Just fyi, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark, Michael D. Hsu, earns $15.5 million per year, whereas warehouse workers typically earn about $50k a year, that’s about 0.33% or 300 times less.
Kimberly-Clark made $2 billion profit in 2025. Yep, that’s $2 billion profit AFTER they have paid all the salaries, including CEOs.
They clearly don’t make enough money to pay fair wages. No one ever thinks of the shareholders, smh…
Just fyi, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark, Michael D. Hsu, earns per year, whereas warehouse workers typically earn about $50k a year, that’s about 0.33% or 300 times less.
What a role reversal.
He doesn’t earn $15.5 million a year, he gets paid $15.5 million a year.
Poor CEO!!!
Yes. That it is an important distinction especially with the american tax system which is known for not benefitting the wealthy and redistributing wealth across all social classes, allowing the United States to funnel more money into welfare for the greater common good.
Why don’t we focus on some real issues instead?
its probably brutal full time schedules too
For those yelling about Unions being better than what this guy did:
Unions were always the compromise. We’ve watched as corporations fight tooth and nail against unions, even closing locations and laying people off to quash them. Our union protections in the US are pathetically weak, especially with the current regime.
Workers used to get beaten and threatened when they tried to advocate for better conditions. Eventually workers would start burning down their workplaces like this guy. In extreme cases they would kill the factory owner or foreman. If the conditions are unbearable and voices aren’t being heard, people will get desperate and do unthinkable things.
For their sake, let’s hope the business and corporate types remember this before the bread or circuses run out.
They’ve already run out.
Yep. The alternative to no unions or worker’s rights is people dragging Jeff Bezos out of his mansion, beating him to death in front of his family, and then burning the house down.
People need to plan en mass if they want to scare these psychopathic billionaires properly. Took 30k Dubliners burning down the British embassy to drive out the British in Ireland.
A Reign of Terror redux would be … um … yeah, I’d be ok with that
Yeah unions are a better deal for everyone. I hope the business owners come around to that as workers acting on discontent increases
For their sake, let’s hope the business and corporate types remember this before the bread or circuses run out.
They do, and they will try and do just enough to not get killed.
We get the crumbs, while they get the whole pie.
paying a living wage is cheaper than trying to quell a labor uprising.
Not this quarter it isn’t! (Until it suddenly is.)
CEOs are not smart people
You cant become smart if all you do is partying and traveling
they legislate laws to weaken labor protections and pay instead of the “pinkertons”:
This is what they learned after the rise of unions. Unionization was the compromise they made to stop angry workers dragging owners into the streets and beating them to a pulp. They’ve forgotten those lessons.
Most American firms would rather pay lawyers to fuck their employees over, than pay their employees more. Recreational Equipment Incorporated Co-operative are closing a flagship store in Manhattan rather than deal with a union.
America hates Americans.Holy crap, granted I haven’t deep researched them or anything but I always thought of REI as the granola-munching fun hiking kids cooperative kind of environment…
…friggin’ branding…bamboozled again.
Also cheaper than the loss of stock, rebuild costs, and loss of income while rebuilding a warehouse. Some of it will be insured, but not all.
Plus, their customers will go elsewhere while things rebuild.
Getting those customers back is no small task.
No one was harmed and he got his point across. Keep up the good fight Americans, show them how much youre suffering under this regime and dont let the corporations/billionaires win
Best book and movie ever.
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
Even comments-section of fox news was supporting it. Well, mainly calling it a fire-insurance scam, but I think conspiracy theories are how fascists express their love?
Well, mainly calling it a fire-insurance scam
Wildfires are antifa, but when someone actually does commit arson for class war reasons, it’s an insurance scam? What a bizarre psychosis.
In my experience conspiracy theorists tend to be rather mundane with shit like this, why that is is problematic up for debate but I assume it’s some fucked up version of Occam’s Razor with an absurdity modifier based off of scale or potential scale.
No one was physically harmed, but there was financial harm. I wonder how many people lost their job due to the fire and now can’t pay their bills. The town only has 3k people, so I wonder how much of that population worked there.
Are you an agent
Funny how people barely scraping by with peanut wages is “Well we all have to just suck it up for the sake of the economy.” (Thatcher/Reagan types love to use this ‘take your medicine’ analogy.)
…but burning down a corporate warehouse is also “Oh no. Now those workers can’t work for peanuts. :(”
Almost like the power dynamic here is ridiculously askew and the company never feels the hurt.
At least one direction here has a chance of actually shifting the balance, and that direction surely isn’t
“Clock in day after day, say ‘yes, boss’, and hope for the best.”
they were barely paid enough anyways, it isnt a lost to the workers. and warehouse job isnt exactly a career for people, not even long term or part time. they f’ around enough witht the hours to prevent that, and injuries are quite frequent in these jobs.
Oh no, think of the poor capitalists. They might get mad and stop giving us their crumbs!
Get their meals, eat the rich!
The hard working warehouse employees will be receiving unemployment. They just got several weeks of PTO.
The demolition and reconstruction is new work that will be going on for the next few years.
The warehouse was burned down because they weren’t paid enough on the first place.
