tend to turn into surprisingly small ones when spread out across big piles of people.

You'll have to pardon me if I'm reluctant to take my economics lessons from a linguist.

> You'll have to pardon me if I'm reluctant to take my economics lessons from a linguist.

Your loss, not mine!

Google's annual profit is something like 100,000 dollars per employee. Not exactly a small pile.

and RSUs of employees reflect that. start making that 100K into something smaller and your total comp will start to decrease.

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