Is that how it works with companies that are publicly traded on the stock market? It seems possible Toyota has more American owners than Ford based on who holds the stock. I haven't checked into the financial details of either company but assuming an owner gets some profit doesn't really make sense to me.
Toyota's net income for the last fiscal year was 2.2 trillion, and their CEO was paid $1.9M in direct compensation.
I'd bet he had bonuses and stocks to pad that...in 2016 when I worked for Ingersoll Rand their CEO had about $20M in total compensation.
Either way, it's negligible against 2.2T. I'm with you...the fat cats at the top, even though they're making money almost incomprehensible to most of us, aren't even close to the bulk of where the money ends up. Whatever country has the most stockholders is where most of Toyota's profits are ending up, but their revenue the same year was $27.2T, meaning they spent $25T. There will be payroll in that, so where their facilities are located matters, but at that level of manufacturing, assembly labor is less than 10% of total cost, so most of it's going into the parts they're buying. So then you'd have to know where all their suppliers are to know where the profit went on that $25T.
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