Avengers: Endgame is breaking records and making tens of millions at the box office as Americans come out in droves to see it. However, in spite of the movie’s success, not everyone is thrilled.
2020 Democrat hopeful and Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke out earlier this week about the success of Avengers: Endgame and how he believes Disney ought to spend their profits.
Sanders on ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Success
On Monday, Sanders publically stated that Disney’s profits from Avengers: Endgame ought to go towards higher wages for the corporation’s employees. The senator expressed this opinion in the following tweet:
What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million – over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes. https://t.co/NrcFSk4LZc
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 29, 2019
This is nothing new. Sanders, like many progressives, regularly slams big corporations for the earning disparities between CEOs and employees. In August of last year, Sanders praised Disney for boosting wages to $15/hr.
