CEOs get paid a ton, Mary Poppins makes almost none
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CEOs get paid a ton, Mary Poppins makes almost none
As the song goes, “Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!” That is, unless you’re getting paid the federal minimum wage like Mary Poppins.
Or, rather, Kristen Bell as Mary Poppins in a Funny or Die video poking fun at how difficult it is to live on $7.25 an hour:
Aside from lamenting that she has to buy her own birds (from Mexico, apparently), Poppins points out the irony of CEOs’ growing paychecks, while she can’t even live above the poverty line. Our own Paddy Hirsch has a video on this phenomenon. He doesn’t sing:
Can’t this British nanny catch a break? Or at least get a new umbrella?
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