Robert ReichThe CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest public companies is now 399-to-1.
In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Dr Susi Arnott@rbreich 'Wealth' is hoovered up, not trickled down...
SellaTheChemist@SusiArnott @rbreich We live in a kleptocracy and you and I blew it when we did PhDs instead of applying to Morgan Stanley…
Sune Auken@sellathechemist @SusiArnott @rbreich
Then again, you did retain your souls. There are worse things to keep.
@SuneAuken @SusiArnott @rbreich My grandmother always thought me a half-wit because I did science and didn't know German so couldn't read Faust in the original. Maybe it was my soul she was trying to protect!
I inherited her father's complete Goethe. And I still can't read it!!! 😜
Leonie@atolisglli @sellathechemist @SusiArnott @rbreich
It's so beautiful. The literary scholar in me I absolutely adores it. And then it's a "letzter Hand" edition - which is such a rare thing today. Lovely.
Agreed. I think we spend far too much time speaking ill of one another and not appreciating each others' value between the fields.
As a Humanities researcher, I hugely admire the work done by scientists and love it when my kids study science.