Impish4249<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@maddad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maddad</span></a></span> </p><p>I really hate that thought but it's hard to refute.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> total pay as a multiple of frontline worker pay is insanely high. When workers complain they're told to cut back on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/avocadotoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avocadotoast</span></a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/minimumwage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimumwage</span></a> that let my divorced mother raise 2 sons in a 2 bedroom house will barely keep a single person in a studio apartment.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a> is at a high and now, in many places, being unhomed is, effectively, illegal.</p><p>To say that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> is the problem is overly kind.</p>