Congresswoman grills billionaire CEO over pay disparity
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https://youtu.be/2WLuuCM6Ej0
Eat the rich.
Yeah its cool that she's grilling them in public but where is the action? Is Congress gonna slap them with a law that raises entry level salaries? Will the CEOs fix this outside of a congressional act?
Nope, no laws would pass that do anything close but legally they can shame the shit out of them and make them look like assholes.
At most it is a symbolic gesture, but I think having this aired is important as it generates discussion. People begin to see things in a different light.
Like it legit blows my mind when people defend rich fucking people when their own employees cannot even survive on their salary.
changing things for the better is un-American.
No matter how well intended politicians like her are, this never gets anywhere. It's almost just for show after it gets to the people in charge of actually dropping the hammers.
This shit is everywhere. We got hundreds of families per company living on peanuts, and then singular assholes like this guy who get more money than they could even spend in almost two life times. It's fucking infuriating. It doesn't makes sense how theres singular individuals with such absurd ammounts of money, and then theres a couple of trillion people who fear for what lies ahead next month.
FYI she is a freshman representative who won in 2018, flipping a red district blue for the first time in it's history. Even if she had the clout to push a bill that raised the federal minimum wage or put a cap on CEO salaries, she wouldn't be able to pass it to the Senate because Mich McConnell would block it.
I came into this thread and expected a literal grilling, I'm disappointed.
My main take-away from this are the expenses she listed rather than the girl's income.
Rent is too damn high, medical expenses are laughable, I see no reason why schools shouldn't be funded to provide their cheap-ass food and field trips for free.
I'm guessing the girl in question is making 15$/hr just as a rough estimate from what I take home at the end of the month.
While yes, I think minimum wage should be exchanged for a livable wage, we'd also want to get prices under control too so that the living wage doesn't need to be as high and is more appealing to employers.
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