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> it has little to no effect on JCPenney's solvency

Distributing the $7.5M to all employees, or as severance to the fired employees, instead of just the execs, would also have had no effect on their solvency...

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According to Wikipedia, JCPenny’s has 90,000 employees. Assuming half were furloughed/fired (and it’s probably more than that), then distributing $7,500,000 to 45,000 people is $166/person.

Are you making the point that a large bonus to a few people is better than a small bonus to many people? Can you expand on why that is?

I’m making no judgement or claim either way, just providing context.

I know workers who could really use $166. That's a week of cheap groceries.

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