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If you're cynical about #Capitalism but still focused on absurd income disparity between CEOs & low-level employees, you're still missing the point.

Is that disparity unjust? Yes, but it's a distraction. The CEO is still technically a #labor position, albeit one unfairly compensated at the top of an unjust hierarchy.

CEOs, though, are not the root of the problem.

Shareholders are the problem. Shareholders are the owners of the company (Capital, hence Capitalism). They are the ones exploiting the workers by profiting off of their labor while the shareholders (Capitalists) do absolutely nothing. The CEO is just there to make sure that profits maintain as high as possible, including by squeezing every possible ounce of profit from the employees, for which they are rewarded handsomely.

Focusing on the CEO is a tactic to prevent you from recognizing who is actually exploiting you and from gaining class consciousness.

It prevents you from organizing against the source of the problem.