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What makes CEO's worth their salaries? Mark Gisleson - 12:52pm May 6, 1997 PST (#71 of 90)
A fascinating range of comments here regarding CEO compensation. As a resume writer with over 5500 clients on file, I think have a little insight into this process (it's amazing what you learn when you type up salary histories). A lot of people work very, very hard, and put in very long hours on their jobs. Many of them are executives. A lot of people get paid very well for what they do. Most of them are executives. There is virtually no correlation between the hours people work and what they get paid. There is a very high correlation between high salaries and executive-level positions. Bottom Line: People get paid as much as they can get. People at the top have a lot more leverage and get a lot more than people at the bottom. Is this a problem? Not at all. As a lifelong liberal with strong socialist tendencies, I am thrilled to see greed undermining capitalism. Just keep taking everything in sight boys--pretty soon you'll own everything and no one will have any incentive to work any more, and won't things run just fine when that happens... Obesity, vindication... Cathy Georges - 11:58am May 6, 1997 PST (#11 of 24)
...I and many others have pointed out areas in the American lifestyle that are unhealthy. However, some of us also pointed out that an individual can choose a healthier path, and that many of us had done so. Society may not encourage healthy behaviour, but you don't have to wait for it to change to modify the way you live--you are not a prisoner of McDonald's. ...Long work hours and pushing people to the point of exhaustion is one unhealthy area that the individual really does have little control over. Baseball: Is it in trouble? Brian Sponsler - 10:23pm May 5, 1997 PST (#48 of 110)
Agreed, baseball as we know it is dead. I'm preparing to take my kids to "A" league. Better seats, lower cost (although not all that low - 6 bucks a pop), less hassle. Major League Baseball has priced itself out of the family market for which it has depended for its identity. Baseball is about learning it as a kid, following a team, knowing the lineup, patting yourself on the back for knowing enough to applaud when the batter makes an out but hits behind the runner. Major league baseball will survive - if by "survive" we mean continue to make money - hell its making more money now than ever. But if by survive we mean maintain its place in the national psyche, it can't because it won't be drawing fathers and sons and families any more. |
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