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The whole idea of ‘front-line workers’ as if it’s some kind of battlefield is stupid drama and leads to nothing but Facebook whinery about unrelated things like executive bonuses. It’s so excessively dramatic it can’t be taken seriously.

If they want executive pay, take a management course and move upwards through the organization. It really isn’t that hard.

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Is stupid drama and leads to nothing but Facebook whinery

Right -- the workers quoted in the article (the same people who will be saving your ass on your next trip to the emergency room) are just a bunch of whining babies, with no idea they're talking about. Too stupid, in fact, to realize that literally each and everyone one of them can just take a class, and help themselves to CEO pay.

No, they aren’t the ones complaining about executive bonuses and in fact nowhere does the article say they are the ones complaining. They leave that useless whinery to Karen on the internet.

> the same people who will be saving your ass on your next trip to the emergency room

This kind of emotional appeal is on the same level as crying ‘Won’t somebody please think about the children!’. And of course it has absolutely nothing to do with executive bonuses.

They aren’t the ones complaining about executive bonuses

From the article: "Frontline nurse talks about NY hospital executive pay and bonuses during pandemic"

Apparently the tear tugging emotional appeal of this nurse is so inconsequential it wasn’t deemed worthy including in the article text, but indeed they found a nurse issuing it. She felt this, she felt that. I don’t think a hospital is the right place of work if you can’t stand the risks of being close to sick people and I doubt there would be any amount of money that would have ameliorated the risk. But hey, you can and should always try for more! Shame the executives are more effective at that and I do agree that a management course is not for everyone, case in point.

Why do you believe the executives should be paid more in these situations? They take less personal health risk than the front-line workers and by your logic it seems that executive jobs aren't that difficult if the job can be acquired by just taking a management course. So they clearly aren't being paid more because the job is harder.

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