This graph haunts me. I can't stop thinking about it. Take a good look at those numbers. In 2005, the average C.E.O in America earned 821 times that of a minimum wage earner. In 2005, minimum wage was $5.15 an hour. That works out to $4,228.15 an hour for a C.E.O. Perhaps by now that number has dropped somewhat. Perhaps -- probably more likely -- it has risen. The Economic Policy Institute's website is chock full of these kinds of sobering facts.
Unless those C.E.O's possess some kind of magical powers -- are able to shoot lighting bolts out of their asses, or heal the sick with just a gentle touch of their mighty hands, I can't justify the humongous disparity in earnings between them and their lowest paid workers.
Anyone who has ever had kids, or worked with kids, knows how much time is devoted in teaching them to share. Maybe C.E.O's need to go back to preschool until they learn to share.
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