For those that don’t know what the French above said:

Vive le roi = long live the king

Vive la révolution = long live the revolution

Yes, but it’s under inflation every year so real wages are still going down. Yet somehow the C-suite can afford to give themselves raises above inflation, even while grumbling about funding and cutting positions left and right. Weird how that works.

Oh good, I’m sure this will be covered in my annual “merit increase” that’s not called a Cost of Living Adjustment because it doesn’t actually adjust for cost of living.