The issue is not whether the lower classes are lazy slobs, sure some are, but many are not. The issue is how the gap between 'regular' pay and CEO-style pay has grown drastically over the past 20 or so years. A newspaper article I read about a month ago (no link sorry, it was a month ago) reported that 20 years ago, average executive pay was 20-30 times average worker pay, and that today the average executive pay is about 200-300 times what an average worker is getting paid.
Are the executives working ten times harder? Are the regular workers doing ten times less work?
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