The median pay for the top 100 highest-paid CEOs at America’s publicly traded companies was a handsome $13.9 million in 2013. That’s a 9 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new Equilar pay study For The New York Times.
Dit soort sprongen bij de beloning van bestuurders kan mogelijk een groter effect hebben op onze toenemende ongelijkheid in het inkomen dan eerder werd gedacht. Een nieuw boek dat spreekt van de academische wereld en de media, Kapitaal in de eenentwintigste eeuw door Thomas Piketty, een 42-jarige die lesgeeft aan de Parijse School of Economics, laat zien dat tweederde van Amerika's toename van inkomensongelijkheid in de afgelopen veertig jaar het gevolg is van steile stijgingen voor de hoogste verdieners van het land.
This week, Bill talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, about Piketty’s “magnificent” new book.
“What Piketty’s really done now is he said, ‘Even those of you who talk about the 1 percent, you don’t really get what’s going on.’ He’s telling us that we are on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy. A society of inherited wealth.”
Krugman adds: “We’re seeing inequalities that will be transferred across generations. We are becoming very much the kind of society we imagined we’re nothing like.”
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We are already a highly unequal society and also a society of an oligarchy that is growing by leaps and bounds. We are already a society of inherited wealth that is becoming more and more entrenched in which this elite level of society is not taxed enough in which the burden of taxation is placed upon the middle class, working class, poor, and marginalized, thus maximizing the injustice and inequities and making it increasingly difficult to create a society with a social orientation like countries such as Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.