They compare top 500 CEOs (S&P 500) vs average worker. How about comparing apples to apples? What's the compensation of an average CEO from some random small company?
Also total compensation is misleading measure, it's not money on the table. Often just stock options that may or may not vest in future.
I've been using MacBook Pro with various Linux laptops in parallel for couple of years. Apple hardware and design are indeed exceptional. Great HDPI screen, awesome trackpad, like the keyboard despite all negative rumors.
But when I was looking for another laptop recently, I obviously ditched Apple and picked ThinkPad instead for following reasons:
Only two USB-C ports, in fact only one usable since the other one is occupied by charger. Compare that to ThinkPad having multiple USB-A and USB-C, full HDMI, SD card reader, even Ethernet and docking station. Not sure how Apple can be considered for professional use.
MacOS is not great. I've been using all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and I miss package manager the most in MacOS. It takes a couple of clicks (or a single command (`apt-get install`) to install trusted software on Linux. In MacOS world it's still pretty normal to visit a random website a download unverified DMG installer. That's like being stuck in 90s and I feel very unsafe doing that.
FATCA sucks, cannot believe EU accepted something like that into the legislation.
Recently, one of the banks in EU falsely flagged me as a potential US citizen. I had to file tons of forms to opt out.
I couldn't figure out why, there was no reason for that since I've got no ties with US and I've visited as tourist only couple of times. Then I realized my phone number I used in communication with the bank is Canadian (live in Canada, but EU citizen). Please note that the country code for Canada and US is the same (+1). What a joke.
The problem is the EU banks are forced to be compliant with this thing, but they have no clue who is US citizen and who is not. So they can just guess.
They compare top 500 CEOs (S&P 500) vs average worker. How about comparing apples to apples? What's the compensation of an average CEO from some random small company?
Also total compensation is misleading measure, it's not money on the table. Often just stock options that may or may not vest in future.