Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212M CEO pay

Re:Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212... by dvt on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:14PM (#31522288)

The often-cited notion that a warehouse worker has even remotely the same responsibility as a company CEO is just straight-up fiction. Ergo, their jobs are incomparable.

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Re:Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212... by paulryanrogers on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:38PM (#31522507)

I'm not so sure. Stakes may be higher but feels like CEO performance doesn't correlate strongly to education, past experience, class, or anything really. So perhaps a random lottery--with some IQ floor--and lower pay would be a win-win for companies and workers.

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Re:Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212... by dvt on Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:17PM (#31522882)

> So perhaps a random lottery--with some IQ floor--and lower pay would be a win-win for companies and workers.

Do you think any shareholders would vote for such a strategy?

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Re:Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212... by paulryanrogers on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:03PM (#31525052)

My guess is corporations will fight any sane limits to their power and accumulation of wealth. And those at the top of corporations even more so. Which is why we have a government to balance the needs of the many against the consolidated power of the few who would exploit them

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