The cult of the CEO must end.
What if we just made all the workers into CEOs?
Like the workers owned and operated the business? Their hard work would be rewarded with profit sharing? That would actually mean I’d have to care about the shareholders.
But what if those workers owned the business too? Like what if it was beholden to the same kind of person who goes to work every day like the people who worked there?
What a world that would be.
Let the age of microcorporations begin
That doesn’t work. You need a decision maker.
It’s not a terribly difficult job so they don’t need to get paid more than anyone else, but executive action by committee doesn’t work.
I hope one day I can see labor universally organized. I sadly don’t think I will, but that’s the dream
Around the country, collective action is in a resurgence. I saw striking aircraft workers today. I believe it was Beech, but I’m visiting family and can’t say for sure as Wichita KS is a manufacturing hub.
Misleading headline is misleading. Median household income is up well over 400% in that same period.
I think it’s supposed to be inflation adjusted?
Median income was $71K in 1979, it’s $80K today.
Inflation matters.
