The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned 614 times more than their average worker last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
IPS’s latest executive excess report analyzed compensation at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay. Between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%, unadjusted for inflation, twice as much as the median worker pay increased at these firms during the same period, at 20.7%.
Inflation also outpaced worker pay increases, rising by 25.9%.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at the low-wage 100 firms increased 8.4% between 2019 and 2025.
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Unfortunately people have zero willpower now a days. They couldn’t even get people to wear a damn mask for covid, bear case it saves your life, worst case omg it’s annoying wootie damn doo.
If they won’t wear something that might have their life, you think they can stop buying soda and Doritos?
The system is set up so that people are exhausted just trying to survive. It’s not willpower. The US is structured to eat its’ humans alive.
It would take a lot more than not buying soda or doritos.