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That kind of lazy thinking drives me up the wall. There's a huge swatch of America that thinks elementary school teachers are bringing home FAT BUCKS because college tuition costs are high.

It's the corporations, stupid.

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Absolutely. I used the number of administrative personal * administrative salaries because it's a quick mental visualization. I just reviewed United Healthcare's 2022 10k. In 2022, they had $324B in revenue, and paid $210B in medical expenses. Of the $114B remaining, $85.5B was various operating costs, $28.5B (25%) was corporate profit / operating income (before interest & taxes). Even if all 40,000 employees of UnitedHealth Group were making 200k (they're not), that'd only account for $8B of their $85.5B in non-medical costs. https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/invest...

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