CEO TO TYPICAL WORKER COMPENSATION
In 2020, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 351-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 307-to-1 in 2019 and a big increase from 21-to-1 in 1965 and 61-to-1 in 1989. (https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20the%20ratio%20of,%2Dto%2D1%20in%201989.)
WAGE THEFT IS THE LARGEST THEFT OF ALL TIME
So not only are you not getting paid enough to begin with, even then, they will not always give you what you were told you would be paid.
TL;DW (https://youtu.be/cnh0Z51H87s?t=154)
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
Turns out, it most likely wasn't about paying too much tax, but instead, it was over a tax exemption that was to be given to The British East India Company that amounted as a bailout in a time when your average joe could actually spend time in jail for not paying their debt.
Below is an excerpt from David Cay Johnston's book The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind. Which is part of a trilogy of books he wrote about how corporations write laws to take money out of your pockets and put that money into their pockets. I can not recommend these books enough.
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else
