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Re:How People Get Rich Now by markvdb on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:44PM (#26784209)
> If there is outrage over CEO pay, it doesn't make sense to come from the unions or left politicians, it should be coming from activist hedge fund billionaires, which it does.

One doesn't have to be a shareholder or even a direct stakeholder in a specific company to claim the right to outrage over this growing inequality in pay.

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by missedthecue on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:35PM (#26784823)
The question is whether anyone is worse off because of it, and my comment points out that contrary to popular rhetoric, if anyone is getting hurt by it, it's not the employees.

If you think nobody is getting hurt by it, it's not a problem, it's just envy.

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by markvdb on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:43PM (#26786107)
It's certainly possible to view these things from other perspectives than a narrow transactional economic perspective. Can you imagine some of those?
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Re:How People Get Rich Now by missedthecue on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:59PM (#26786618)
Yes, jealousy and envy that other people do in fact make more money than I do. This is not a real societal problem, it's a personal and human nature problem.
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