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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by wott on Friday September 30, 2016 @02:41PM (#12614377)
Yes, please. In 3 weeks, I can do whatever and still earn enough money to retire before the end of October 2016.

And while we're talking about shoes, a good shoe-seller could do the job of about any CEO in those huge companies. Would be harder in a small one, though.

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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by blahi on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:09PM (#12614968)
How would you feel if somebody who saw what programmers do only on TV tells you "A very highly trained monkey can do what you do - type on a keyboard." Because that's what programmers do, isn't it?
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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by kd0amg on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:06PM (#12615766)
One might offer to sit them down at the computer for a while and see what they accomplish. The skeptic can probably even provide his own computer. Most people don't have a large corporation they can just casually make themselves CEO of in order to prove a point.
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