Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦
@charette@mstdn.ca
Single dad, C++17 (or newer) developer, French speaker, English writer, Canadian, ex-Québecer, génération Passe-Partout, Ubuntu user, computer vision, neural networks, maintainer of the Darknet/YOLO codebase. 329.53 ppm CO₂. Looking for people to chat with. Or people to bike with. CISHET. https://ccoderun.ca/stephane/ West coast of Canada (BC), PST/PDT. 🇨🇦 Neurodivergent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity#Neurodivergent
mstdn.ca
Someone I know after working for a big grocery store for 14 years was happy to tell me they make $1 over the minimum wage.
They can only be scheduled for 24 hours per week. I suspect if they got scheduled for 40 hours the company would have to pay them benefits.
The company they work for is public. Looking up the CEO, he gets paid ~$12.6M per year. While the employees are making basically minimum wage, which is $18.25/hour in BC.
The CEO pays himself more than $8000/hour. He makes over $64,000 in a single 8-hour day, more than the employees make in an entire year.
I don't care who you are, no amount of work you do could possibly be worth this much over your employees. This is wage theft, and when combined with all the executives of the company, artificially increases the cost of products sold in the stores for all Canadians.
Tax. The. Rich.
#WealthInequality #Corruption #TaxTheRich
