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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by QuantumRoar on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:08AM (#9770281)
Switzerland publicly voted on a strict 12x salary limit for CEOs compared to junior employees. The proposal was rejected after 65% of voters opposed it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-24/swiss-vote...

The article also says that the same law (with public voting) would have had a much larger success rate in Germany where apparently three quarters of the population would vote in favor.

I wonder how such a public vote would turn out in the USA.

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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by fapjacks on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:59AM (#9770446)
If it were up to the actual voters, I believe it would pass. But there is no way in hell any more than a small handful of American politicians would vote for this.
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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by cft on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:29AM (#9770349)
This has also been tried in the USSR. The economic success of such a measure is evident.
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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by gjm11 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:43AM (#9770386)
Yeah, there was definitely nothing else different in the USSR that might also make affect economic success. Apart from how they paid their CEOs, they were just like the USA.
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