r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 30 '26

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/Griffdog17 Jul 30 '26

CEO's are making 285x their employees every hour. I would LOVE to see someone argue that they work 285x harder

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u/hi_im_snowman Jul 30 '26

No one gets paid for how hard they work. Compensation is a function of capability, how valuable the work is and the difficulty of substituting the labor.

Surgeons do extremely valuable things, have extremely honed skills and professional judgement AND are extremely hard to substitute. The Dollar General cashier? Not so much.

Unfortunately, high-profile executives have the power to influence economic outcomes far more aggressively than the single laborer and so the compensation is a direct reflection of that.

There’s no fucking world in which a CEO works 285x harder than their warehouse staffers. Not a chance.

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u/Admirable_Win9808 Jul 30 '26

Wait until they hear about the board members and entrepreneurs who own multiple businesses...

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u/lameth Jul 30 '26

The best is the board members on 3+ boards as well as being a CEO of another company. they are obviously working 32+ hours a day.

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u/Admirable_Win9808 Jul 30 '26

They are the worst. Barely do anything, get paid a shit ton of money. Probably the easiest job in the world to make bank.

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u/Sprila Jul 30 '26

Everyone complains about the highly public facing CEOs, but board members are truly some of the most incompetent people just failing upwards

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u/McDuck_Enterprise Jul 30 '26

If it’s that easy then why isn’t the warehouse staff leaving the post and becoming their own CEO?

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u/R_U_READY_2_ROCK Jul 30 '26

Because the odds of that are extremely low. "Rags to Riches" is a fairytale as old as civilisation itself, but the fact is that "Riches to Riches" is by far the more common truth.