Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved

Re:Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is b... by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:53PM (#32843199)

The normal person knows that just having big paycheck does not make an executive more competent. We have all seen people with huge paychecks fail spectacularly.

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Re:Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is b... by themitigating on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:43PM (#32844460)

Are you saying there's no correlation between salary and performance?

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Re:Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is b... by fluoridation on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:39AM (#32848973)

There's no direct correlation, yes. If you took two executives (or really two people in any profession), one making 10x as much as the other, and swapped their positions, you would not see one position dropping to 10% performance and the other rising to 1000% performance. In all likelihood, they would both drop to 50-70% for a while and then stabilize to their original values.

Individual persons are not orders of magnitude more productive on their own, they're just in environments that allow them to be more productive, for example by giving them control over more resources.

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