{"id":10280,"date":"2026-04-02T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=10280"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:59:41","slug":"why-corporations-pay-millions-for-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/why-corporations-pay-millions-for-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Corporations Pay Millions For Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can listen or read<a href=\"https:\/\/jimhightower.substack.com\/p\/why-corporations-pay-millions-for\"> Why Corporations Pay Millions For Mediocrity<\/a> by Jim Hightower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because\u2026 well, because it is!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>With their hired armies of lawmakers, lobbyists, lawyers, and the like, they fix the economic rules so even-more of society\u2019s money and power flows uphill to them. Take corporate CEOs. While the economy somewhere between a downer and devastating for most people, the CEO class made out like bandits, with each of the three top paid corporate honchos pocketing as much as a billion dollars in personal pay!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-signpost-1274229_1280-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-signpost-1274229_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-signpost-1274229_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-signpost-1274229_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-signpost-1274229_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/geralt-9301\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1274229\">Gerd Altmann<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1274229\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can listen or read Why Corporations Pay Millions For Mediocrity by Jim Hightower. Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because\u2026 well, because it is! With their hired armies of lawmakers, lobbyists, lawyers, and the like, they fix the economic rules so even-more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10282,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions\/10282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}