No one person deserves that pay package.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
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Nice cover photo. At least he looks grateful for his better part of a billion in blood money.
It's not Google problem, it's problem of people that work for Google. They create the system that allows that.
Fucking banchode.
wasnt he in the epstein files a bunch?
#EatTheRich
Billionaires should not exist. They are like nuclear weapons and should be treated as such. Treaties should be made to mitigate their damage.
Normal people fantasize about winning the lottery and having a few million mostly so that they can stop participating in the rat race, quit their job, have more time for creativity, have more time for family, have more time to be human. The fact that these people blow past that, and continue to want to hoard wealth shows how sick they actually are. If they were hoarding literally anything else nobody would question it. They do not work harder than everyone else.
To make it even worse, a lot (all?) Of that wealth is not even real. So they're hoarding imaginary wealth which they use to keep everyone else from having real material security. The whole system is screwed and we just let it happen. Its quite depressing.
Truth nuke, real
Truth Sparkler
That would be a great idea. Imagine a group of countries who get together and decide to coordinate economic policies, like NATO but rather than military action, and it focuses on the internal distribution of resources. They could perhaps do a much better job precisely targeting individuals with sanctions, and would perhaps be a much better wielder of the “tariff” in any kind of weaponized fashion.
Makes s nse as Google is the shittiest it has ever been.
Google got rid of thousands of employees in the last 5 years and this asshole gets half a billion dollars...
Yes, that's a part of why he's getting it.
It's almost like capitalism is a problem.
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
A creature of McKinsey.
The Mayor Pete of Silicon Valley
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.
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)
Why does he need 60x life savings?
My problem is how do I get people 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Wondering what's fueling the AI bubble? Spoiler: it's not company profits. It's this.
Has he hit his FIRE number yet?
Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.
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).
Yes, I have! Jesus and the money changers, Moses and the golden calf, easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, money is the root of all evil- I can go on forever.
My belief is that Man being cast out of paradise is a story of the break between nomadic and sedentary life, because we were able to live in purity and harmony with the world as it were, in plenty and only using what we needed, and wanted for nothing- and what is the first thing that happens after Man is cast out? Man lives in a hut and is toiling and plowing the soil, followed by a long list of kings, one more brutal than the next.
The accumulation of wealth is the root of evil.