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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:43AM (#18228865)
Preposterous. There's no feedback from the bottom line to executive salaries. No 'market rate'.
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by Bjartr on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:22AM (#18229104)
Market rate, as in what people are willing to pay to have a CEO
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:30AM (#18229162)
Or, what the executive suite pay one another in a mutual-check-writing club
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by Bjartr on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:44PM (#18251477)
The presence of perverse incentives don't make it a non-market.
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by mcguire on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:27AM (#18230132)
If by "people", you mean other CEOs, then yes.
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by Bjartr on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:43PM (#18251472)
I mean the people paying for CEOs, whoever they are, are the ones with a willingness to pay some amount, and that amount is the upper limit for CEO payment.
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by JoeAltmaier on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:21AM (#18274026)
That's boards, which is other CEOs from other companies. The mutual-check-writing club.
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