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Numbers like this are always bonkers to me. Like, how have we allowed this to happen?
It’s a fucking social media site. I know surgeons who work 80-100 hour weeks and make 1.5M a year—and even that seems obscene to me. But they’re academic subspecialty surgeons who are quite literally saving lives daily by personally performing heart transplants. How the fuck do we think as a society that a smug ass CEO’s “effort” is worth 200x that?
Society is so backwards and fucked.
Greed should be punishable. If we can punish violence, we should be able to punish greed. They're two sides of the same coin.
Most people are too invested and emotionally attached (not saying it is a bad thing) to rise up and do some actual damage, because they'd be throwing their lives out, so not really gaining anything in the end. We need some good ol revolution.
This is a very good argument. Thank you. We have stats/quotes from ultra rich to show this backed up with fact.