Second, Google’s workers famously include many many contractors who do not get the same benefits as Google’s direct employees. This is exploitation.
Third, the exploitation runs deeper than just google workers. Their customers include companies which are paying a bunch of money to use their services. This is money which otherwise could have gone to the developers of those customers. Those workers are also exploited by google’s bosses and shareholders.
Good grief.
The highest paid workers on the planet, work for google. You should spread this communist blather at the proper place, coffee shops where workers aren't paid a living wage.
Not people able to retire wealthy, is they invest their salary coreectly.
Talk about entitlement.
I don't think anyone here is advocating for cutting Pichai's pay to $500k or something, but nearly a quarter billion dollars? JFC
For me “Market rate” is just something the owning class tells us to gaslight us into accepting our exploitation. They created this market, they control this market, and exploiters go on exploiting.
What benefit does a board of directors have over helping out the CEO (an employee as well) vs customers and employees?
> What benefit does a board of directors have over helping out the CEO (an employee as well) vs customers and employees?
Note I say workers. Even though a CEO is technically “employed” by the company, they are still very much a boss, a part of the owning class, and part of the problem. When the pitchforks come up, they will very much be directed at CEOs. This is why CEOs help out their fellow bosses and shareholders. Class solidarity is very much a reality for the owning and ruling classes.
They "generate" the value by putting software on multi-billion dollar server farms, while sitting in buildings on top of billions worth of real estate. Did they pay for those and keep them running?
Stop wanting everyone to be as poor as you god damn. I want employees to make as much as they can, not all the wealth concentrate in a capital class. WTF is wrong with people?
Also I was thinking in terms of math applied to percentiles and other statistics, which don't change with inflation.
Are you really going to say it's crab bucket if I say a number like "a million dollars" and say it should apply to both income and capital gains? Maybe even a lower number for capital gains, if I'm being feisty?
Well paid google workers are still workers and deserve our solidarity. Making a distinction among workers between lower classes, and middle and upper class only serves to divide us, destroy our solidarity, and for our bosses to keep exploiting us.
And why shouldn't I have some solidarity with an owner of a business that has 30k more assets than debts and personally makes 40k a year?
I think income and wealth are better distinguishers than the role you have.
This is exploitation. The owning class for the owning class. The rich benefit and the workers are left exploited. Larry, Sergey, Pichai, they are all participating and benefiting at the cost of the workers. Any in-fighting and rivalry is at best a spectacle. At the end of the day, they all go home to the wealth, earned by their workers but enjoyed by the owners, and the owners alone, whether you call them bosses or shareholders, they are all simply exploiters.