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Sorry, but the numbers for that simply don't work out.

Pick any public company and divide CEO pay by headcount and it'll come out to a dollar figure way, way, way too small to account for the reduced share that workers are getting. There's something (likely multiple things) else sucking up all the money that was formerly shared with workers.




It obviously can't explain where the actual money is going, but it potentially can change the way CEOs behave in a way that changes where money goes.

Before the rise in CEO comp, CEOs were upper-middle class or borderline upper class. After the rise, CEOs are solidly upper class.

That aligns CEOs' interests much more firmly with the interests of capital and less with the interests of labor.


A dollar is worth about 30 cents. That's what has happened.




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