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Re:What do executives do, anyway? by ryandrake on Saturday September 28, 2019 @08:54AM (#21100052)
Instead of capping (which people for whatever reason don't seem to like) why not propose a lower bound for regular employees of 1/100th of the CEO's total compensation?

CEO wants to make $20M? Nobody in the company can make less than $200k. Seems fair to me.

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Re:What do executives do, anyway? by JoshuaDavid on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:11AM (#21116163)
> CEO wants to make $20M? Nobody in the company can make less than $200k. Seems fair to me.

This seems likely to result in a situation where any work that can be is performed by external contractors not "in the company". Unfortunately, it's very hard (or maybe impossible) to legislate what things should cost.

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Re:What do executives do, anyway? by natalyarostova on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:34AM (#21111801)
Why do you think the operation of a complex decentralized economic system would be improved for workers if it operated according to some rules that you think are fair?
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Re:What do executives do, anyway? by ClumsyPilot on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:34PM (#21110351)
I agree, except I would prefer we use median or mode compensation. It would probably paint a fairer picture. But debatable.
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