Bell the Cats

Without a standard, money numbers are out of control.

These three CEOs were paid $460 million over five years (Ben Rooney, CNN, March 6, 2008). That's each $15,333 an hour.

Money is not corn. It cannot grow. If some people receive more, other people must receive less.

Bell those cats; express their incomes in years!

To convert millions of dollars to years of work at $50 an hour, just add a zero.

$1 million = 10 years
$10 million = 100 years
$100 million = 1,000 years
$460 million = 4,600 years.

We have a minimum wage; we need a maximum wage.

$100 an hour would be $200,000 a year, more than four times as much as the U.S. median income of $46,000.

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