Rich & Poor
I have posted on other occasions about the pay equity gaps between bosses and workers.
Just out (The Dominion Post, October 3, 2017) a New Zealand statistic that, between 1997 and 2015, the incomes of chief executives increased 228% and the average worker’s by 91%.
The pay packet of the CEO of the NZ co-op company Fonterra stands at $8.3 million.
Having been a modest wage earner all my working life, my mind boggles at why anyone needs that sort of staggering income.
If it was my pay packet, with my modest needs, I could have retired comfortably after 6 month’s work and lived on savings for the next 40 years and longer.
Is it not past the time for a fairer distribution of wealth? Or am I just being a ‘have-not’?
On TV yesterday I saw a programme about luxury foods the very rich like to eat. The cost is obscene when you think of all the malnourished and starving people in the world.
Just out (The Dominion Post, October 3, 2017) a New Zealand statistic that, between 1997 and 2015, the incomes of chief executives increased 228% and the average worker’s by 91%.
The pay packet of the CEO of the NZ co-op company Fonterra stands at $8.3 million.
Having been a modest wage earner all my working life, my mind boggles at why anyone needs that sort of staggering income.
If it was my pay packet, with my modest needs, I could have retired comfortably after 6 month’s work and lived on savings for the next 40 years and longer.
Is it not past the time for a fairer distribution of wealth? Or am I just being a ‘have-not’?
On TV yesterday I saw a programme about luxury foods the very rich like to eat. The cost is obscene when you think of all the malnourished and starving people in the world.
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