Reply #78: This sums up the problem right here:

[Fritz67]

Last year Wells Fargo made $45,415 of pure profit for every employee?
Each and every employee could’ve gotten a $10,000 bonus last year and Wells Fargo still would’ve made almost $10 billion.

Except, of course, for the fact that every dollar paid to an employee is a dollar that the fucking CEO can't give himself in his fucking bonus.

It's not even corporate greed anymore; it's the individual greed of the sociopathic assholes running the corporations. They don't really care if their company craters--they still get their multi million dollar bonuses. Even if the company gets rid of them, they still get multi million dollar "severance packages". (I won't even ask if the average employee gets a "severance package" for fear of triggering a long, sustained bout of bitter laughter.)

There really is something diseased in the mind of someone who has millions of dollars, looks around, and goes "I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH!!! PAY ME MORE!!! I NEED A TAX CUT!!!"