It still remains, the average individual income in the US is $57k/year. A UPS driver's is $170k, it requires no college degree and no particular skills other than drive a delivery truck and lift occasionally heavy packages. That pay package includes a Cadillac healthcare plan. As someone quickly pointed out, the CEO at UPS made $19M last year, which means that everyone at the top 2 layers (C levels and Senior VP) made at least $3M each. Personally, what I find most offensive is the exorbitant cost of sending a package via UPS. Now I know why.
Hello Overnight, I am telling ever man or woman, that complains to me about not having money to ONLY do two things. 1. Trade the ES future market 2. get CDL and work +60 hours a week. Doing 1 and 2, something will eventually makes sense.
Hence the crazy wealth gap between the haves and have-nots (not that I'm pro union). But the in-your-face greed factor among the CEO bonus has really stained the entire socioeconomic fabric IMO.
In LA, many of us commute >50 miles each way to work. I did that for years, but by choice, because I love to live in OC. That said, I have a lot of respects and sympathies for the officers.
Do you find Elon's wealth offensive? I had a retail business that dealt heavily with UPS (a small chain of stores similar to what are now called UPS Stores, back then Mailbox Etc) and know first hand what my UPS guys did. And it ain't easy at all. Any job taking place on America's roads are rough way to earn a living.
Lol, you think driving for UPS for $170k per year is rough? you should check out strawberry picking or slaughterhouses.. It's absolutely ridiculous to believe a UPS driver is worth that much and the rest of the world thinks so as well because nowhere else in the world are they paid that much. As for Musk paid so much? Yes, it's exorbitant but he has never received a salary from Tesla, only shares based on performance and he's reached the marks every time when no one expected him to. Also, he heads multiple companies that didn't exist 20 years ago and created 150,000 jobs in that time, many of which have created multiple millionaires. Still, is it absurdly high? Sure it is. Just wait until SpaceX and Starlink go public... You might then think he's now paid peanuts.