[Opinion. You probably have enough to live on or you couldn’t be wasting your time on AN. The wealth gap today is far greater than it was in the time of the robber barons before it all collapsed in 1929. People committed suicide…over money! Do the super-rich give back enough to their fellow human beings to deserve that wealth? At a certain point, money just keeps on making more money. That’s why we don’t have to raise taxes. Just confiscate anything over, what, $20M and use it for the public good. You know these rich a-holes are driven. They’ll just go out and make more anyway!]

Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025

Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies

Michael Sainato

The Guardian: 13 Aug 2026

SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/13/elon-musk-tesla-pay-workers

Elon Musk received over 2.5m times as much compensation at Tesla as the company’s average worker, according to a new report on the growing gap between top corporate executives and their workers.

Musk’s $158.3bn pay deal was an outlier but came as the gap between CEO and worker pay continued to grow. Excluding Musk, last year the average ratio of CEO to worker pay for the top S&P 500 companies was 312 to 1, up from a 285:1 ratio in 2024. With Musk, the average pay ratio was 5,387:1, according to the executive pay watch report released this week by the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the US.

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37 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Just confiscate anything over, what, $20M and use it for the public good. You know these rich a-holes are driven.

That is what stupid and jealous people say.

Poor people stay poor because they are not smart enough to make the right decisions in life.

Don't blame the rich , blame yourself and your parents.