While your gas prices are skyrocketing, Big Oil executives have cashed out $1.4 BILLION in stock in a single quarter, a 15-year peak in insider selling. In one quarter, Chevron’s CEO sold $104M, ConocoPhillips’ Chairman & CEO sold $54.3M, and Baker Hughes’ CEO sold $33M.
— Rep. Mike Levin (@levin.house.gov) April 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) November 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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When people say 'run government like a business,' they mean cut services, raise prices, and pay the CEO 400 times more than the workers.
— God (@godpod.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 31, 2024
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works, huh?
Between 1978 and 2022:
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 12, 2024
-Worker pay grew by 15%
-Top exec pay jumped by 1,209%
Major US CEOs are now paid 344 times more than their typical employees.
When I say corporate CEOs are exploiting labor, this is what I mean.
Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $17.8M salary is driving up the cost?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 2, 2024
35 major corporations paid their execs MORE than what they paid in federal income taxes between 2018 and 2022.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 13, 2024
Each of the companies generated billions of dollars in profit over the same period.
When I say the system is rigged for the rich, this is what I mean.
The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest companies was 344-to-1 last year. In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) December 3, 2023
This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable.
They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.
Notice how nobody ever says rising CEO pay might be "too much of a good thing"? https://t.co/3U2I93AVsH
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) July 8, 2023
Let's be clear: America's “moral crisis” isn't about pregnancies, contraceptives, or which bathroom people use.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 3, 2023
It's obscene CEO pay, wage theft from workers, Wall Street gambling, money corrupting our politics, and the failure of those with power to serve the common good.
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 22, 2023
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works, huh?
When your boss's income has risen 937% since 1978 and yours has increased by only 5.7%, it's time to stop blaming immigrants for your woes.
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) October 20, 2022
In Denmark, as a result of strong unions, McDonald's workers make $22 an hour, get 6 weeks paid vacation & 1 year of paid leave.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 2, 2022
In the US, 58% of McDonald's workers make less than $12 an hour & no benefits while its CEO makes $20 million. Every worker needs a union. #MayDay2022
CEO pay
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) August 17, 2021
1965: $951,000
Now: $24,194,000
Worker pay
1965: $43,200
Now: $61,200
Half the workers have been convinced that they're poor because of "China." Well, the CEO offshored your job to save money and get a bonus.
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