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If that pay didn't go to the CEO, who would get it? The shareholders. And who are the shareholders? The wealthiest 10% own almost 90% of stocks.
It's just a matter of time before people revolt, we went from something like 1:6 employee:employer comp ratio to 1:400 (and much more for a lot of companies, up to 1:5000+) If we could harvest energy from the hardcore early capitalist theorists rolling in their graves we'd have infinite energy at that point
If that pay didn't go to the CEO, who would get it? The shareholders. And who are the shareholders? The wealthiest 10% own almost 90% of stocks.
It's just a matter of time before people revolt, we went from something like 1:6 employee:employer comp ratio to 1:400 (and much more for a lot of companies, up to 1:5000+) If we could harvest energy from the hardcore early capitalist theorists rolling in their graves we'd have infinite energy at that point
> CEOs are getting ever-higher pay over time because of their power to set pay and because so much of their pay (more than 80%) is stock-relate This is the key to their high compensations, and in some ways it has to be like that because how else are you going to incentivize a CEO to raise the value of the company? Say a CEO was paid exactly what the engineers at a company were paid, it doesn't matter to him if the st…
It's just a matter of time before people revolt, we went from something like 1:6 employee:employer comp ratio to 1:400 (and much more for a lot of companies, up to 1:5000+) If we could harvest energy from the hardcore early capitalist theorists rolling in their graves we'd have infinite energy at that point
Populists have so far been able to focus all that anger at immigrants and LGBT people.
It's just a matter of time before people revolt, we went from something like 1:6 employee:employer comp ratio to 1:400 (and much more for a lot of companies, up to 1:5000+) If we could harvest energy from the hardcore early capitalist theorists rolling in their graves we'd have infinite energy at that point
Populists have so far been able to focus all that anger at immigrants and LGBT people.
After the 1% protests, media started publishing social justice articles to divide & conquer the population. The percentage of woke words like “racist”, “sexist” and “gender” rose rapidly!
If that pay didn't go to the CEO, who would get it? The shareholders. And who are the shareholders? The wealthiest 10% own almost 90% of stocks.
> CEOs are getting ever-higher pay over time because of their power to set pay and because so much of their pay (more than 80%) is stock-relate This is the key to their high compensations, and in some ways it has to be like that because how else are you going to incentivize a CEO to raise the value of the company? Say a CEO was paid exactly what the engineers at a company were paid, it doesn't matter to him if the st…
Damn, why did people create companies for the past 300 years ? Why did people become entrepreneur ? They didn't have anywhere close to 400 times their workers salary, must have been a miserable life What's the point of it all when you have enough money to sustain your entire genealogy tree from the birth of earth to the heat death of the universe ? These people are clinically ill
CEOs have a crucial impact on company and are paid in stocks.
Does this article and related figure accounts for all the failed startups CEOs whose stock turned out to be worthless?
If that pay didn't go to the CEO, who would get it? The shareholders. And who are the shareholders? The wealthiest 10% own almost 90% of stocks.
It could go to the people who produce the value in the first place: the workers.