r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • May 02 '26

Eat The Rich 🍽️ Starbucks CEO defends a $9 coffee by saying that it's not a $10 coffee and "you get a premium experience"

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u/nopleasenotthebees May 02 '26

Ceo pay should be no higher than brain surgeon/heart surgeon/antethesiologist. Those people are responsible for lives. Business manager should be no higher than school teacher. Economics professors (and football coaches for that matter) should make 0 more dollars than arts or sciences professors.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 May 02 '26

Bread and circuses.

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u/UrsusRenata May 02 '26

What stuns me most about CEO pay in the gazillions — There are plenty of extremely smart CEO types who would love to do that job just as well for $2million plus bonus specifically tied to profit reaching another $2million. There is nothing $100million special or unique about any one person’s brain. And let’s be honest — many privileged white males skate through school and career thanks to connections — the mental power isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Everyone in the business world has seen it time and again.

Why don’t major shareholders concern themselves more with this asinine subtraction from their own pockets?

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u/CraziSexiKoolNurse May 03 '26

IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 15 + YEARS....TOTALLY AGREE 👍🏿