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Read that again. Someone making federal minimum wage would have to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week with no sick days and still wouldn't make that much in like 130 years, which is well beyond even a generous human lifespan let alone the usable years of a lifespan.
That federal minimum wage is grossly below what is needed just to survive is a different argument, except that it's people like Steve that are responsible for the disparity between income and subsistence level.
I read it when I wrote it, I'm comparing $2M to $200M here, not to minimum wage, and not defending anyone
That's the problem though, you're comparing two ridiculous numbers for one person to make in a year and trying to convince us that one is less bad for some reason. Their both psychotic. And yes, you are in fact defending it as evidenced by you replying to defend it. Come on, man.
$2 million over two years is actually a pretty reasonable salary for the founder and CEO of a major company by comparison to other major companies, and is two orders of magnitude less than $200 million. Two orders of magnitude less than $2 million is $20,000, that's the scale of difference we're talking about here