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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by dantheman on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:50AM (#17775071)
Just to flip your assumptions around here's an idea; no personal knowledge here, just a potential alternate narrative.

Perhaps competition drives executives salaries faster than general workers. There is intense competition for those who can have a large impact on the bottom line. In tougher/faster paced competitive environment the demand for qualified/experienced individuals must be intense.

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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by maxerickson on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:52AM (#17775099)
I imagine much of the explanation is firm size growing.

You don't have to scrape out a lot of Walmart's revenues to get a huge salary. You have to scrape out a pretty big chunk of the revenue of a 50 person firm to get a large salary, never mind a huge one.

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