Either someone with some foresight gets ahead of the problem and starts paying people enough to live, cancelling debts, etc., or there’s now ~1-200 more people with little left to lose and the fires will spread.
I know solidarity is unheard of in the US, but this is something that often builds it out of necessity if nothing else.
financial harm
Ah, the type of harm that’s the easiest to manage. Can’t really blame this dude for the harm capitalism causes after the fact via suppression of basic social safety nets.
Corporate fire-insurance will cover their paycheck so what are you on about?
Insurance will cover most of it. And there will be more jobs as things are cleaned up and rebuilt.
If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.
Are you talking about Flight 93?or?
I know they said we’d never forget but I don’t know what you are talking about that is specific to 9/11.
Timothy Mcveigh showed us that in 1995. The civilian deaths were terrible but turns out he was sorta right all along
“Look, America is founded on free enterprise and capitalism,” said Bill Essayli, the first assistant United States attorney for the central district of California, during the press conference. “Anyone who attacks our values, our way of life, our system, which provides the best goods and services to the most people, we’re gonna come after aggressively.”
What a thing to say.
I don’t think he’s right about America’s founding ideas. Free enterprise, maybe. But capitalism is a different beast, and only came to America much later. The young country’s first taste of real capitalism was the East India Company and their tea trading business. And look how they reacted to that.
I don’t think capitalism was what the USA’s founding fathers had in mind at all. I do think the linguistic conflation of “free market” with “capitalism” is an intentional large scale psy-op designed to make people forget that. And it’s working.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that commerce and capitalism are the same thing.
The US founding fathers only gave voting rights to men with capital. I think that maybe those rich slave owning genocide enthousiasts who revolted because they were being taxed to pay the wages of the soldiers that suffered permanent injuries to defend their property might have been cool with capitalism.
I was never great at history, but I seem to recall Alexander Hamilton being a big supporter of capitalism.
How’d things end for Alex?
first to get Luigied
“Our values” and “our way of life” sound so strange. Especially since “best goods and services” is a crock of shit. 😂
Those first two translate to me as “Remember I hate the same people you do, so it’s OK to struggle while I keep more money. I donate to Republicans, you know.”
Which provides the best goods and services to the most people
Those are human rights in other countries.
He’s saying their values are everyone’s values. “Our way of life” is trying to rally us to his side–“rally around the flag”–to divide us against ourselves. It works pretty well with MAGA, and they all know it.
I dont know what he’s even trying to say. He’s coming after employees that want to be paid more?
Those anticapitalist shitheads. They should be beaten with billyclubs and have their wages reduced for the pain and suffering they have caused their bosses.
I assume this is his internal monologue.
Hes a slaver
Yes. It’s an (unfortunately) empowered corporate scree. Pure retaliation slave owner bs, looking for blood.
How dare they demand a living wage? Why, it’s unAmerican!
All Property Matters!
They don’t give a fuck about people, but they do give a fuck about their assets.
And that’s why it’s perfectly acceptable to do whatever the fuck you want to these people’s assets. Burn it all to the ground if that’s your vibe.
No it wasn‘t.
Wareluigi
I was gonna riff off of “Warehouse Luigi” and say he’s “Waluigi” for short :P
A desperate and enraged man will not be reasonable.
FUCK YOU KIMBERLEY-CLARK. You’re a shitty employer.
This hurt the share price, for a day anyway…
Wow, the number of americans I respect and aren’t feeble whiny losers has just doubled!
You respect Americans?
Two of them now if you read the comment
The elevator didn’t go to the top floor with this one.
I don’t know about you all, but I didn’t see nothin’.
The tp factory guy was with me… uhh…. Yeah. Something like that
They should have paid him enough to live
What’s next? The wealth have to tremble in their yachts.
Burn the yachts lol
(Unironically. After all, who are the ones cleaning those things?)
Those mansions and bunkers and yachts and private jets all require a surprising amount of working class labor to maintain. Often dozens of employees. The distribution center in the OP only had 8 employees at the time of the fire, so it would be comparably safer!
Only 8 employees for something that was just reported as half a billion in loss?
Damn did they have it coming lmfao
Who, while surrounded by wealth, are probably paid very poorly. wealthy gotta wealth.
And, in their bunkers, and on their islands, and hopefully first in their boardrooms. I wonder what they’re saying to each other.
Very thin line between “I’m safe in my bunker” and “I’m trapped in my bunker.”
“we cannot get out: the end comes soon we hear drums drums in the deep. They are coming”
Anyone want to cowrite the movie that jumps to mind off this person’s excellent quote?
To be safe, it should be a fairly thick line… of concrete.
He could have done this good deed and gotten away with it if only he just shut the fuck up but he had to flap his gums.
The article mentions surveillance video of him lighting a fire so probably not haha.
There were ~65000 arson offenses in 2024 with 6% as “other” which I’m interpreting as businesses, warehouses, etc. similar to this one. Which gives a high estimate of ~4000 events similar to his per year.
We are all hearing his story because he ‘flapped his gums’ and we aren’t hearing about the other 3999.
A true martyr
