Meet the CEO Who Cut Worker Pay in Half While Pulling in $21 Million Last Year

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72. $50,000 a year puts you above about 50% of the rest of the country

Who said anything about bitterness? What did I say that was bitter?

I said that $19 an hour, especially for a starting wage, still sounds pretty good to me.

The greed seems to me that everybody here is seeming wailing about "oh noes, $19 is not enough, they should make a hundred and twenty dollars an hour, nobody can live on a mere $16 an hour."

And the other point is that it is not just the 1% or the 0.1% who are squeezing the bottom 50% and eating all the pie. Those in the top 9% and the top 19% have fairly large slices themselves.

It is just absurd to claim that when my income doubled that somehow gave a benefit to my neighbors. For the $19 an hour person to goto $28 an hour doesn't do much at all for those who are making $8 an hour. It's trickle down nonsense and it has policy implications too, as the Democratic party is very eager to serve the $30 an hour set (who gives them most of their donations) and to throw the $10 an under set under the bus.