BCBS CA revenue is approximately $25B. The total of above is $25.6M. That's 0.1%.
You may view those salaries as appropriate for leading companies of this size or immoral and outrageous. But either way executive comp is not the big problem with US healthcare costs.
Absolutely. This is a sign that the system is working. Amazon doesn't have a monopoloy on jobs that allows it to pay dramatically under market for warehouse workers.
Roofing especially in a hot climate is harder more demanding work than a warehouse job. And it pays considerably more.
I'm not saying their workplace is great. I'm just saying it's not directly tied to their success. They run large logistics warehouses. That's just hard physical labor where you're paid based on production. A great big portion of the food you eat is also picked under those conditions.
Are you suggesting that by winning in ecommerce and cloud computing they're gaining a monopoloy on jobs? Seems like a stretch.
There have always been and probably always will be unpleasant jobs. I watched 6 guys replace the roof of my neightbor's house yesterday in Houston. It was 100 degrees on the ground so I'd imagine it was intensely unpleasant working 8 hours on the ashphalt shingle roof. Does that make the roofing business exploitive? Should we all abandon our roofs?