@ChrisMayLA6 I find it increasingly hard to tell my kids (and meant it) that if they study hard and work hard they can get the lifestyle they dream of.

At my old company (quite a well known brand) the regular staff achieving the highest (superstar) performance rating got a lower %age pay rise and bonus than the lowest (E.g. not going their job) performance rating at board level.

The hard work gets rewarded myth well and truly busted. Apparently though, it was fair because "industry standard"

@ChrisMayLA6 I find it increasingly hard to tell my kids (and meant it) that if they study hard and work hard they can get the lifestyle they dream of.

At my old company (quite a well known brand) the regular staff achieving the highest (superstar) performance rating got a lower %age pay rise and bonus than the lowest (E.g. not going their job) performance rating at board level.

The hard work gets rewarded myth well and truly busted. Apparently though, it was fair because "industry standard"

@ChrisMayLA6

They need to try harder:

“Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs earned the equivalent of an average worker’s annual salary by 9:23 a.m. on the first working day of 2026, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.”

https://hrnewscanada.com/canadas-top-ceos-earned-what-average-workers-make-in-a-year-by-923-a-m-on-jan-2/

@ChrisMayLA6 The verb you are searching for is ‘taken’. Or perhaps ‘extracted’. Earning doesn’t come into it.