Job Interviewer: so where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: the bottom of a river. let's talk compensation
Job Interviewer: so where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: the bottom of a river. let's talk compensation
Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.
Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Today in 1979, 44 years ago: Troops from the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan.
Today in 2012, 11 years ago: the album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar is released.
Today in 1969, 54 years ago: Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
Auto workers are demanding a 40% raise to match the 40% pay increase CEOs of the Detroit automakers got over the past 4 years.
CEOs are calling this absurd, but they couldn't be more wrong.
THIS IS A COMPROMISE. Why? Because worker's real wages have fallen 30% over the past 20 years. They're foregoing 16 years of wage theft for 4 of equity, and consistent equity going forward. That's basic justice.
Pay workers. Unionize workers. Tax billionaires. Save our economy.
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