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a kennedy

(34,682 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:37 PM Saturday

If this isn't the reason for a TAX THE GAWD DAMN RICH SLOGAN.....

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

From Robert Reich

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If this isn't the reason for a TAX THE GAWD DAMN RICH SLOGAN..... (Original Post) a kennedy Saturday OP
Yeah even the piss coming down at us has Ilsa Saturday #1
Seriously??? Nothing??? a kennedy Saturday #2
Those pay rations are damn near criminal. calimary Saturday #3
Because they have stolen the money from us. Clouds Passing Saturday #4
Yup. I remember when.. Joinfortmill Saturday #5
Yeah, it's getting old, madamesilverspurs Saturday #6
You know the old saying: the rich get richer..... IcyPeas Saturday #7
K&R ReRe Saturday #8
Welcome the predatory overlords! moondust Saturday #9
Sadly it used to be worse. progressoid Sunday #10

IcyPeas

(24,471 posts)
7. You know the old saying: the rich get richer.....
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:35 PM
Saturday

The US has the most billionaires. Also the most millionaires.

The Countries With The Most Billionaires And Their Richest Citizens 2023

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ReRe

(12,118 posts)
8. K&R
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:39 PM
Saturday

It's all been nothing more than a shell game and a large amount of psychological warfare. Now you see it, now you don't. That's where the American Dream went. Straight out of our minds right into their pockets. And here we are 75 years later realizing that the Oligarchs have possession of all the people's money.

Every time someone caught on to their trick and complained about it, they would look down their self-righteous noses with the "Class Warfare" claim. Every. Single. Time. Well, little people, we know who was playing Class Warfare on who, don't we?

What we need to do is figure out what they took from us and take it back. Balance the books, so-to-speak. I say a good year to go back to would be 1973. IMHO, i.e. Robert Reich helps us see thru the fog of our war.

moondust

(21,101 posts)
9. Welcome the predatory overlords!
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:43 PM
Saturday


In 2013 the Swiss voted on a referendum that would have capped executive pay at 12 times that of the lowest paid worker in the company. The referendum failed after moneyed interests worked against it. I suspect the world would look much different today if that would have been made the law when slavery was abolished.
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