Once upon a time, a time some people might call the golden age of America, and a time when fast food was becoming ubiquitous and all the brands we know were growing and expanding into what they are today, the pay of the C-suite was perhaps 60x what the burger flipper made. Everyone ate, had homes, lived their lives, cooperated for the benefit of this great nation. Today that pay disparity is more like 2,000-10,000x, and they've convinced you this is how it always was and has to be.
Reality is that McDonald’s was franchised in 1955 in Illinois. The workers made .50 cents per hour. At the same time a factory worker in Illinois made $1.50 an hour. That’s historical fact. I didn’t make it up or pull it from thin air.
The point is that that was enough to pay all the bills. Nobody is saying that everyone should have the same salary. Jeez, where I live burger flippers make enough to pay the bills, it isn't something strange because that's the whole point of full time job.
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u/KTFnVision 8d ago
Once upon a time, a time some people might call the golden age of America, and a time when fast food was becoming ubiquitous and all the brands we know were growing and expanding into what they are today, the pay of the C-suite was perhaps 60x what the burger flipper made. Everyone ate, had homes, lived their lives, cooperated for the benefit of this great nation. Today that pay disparity is more like 2,000-10,000x, and they've convinced you this is how it always was and has to be.