Welcome to
Get To Know Your CEO.
Wealth inequality is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. The concentration of wealth affects individuals and communities in numerous ways. Wealth inequality restricts access to education, healthcare, technology, and the ability to generate income, trapping people in a cycle of disadvantage. As a result, it limits opportunities and social mobility – the chance of moving up.
—From the Wealth Inequality Initiative—https://www.wealth-inequality.net/about-wealth-inequality
It is the belief of the author of this website that the disparities in income and wealth in the US and elsewhere are possibly the main source of many of the economic, political and social problems that exist today. This website is meant to be a source for articles and stories from disparate sources to keep you up to date on the state of the economy and the state of the disparities in wealth in the USA and elsewhere. Links to and sources of articles will be provided to give you the most wide ranging information available here in on place.
Below is a poster created by the author and artist Christopher Engel as part of an Art project in the early nineties when the ratio of earnings between the average US CEO and the average Worker was a mere 110 to 1. The current ratio is about 390 to 1 down from 431 to 1 in 2007. Today the income of the top 100 corporate CEOs is 632 times the average US worker.
This graphic work represents the income disparity in 1990, back then the average US CEO made only 107 times what the average US worker made. That is $2,918,000 to $27,271. By 2007 The average CEO made 431 times what the average US worker took made.
The line of figures that come up to the sole of the big shoe represents the average US worker for 1990. The largest figure, of course, is the American CEO. The other large figures represent the German, Japanese, French and British counterparts for that same year.
This graphic image was created by Christopher Engel in 1992 as part of an Art Project centered around startling economic statistics the artist became aware of as a result of reading an important book by conservative economist and political commentator Kevin Phillips. This website, created by Christopher Engel is an extension of that Art Project.
The 72 pages are perforated and meant to be torn out and put together to make a 9′ tall graphic.