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CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021 (www.epi.org)
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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it's why the collective should be fighting against this trend. But in recent times billionaires came to be revered more than anything. It's changing course a bit now again, but billionaires, and people in power in general, are still being defended way more than is reasonable.

Society treats being in power and being powerful as success and something to aspire to, and we can see where that leads.