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‘No defensible argument’: Anger boils over at CEO pay
(www.politico.com)
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This is really the problem. No one can convince me that being a CEO is 1400% more difficult now.
Have to make sure you let people know that liberals are all socialists and hate capitalism
Presentation of that math does. I'd wager you could take one or two off years in that trend and say "look! No increase. Y'all are worried about nothing."
Believe me, I'm extremely fuckin' aware. The guy above me said math isn't political. And that's true. But the presentation of the results is, however. The "left leaning" specification helps show who's presenting the data, as opposed to a right, corporate, or other spin on the presentation.
Companies, hell whole industries, regularly misrepresent data to make a point and further that gap, or otherwise increase profits, etc.
Also it seems like the definition of "executive compensation" is ambiguous and could be calculated in different ways. So the data could differ too.
Had the shower-thought today: there are not enough reports of CEO suicides. Like, I assume the thing they’ll tell you about their job is that it’s hard to handle the stress of holding so many people’s livelihoods in your hands. But I don’t ever see CEOs getting fired for too many layoffs, and when they do get fired it kinda doesn’t matter because they’re so rich it doesn’t matter much. If it were true that it’s a difficult thing to handle, in any way that at all relates to the working class struggle, you think it’d have a high suicide rate. But it doesn’t…
Jobs aren't paid based on how difficult or stressful they are
Retail in a nutshell. Get treated like shit but if you dare say something that could possibly be considered even mildly offensive, let alone stand up for yourself then you're the bad guy and get all the blame.
So glad I got out of that, everyone should have to work retail for at least half a year to develop a bit of empathy. The bullshit you have to put up with on a near daily basis for poverty wages is fucking abysmal.
Well they're certainly not based on what value they bring, either, except maybe to themselves and the ever-useless shareholders.
If the people paying did not believe they were getting their money's worth, they would stop paying that much. The problem is, the ceiling is set by whoever can realistically pay the most.
My entire point is that CEOs are obviously overvalued, due to the ability of extremely large firms to pay exorbitant salaries via stock. This creates a negative ripple downstream that hurts a lot of smaller businesses.
No they wouldn't. They're the same people as get paid that much elsewhere. They have no incentive to lower the bar.
You're mixing up who is offering what
No, I'm not. Who do you imagine sets CEO pay?
Competing firms and to a lesser extent the CEOs themselves, all have input. It's a market.
It's nothing like a market. Who do you imagine the individuals are who set the CEOs pay, and how do you think their pay is decided?
Generally, but not always, the board will set a price range for CEOS. In smaller firms, the C-suite or President will, in some rarer cases the owner will have sole vote.
You seem to think CEOs dictate their own wages, which makes no sense. That's not how getting a job works.
Exactly
They're not incentivised to get the best value for money. They're setting the benchmarks by which their own pay is decided.
Is that why doctor are so under paid/s they aren't based on skill or education?
Doctors are highly paid because they are scarce. You'll note that surgeons in the UK, as an example, make about a third or less of what a US surgeon makes.
Our residency system, coincidentally, induces artificial scarcity of doctors