Comcast And Other Companies Celebrate Net Neutrality Death With $1,000 Employee Bonuses

It might be a bit difficult to find someone who disagrees that giving employees bonuses who work hard for a company is anything but a good thing. However, leave it to internet service providers to taint even this simple concept that is nearly universally liked. In a disgusting show of revelry, Comcast, AT&T, and other huge companies are giving their employees $1,000 in bonuses to celebrate the death of Net Neutrality and the huge tax cut that they just received.

This is one of those rare moments when two of the most despised government decisions come together and make one giant, steaming pile of contempt for the middle class and poor Americans. By any measure, the vast majority of U.S. voters overwhelming hate both the vote to repeal Net Neutrality as well as the tax cut that the Trump administration just passed.

That Comcast could actually announce the reasons for the bonus it is giving to its workers as both of those developments proves just how out of touch these carriers are with its consumers. In terms of the optics alone, hardly anyone can say that the carrier comes out of this as an ally of its customers. Then again, this has always been the case.

“Based on the passage of tax reform and the FCC's action on broadband, Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast NBCUniversal, announced that the Company would award special $1,000 bonuses to more than one hundred thousand eligible frontline and non-executive employees,” Comcast announced.

It’s not just Comcast either. AT&T is also giving away bonuses of the same amount to about 200,000 of its U.S. employees, Inverse reports, and these are just the carriers who are celebrating the demise of Net Neutrality. Many others are displaying unrestrained glee at the prospect of the richest Americans saving money while the poorest were basically handed a death sentence.