• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    He voluntarily cut his salary in half. That’s more along the lines of taking responsibility than shoring up the company. CEO pay is a tiny percentage of revenue, despite what lemmy thinks. To make a serious dent, pay would have to be cut across all the C suite, and much deeper.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      4 hours ago

      CEO pay is a tiny percentage of revenue, despite what lemmy thinks

      It is the most obvious symptom of the problem, that’s for sure, no wonder it’s the most targeted

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        3 hours ago

        Every thread where you see “ceo of failing company gets $3M bonus” followed by “those workers could have used that” ignores the fact that there are so many employees that, divided evenly, it’s never more than $5, and frequently less than a dollar.

        Yes, that’s technically better than nothing. And I agree the CEO doesn’t deserve a bonus if their company is failing. But focusing on this is missing the bigger picture of the lack of workers’ rights in America, and paints a target on the wrong people (CEOs instead of the government).