Fat Cat Friday should shatter the myth that Britain’s bosses deserve their pay | Owen Jones | Opinion

#Fat_Cat_Friday
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Fat Cat Friday should shatter the myth that Britain’s bosses deserve their pay | Owen Jones | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/04/fat-cat-friday-britain-bosses-pay-executives-worker

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Please raise a glass – if you’re not doing Dry January, of course – to our nation’s exceptionally talented CEOs and their superhuman work ethic and skills. For the average executive to have earned the equivalent of a worker’s average annual salary by 4 January is surely testament to an unimaginable amount of hard work and graft. They must truly deserve the 11% hike in their salaries since last year, unlike millions of good-for-nothing slackers like nurses and teachers who have endured years of stagnating pay.

It is worth taking a moment to absorb how great the gap now is between the worker and the boss. Top executives now earn 133 times more than the average worker; in 1998, the ratio was 47. The salary of the average FTSE chief executive is the same as that of 386 Britons on minimum wage combined. This in a country where workers have suffered the worst squeeze in wages for generations, where most Britons languishing in poverty are actually in work, where child poverty has increased at its fastest rate for three decades, and where one in every 200 people are classed as homeless or in inadequate homes. It is not a trend restricted to Britain, of course: US top bosses earn 312 times the average worker’s wage.

We are indoctrinated to believe that the booming paypackets of the boss class are down to their get-up-and-go, their innovation, their phenomenal hard work. This is used to justify and rationalise the explosion of inequality, not as evidence of an utterly broken social and economic model, but as just desserts.

Quant à #cod_statistics, j’imagine qu’il faut prendre au pied de la lettre : statistiques de morue …

Il y a bien des COD statistics ou encore CoD statistics, mais avec des capitales ; habituellement Causes of Death statistics, plus rarement, Cooccurences of Disorders statistics.

Le communiqué de l’Adam Smith Institute n’en dit pas plus, même s’il permet de bien comprendre pourquoi il ne faut pas mettre de bornes aux rémunérations des grands chefs à plumes.
#Sky's_the_limit …

Fat Cat Cod Stats Won’t Help Workers — Adam Smith Institute
▻https://www.adamsmith.org/news/fat-cat-cod-stats-wont-help-workers

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The High Pay Centre and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) have declared today to be “Fat Cat Friday”.

Matthew Lesh, Head of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, commented:
“Another year, another set of cod statistics on executive pay. If these activist organisations actually cared about workers — and not just the politics of envy against our best and brightest — they would talk about ways to actually increase worker pay.”

“The only way to increase wages is by boosting productivity through innovation, cutting red tape, and making it easier for people to move for jobs.”

“In a global market for CEOs, British firms must be able to compete for top CEOs who provide immense value to companies. Decisions made by Britain’s makers and doers now have global impacts and their value to firms reflects this.”

“Limits on executive pay would drive top British talent and companies offshore, ultimately leading to fewer jobs and lower pay for workers.”

C’est plus une dérivation de codswallop ("âneries, bobards") ou cod ("faux, imitation", rarement usité)

ah @merci !
jamais lu ou entendu.