Obviously, not being one, I'm a hate 'em kind of guy.

I read an article yesterday in the paper version of the Bangkok Post (19 Sept 2008) that said that 30 years ago, your typical CEO would earn $30-$40 for each dollar earned by ordinary workers. Last year, the average was $344 for each dollar earned by regular workers.

I'm earning about 45,000 Baht a month, and I'm a reasonably happy regular 9-5 wage slave. But I would be mightily pissed off to say the least if my boss was paying himself 344 times that amount, ie, 15,000,000 Baht a month. That would almost be enough to provoke thoughts of violence and revolution in my normally placid psyche.

What about you?


(My boss actually earns only 2-3 times my salary, by the way, so no need to reach for the carving knife yet).