if the “boss makes a dollar, i make a dime” line was real amazon workers would all have 19 billion dollars. if the “boss makes a thousand and gives me a cent” line was real, amazon workers would all have over 100 million dollars
Tomorrow I’m opening my first grocery store in a Title One school. I doubt I sleep tonight - imagine a parent between checks who can order dinner and breakfast for their family thru our app and their child bring it home. I’m changing lives man, no one does it like me. Just wait!
In the 1930s average rent was $18 a month. If you got paid $0.25 you could pay rent in 72 hours of work. To pay $1000 rent you gotta work 137 hours if you getting paid the federal minimum of $7.25.
An ultra-millionaire wealth tax would raise $13.3 BILLION from Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg alone.
With that, we could invest in schools, infrastructure, renewable energy, and more.
But don’t worry, they’ll still have $431 billion left between the 3 of them to buy super yachts.