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Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout by MikeLumos on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:50AM (#28326621)
People are not paid based on what they need, they're paid based on value they provide (and other things, like how difficult they are to replace).
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Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout by inetknght on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:09AM (#28327341)
> People are not paid based on what they need, they're paid based on value they provide

If that were true then he'd be paid far less. Tim Cook does not provide value to Apple to the tune of billions of dollars. The people who work for Apple do.

> how difficult they are to replace

What would be difficult about replacing Tim Cook?

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Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout by ZephyrBlu on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:58AM (#28327870)
Elsewhere in this post people have said that his compensation is 0.03% of Apple's market cap.

It would not be hard to believe that Tim Cook's decisions had a larger impact than that on Apple's market cap because he has extremely high leverage as the CEO.

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