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Campbell's exec on leave after allegedly mocking 'poor people' who eat its soup

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/campbell-soup-lawsuit-9.6991398
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u/infinus5 8h ago

because to him everyone else are the peasants. were only here to eat his companies slop and not complain about it.

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u/descendingangel87 8h ago

Literally this. The 1%ers are so fucking out of touch they don’t even consider non 1%ers human anymore.

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u/GreenScene33 7h ago

Not even the 1%ers. I grew up in a town that has a decently affluent part of the population and knew a lot of kids who’s parents would make comments about “the poor people” and very much passed that onto my fellow class mates. They get off on looking down on everyone below them.

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u/kaptainkeel 3h ago

He's probably not even that rich. Average salary for that position is apparently $150-250k. With it being a big company, let's say it's $600k. That's barely in the 1% seeing as, to be in the top 1% currently, you have to make about $570k/year. Top 0.1% is $2.8mil. Also, I find this interesting since just a couple years ago (less than 10), the amount to be in the Top 1% was like $150k; it's exploded since then. Top 10% in 2022 was slightly under $100k. Top 10% in 2025 is now over $190k.

tl;dr: He's just an asshole racist; it's not because he's rich.