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Originally Posted by Azure
Whose to say a lot of other people making outlandish 'salaries' are not doing the same thing?
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Your original example was "What about Bill Gates, he's done a lot of good!", which is a non sequitur because Bill Gates being a CEO had very little to do with the wealth he is now voluntarily redistributing. I don't know that CEOs do give a disproportionate amount of their wealth away: maybe they do, maybe they don't. I also don't know that "who is to say?" is supposed to be an argument, which it really isn't.
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Originally Posted by Azure
I find it a bit strange that there are so many complaints about ridiculous CEO pay while in fact it has been pointed out in this thread that average CEO pay is not THAT crazy.
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I find it a bit strange that all the people who complain about overpaid union and government workers who don't "deserve" their inflated pay aren't equally annoyed with executives being grossly overpaid for their contribution. Why does a fair wage only apply to the middle class?
Again, these are EMPLOYEES we are talking about. Employees whose contributions are difficult to quantiry, but for whom the vast preponderance of evidence is that the contribution is negligible or non-existent. I've yet to see a convincing argument in favour of their wages being fair, just that they don't seem too unfair. What an amazing endorsement.