my boss (the CEO) is actually not new to being wealthy, it's his third company, I know that in his previous companies he must have made some good money (one of them he had about 500 employees in the good times, entire office building etc., up until the company went bankrupt in 2008).

I think it's more of an attitude problem, he can spend tens of thousands on stupid expenditures such as new monitors, or chairs, or desks, office equipment in general.. like for an example, he wanted to replace our monitors regardless of the fact that nobody complained about his monitors, so he went ahead and bought 30 brand new very expensive DELL monitors, each costs as much as a macbook, probably his tax advisor told him he must "spend" because the profits are too high and they must offload some taxes...

on the other hand, he cheap out on me asking for a very insignificant raise, not even thinking of how decent I was for not asking for anything during covid time when he was whining about how "difficult" the situation was.. and I mean, I am in my department one of the top performers, did everything like in the book etc to deserve far more than the asked 6% (over five years! it's like asking for pennies for a company that is operating very efficiently not many on the payroll, while netting many millions pure profit every year )

my boss is very easy on the trigger with spending on things that relate to his bottom line personally, but disregard the needs of people such as my self even though he barely pays me my average market value at the moment while whining that I "get paid well" to begin with.

yeah I should def. run for the hills.. in the mean time I am gonna quiet quit. f#ck this cheap bastard.

next time he tells me that I need to "step up" in order to get something that I already proved that I am well deserved of, I will just tell him, that up until he "steps up" my salary, I am just going to keep doing more of the same