The Trouble With CEO Pay in Canada

Hugh Mackenzie, researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, gives you the dirt on the growing income gap between Canada's very rich and the rest of us. Visit the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives here: http://policyalternatives.ca

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• CEO
• growing gap
• inequality
• income
• Canada
• CCPA
• Hugh Mackenzie
• The Inequality Project

[AdamantEthos]

CEO pay makes me sick.

[JoannaCaplan7]

Great video, to the point and necessary. we need more like this!

[antuerius]

The cost of the moral and cultural deflation related to the presence of this order of inequality is now palpable in light of the utterly criminal extortion mobilized by the international banking system. A systematic clawback of corporate, and ecclesiastical, tax assistance, income caps, electoral and land reform, nationalizations of hard asset industries and full sovereignty of currency systems.

[BarelyScientist]

CEO pay is the carrot that keep the show running for high end administration. Humans dont achieve for the sake of achieving, they do it when it matters to them. Plenty of reason to achieve, but money is the most commonly used carrot.

[robbb661]

Earth to Communism.......CEO are running private companies not State own companies...........These companies are PRVATE

[Superlativesweetie]

@DANJULLMANN44 The argument that work for x entails entitlement to x presumes that the "work" and x are proportionate, and that's precisely what's at issue. Consider the trend of discrepency in men's and women's wages. They say that women earn 71 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job. Is he overpaid or is she underpaid? Either way, the idea that compensation is necessarily fair if resulting from market mechanisms doesn't account for this inherently unfair feature of labour.

[Superlativesweetie]

@DANJULLMANN44 Violence? Fair taxation... And as I mentioned in various other comments, we bear much of the onus by using our purchasing power to invest in options that amount to equity - local produce, smaller and diversified/specialised businesses, etc. Income caps might be another option, and then it wouldn't be a question of taking money away, it would just be a question of limiting the money they can appropriate in the first place to reflect what's fair for the rest of Canada.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@Superlativesweetie justy their having it ????? justify to whom ?? They earned it. Therefore does not have to be justified.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@Superlativesweetie So take somebody else's money and redistribute to other people. Use the full power of the state, violence, to take their money and use in a manner YOU feel is more beneficial. Despite all the evidence that Karl's philosophy does not work and only brings poverty and misery to all, in addition to crushing freedom, people still follow his ideology. Insane.

[DANJULLMANN44]

So Hugh what do you propose? How would you ensure that we are all equal? What about high paid Hockey players? They play a game and they get to make all that money. No fair !! Maybe we tax the top 100 CEO’s at 97% and use the tax money to cut a check to every citizen that makes an average pay check. Then we would have a utopia!! I am with you. I am envious of these do nothing CEOs. Off with their heads.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@AdamantEthos Why ?? How does this affect you ?