Submitted 1 day ago by FallenWalnut@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/google-just-gave-sundar-pichai-a-692m-pay-package/
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43990476
Your daily reminder that by supporting Big Tech, you are contributing to the insane wealth disparity.
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I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow’s enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.
That’s been proposed before. The next step was where they’ve lock in shareholders and investors and milk them dry, apparently with ridiculously large pay packages.
So what exactly does he do that’s worth $300,000/hr? Or let’s say he works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the whole year (and you know he does not), $190,000/hr?
He comes from a long line of nobility and these tech lands were promised to him as a dowry
Why does he need 60x live savings?
My problem is how do I get perk to stop using google.
I can open a business, but if I’m not on the monopoly search app, nobody will know.
I don’t use google anymore, but everyone else does, and no, they won’t migrate off gmail and Apple and Google don’t let you change your search provider. Google doesn’t even let you remove Google Search from pixel launcher.
Firefox lets you change your search provider, and it works on both PCs and Android.
Does it let you change other people’s search providers?
I replaced Pixel launcher with Lawnchair. Very similar UX but let’s you do things like set the search bar to just open your default browser.
You can change your default search on anything made by Apple
You can change your default search provider on any platform. The problem is no one actually does it, and Google is always the default, because they invest billions of dollars in that arrangement.
Yeah I opened a business as well but quickly realized it’s nearly impossible without capitulating to the monoliths that are modern advertising platforms from Meta and Google.
Lol, hopefully any Googlers happy with their $500k pay package stop and consider if Sundar is really worth 1,000 of them.
(Yes I know this is technically a 3-year pay package so it’s closer to ~450x a single $500k pay package)
wasnt he in the epstein files a bunch?
A creature of McKinsey.
The Mayor Pete of Silicon Valley
Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to the insane wealth disparity and wars all over the world.
Have you noticed how ancient religious texts like the Bible often heavily focus on financial themes, especially debt and inequality? This was long before capitalism existed. The existence of markets (capitalist or not) tends to lead to inequality. In fact, modern capitalist societies were the first to have the ability (though not necessarily the will…) to adequately address this issue using progressive taxation, as opposed to the older methods like the Jubilee, bans on usury, and later feudalism (all of which have severe drawbacks).
Wondering what’s fueling the AI bubble? Spoiler: it’s not company profits. It’s this.
Has he hit his FIRE number yet?
Makes s nse as Google is the shittiest it has ever been.
IllNess@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Google got rid of thousands of employees in the last 5 years and this asshole gets half a billion dollars…
joe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s almost like capitalism is a problem.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Yes, that’s a part of why he’s getting it.