Reply #23: No. They only have to go up if corporate pigs take 500x a living wage [View All]

[EstimatedProphet]

which is what they've been doing for some time now.

The fact that people aren't making a living wage anymore serves 2 purposes, not just one: the obvious one, that CEOs and their evil ilk can suck up the slack into their own salary; and a less-realized one, which is that it keeps the 'rabble' down.

Getting money is satisfying only to a certain extent. Eventually the gathering of money in and of itself loses its rush, because more money doesn't keep putting more distance between you and the general public. You're a millionaire? You have a lot of economic distance between you and the average person. But the more you get doesn't mean that you still keep increasing that economic distance-eventually, adding on even millions won't push you that much farther ahead of the average person. The way you keep that rush going in that case is to make things worse for the average person, by holding down wages to where they can barely get by, overcharging on necessary items so that people have to use an increasing portion of their income to get by, etc. The people that are now in charge who think this way will only be happy when we a truly slaves, and they have ultimate control over all of us.