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One job is important to the prosperity and safety of our future. The other can disappear tomorrow and nothing would change
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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To be fair, there are plenty other jobs thst could be cut, like CEO of Amazon
Every corporate CEO should be cut... with a guillotine
You are a visionary @Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
Note that the CEO's also don't go very far for teacher pay. It looks like a few hundred CEO's cut would raise teachers yearly pay by ~$100/month. Same mistake: 4 million is a big number to divide by.
How about all the money made by health insurance companies that shouldn't exist? That'd go a long way toward funding education.
If we believe the internet, all of that is funneled to the CEOs, and so the previous post applies?
(Which seems absurd to me, but maybe the bills are rare enough that this makes sense? Does anybody have data on how big that figure is vs actual cost of the buildings+labor+materials? We could compare to other countries, but then I think we're seeing a difference in infrastructure, social and physical, more than malfeasance.)
While I'm sure there's a not-insignificant amount of government grants that go towards CEO pay... they're not paid directly by the government. That's an even worse comparison.
A failure to tax them is one remove away from direct payment.