Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says

Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by jedberg on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:21AM (#9770321)

So if you spend 10 years building a company and then sell it for 10 million, you think that you should only get to keep 1 million(ish)?

The only way to make a long term gains tax fair is to allow you to spread it out over the time it took you to make the gain. And even then it isn't really fair.

If you make a company and sell it in three years for 50 million, why is it fair that you only keep 5 million?

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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by quadrangle on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:01AM (#9771599)

The only way to answer questions like this are by first asking our goals. Is our goal to let successful business leaders become ludicrously wealthy while externalizing much of the risk? Is our goal to have a system where the natural luck of the system creates lottery-style winners and losers and let that be? Or is our goal to have a maximally productive and healthy society?

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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by crdoconnor on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:45AM (#9770398)

>So if you spend 10 years building a company and then sell it for 10 million, you think that you should only get to keep 1 million(ish)?

Of course. By the time you're selling it, most of the actual value is being created by people beneath you.

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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by landryraccoon on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:09PM (#9773779)

Wait what? Two friends of mine sold a company for $10M last year, that was like them and 4 other employees, and the (technical) founders easily did more than half the work..

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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by odonnellryan on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:49AM (#9770413)

How much money did you make during that process?

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