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Thom Hartmann: Corporate CEOs have a Secret

submitted by Boise_Lib

1 decade 1 year 11 months 1 week ago

YouTube Description:

Corporate CEOs have a secret they don't want you to know about...and that's how much money they're stealing from their workers. And Republicans are accomplices in the thievery. Last year - as part of the Wall Street reform bill passed by Congressional Democrats and signed by President Obama - there was a provision forcing corporations to disclose just how large the pay gap is between their CEOs and their average workers. As in how much more money the bigwig in the corporate office makes SITTING on his butt all year versus how much money the factory floor worker makes BUSTING his butt all year. The provision was included in hopes that if people knew just how gross the pay gap is between CEOs and workers - then maybe there would be more pressure to shrink it...as they say - sunlight is the best disinfectant. And today - outrageous corporate pay is infecting our economy. Consider that back in the 1970s - CEOs made about 30 times more than their average worker - as in what they did was 30 times more valuable to the company than what other workers did. But since then - the numbers have exploded - and today - CEOs make as much as 400 times their average worker and in some cases on Wall Street - as much as 2,000 times the average worker. Can today's CEOs really justify that they are 2,000 times more valuable to the company than their workers? They can't - and that's...