Alternet: Presenting The Ten Greediest Americans Of 2011

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http://www.alternet.org/story/153418/presenting_the_ten_greediest_americans_of_2011?page=entire

By Sam Pizzigati

Presenting the Ten Greediest Americans of 2011

You don't have to make a million to rate as an all-star greedster. You do have to be ruthless, self-absorbed and grossly insensitive.

December 13, 2011 |

The greediest among us in 2011 probably haven’t been any greedier, as a gang, than any greedy of the recent past. They just seem that way.

Why so? We have a whole new frame of reference. This fall’s sudden — and exhilarating — rise of the Occupy movement has helped us remember what we, as a society, had sadly forgotten: that decent, smart societies never let the few grab away rewards that ought to be shared among the many.

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9. Michael Duke: Shifting the Goalposts

How do CEOs end up making so much? Ask Michael Duke, the chief exec at retail colossus Wal-Mart. Duke takes home his millions — $18.7 million in his company’s latest fiscal year alone — the old-fashioned way. He squeezes workers.

2. Don Blankenship: Prepping for a Comeback

This past May, West Virginia state investigators found Massey Energy directly to blame for the 2010 blast that left 29 miners dead at the company’s Upper Big Branch coal mine. Massey CEO Don Blankenship’s management team, probers charged, had nurtured a “culture bent on production at the expense of safety.”

[DCKit]

1. As usual, great catch!

Though it was quite the horrifying read.

[City Lights]

2. The behind-the-scenes info in this piece are priceless!

Ruthless arseholes. It'll be fun sharing this with some of my relatives.

[Stuart G]

3. You really cannot adequately describe these assholes..k an r..nt