| > A CEO is nowadays paid 339 the salary of their average worker" you say? If we are nitpicking, that's obviously false; only a tiny, tiny fraction of CEOs are paid that well. We are nitpicking, and you are wrong: https://therealnews.com/average-ceo-makes-339-times-more-tha... https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2023/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/261463/ceo-to-worker-com... "In 2022, it was estimated that the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 344.3 in the United States. This indicates that, on average, CEOs received more than 344 times the annual average salary of production and nonsupervisory workers in the key industry of their firm." > Aside from that, I'd wager a rather large fraction of HN can easily afford never to work again. This place is crawling with millionaires and they're definitely not embarrassed about it, temporarily or otherwise. Good luck convincing them. You can wager whatever you want, but statistically you'd be wrong. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240404-global-retirem... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-crisis-savings-short... |