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by vermilingua 1107 days ago
Yeah, the highest paid single individual person on that list gets only a measly 8% of the total estimate per year, therefore we shouldn't tax the rich.

The extreme mental gymnastics some people will go to to rationalize the current state of the world absolutely blows my mind.

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If you want to change the world positively, the first step is accepting the current state of the world is what it is.
They were pointing out that you jumped from the CEO compensation in general they mentioned, to just pointing at one person, which does not reflect the state of CEO remuneration (and the wealthy in general, which they also referenced), at all.