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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 148 points 9 months ago

Salaries should by law be capped at max 10 times the lowest

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 55 points 9 months ago

Careful, you might be starting to make too much sense!

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

Doesn't Japan have a system like that? The difference in the lowest and highest paid employee can only be so many thousands different?

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

Yep, my friend works in a Japanese company and his CEO only makes 3x his salary.

[-] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

It’s unfortunate that it also requires you to live within shooting range of North Korea and China. Because Japan is a nice vacation spot.

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Don't forget appallingly long working hours.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Oh, and don't be not Japanese

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[-] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Then they'd just get two jobs at the same company, and get two salaries or some other loophole the lawmakers planned for the whole time.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Preferable to 319 jobs I'd say.

You people see the fuckery, shrug your shoulders and say "eh - just let them get away with it".

Fuck that, and fuck them - don't be conned into emptying your pockets to spare them the trouble of robbing you.

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 95 points 9 months ago

It probably will bankrupt him. But only because he built his business on the basis of exploiting employees. He won't make money if he doesn't do that. Which of course means he shouldn't be in business.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 14 points 9 months ago

He is only CEO. Ford going to zero will only sting, it cannot bankrupt him.

Your point remains.

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[-] jpablo68@mujico.org 79 points 9 months ago

It's always one of the two with this companies, it's either "we're making millions" or "we're going under" there's no inbetween.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Often both at the same time!

[-] TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

"Great job team! We've increased our profits more than ever before! Now we need your help more than ever to increase profits even further. Unfortunately we cannot afford to pay our employees more, because of the great investmemts we need to make to keep increasing our profits!"

[-] sdoorex@slrpnk.net 16 points 9 months ago

The beauty of Hollywood accounting spreading to other industries. Ford Motor Company sells their cars for an on book loss after sales incentives like sub-prime financing through Ford Credit. Ford Credit then makes a profit due to interest payments thus wiping out the loss on the vehicle sale.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 75 points 9 months ago

Looks like we found one job that should be automated by AI to save Ford 21 million dollars a year.

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[-] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago

If you make $100,000 for 40 years straight that is $4M. This dude made $21M in a single year. Ford’s share buyback program in 2022 totaled $484M. GM’a share buyback program totaled $3.4B in the past twelve months. We live in a fucked up world. Meanwhile, Ford/GM/Stellantis employees cannot afford to even buy the vehicles they make or feed themselves decent food.

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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 54 points 9 months ago

CEOs need to take pay cuts. They earn too much and don't provide enough value for their pay.

[-] quatschkopf34@feddit.de 50 points 9 months ago
[-] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For context, this research paper was also pre-pandemic.

On average, CEO salaries jumped about 30% since this research was released. Here is an updated article by the EPI EPI Research

Also for context - on 1965, average CEO-to-worker salary ratio was 20:1, and in 1985 it was 59:1.

Not it's almost 400:1.

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[-] elbowgrease@lemm.ee 49 points 9 months ago
[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 19 points 9 months ago

Looks like while all of Chris's brothers got in to comedy his cousin Jim decided to become a laughing stock of a person instead. You did it all wrong, Jimbo.

[-] teft@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago

Maybe he never watched Tommy Boy.

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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

Just broke my brain a little bit, that crazy!

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[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 34 points 9 months ago

Well yeah? If his workers make 66k how is he going to make 23 mil this year?

[-] MinimalistPotato@sh.itjust.works 34 points 9 months ago

Read "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber guys. It's really worth it!

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago

Is this Guy related to Chris Farley? I definitely see some resemblance.

[-] Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago
[-] Techmaster@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago

Holy schnikies!

[-] Lemmywhat@monyet.cc 29 points 9 months ago

Total revolution needed. Workers that do the real thing barely can feed their mouth, while those useless management ceo got huge cut

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago
[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

Hope the cost of living helps offset that.. what company has been stealing your labor from you?

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

Big Lots, worst pay to effort ratio of anywhere I've ever worked. Working harder than I ever have for less than I ever have until I find something else.

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

That sucks smelly ass, sorry to hear that, maybe try and organize once you have another job lined up? I'll never forget working the morning shift at hardes, literally the most stressful job I have ever had, for the least pay I have ever made. I got a job at a factory and made twice the salary, but did a quarter of the work, and I had to hear the people I work with denigrate fastfood workers wanting to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour, cause they thought they worked so much harder and only made $12 an hour. They pit us against eachother while eating caviar from fishes that are going extinct because they are actively poisoning every aspect of our society and our world simultaneously and living in opulence that make the Kings of old look modest. Shits gotta give...

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[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

No one should earn that kind of money period.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why are these posts specifically aimed at car company CEOs?

Are they begging for money in Congress again ?

Is this an anticar thing ?

Are they in union négociations ?

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago

The American autoworkers union is currently striking due to stalled contract negotiations.

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To add this for posterity, there is an additional component to the U.S. autoworkers union striking. In 2008 during the global financial crisis (with things like robosigning foreclosures, predatory loans with ballooning interest rates, etc.), some U.S. automakers were asking for government bailouts, which eventually were granted. These bailouts were entirely taxpayer funded. Now the automakers are refusing to meet union contract negotiations. Automakers not paying employees cost-of-living, or frankly, just salary increases is upsetting, but the additional hypocrisy of U.S. tax-paying citizens bailing out these companies with their own money in 2008, and then not having the companies return some of the wealth in 2023 is enraging.

Edit:

Forgot to add that when the automakers were begging for government bailouts, the automakers had to take away worker pensions and some benefits to "protect the system". In 2023, the U.S. autoworkers union is fighting to get those benefits back for the workers.

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[-] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 17 points 9 months ago

How could you be so heartless? How is he supposed to afford his second super yacht?

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

The wrong Farley died in 1997.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

Ford has 186,000 employees. His entire salary, divided amongst every employee, would be $112.90.

He's certainly overpaid - like pretty much all CEOs - but this is a bad example.

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 49 points 9 months ago

Its called juxtaposition my guy, Ford also spent almost half billion on stock buybacks last year which could have been used to give every Ford Employee a $2500 bonus to share their profits, but instead they used it to buy back stocks...

[-] dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 47 points 9 months ago

And buying back the stock has the effect of making the stock price go up. And guess who gets the most stock? The CEO and C suite. They give themselves huge raises by doing this and it's perfectly legal :(

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[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Sure, but Ford made a profit of 10 billion last year according to google. That means that they can give every single one of those 186k people a 6000$ raise and still be left with almost 9 billion in profit.

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