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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • Being an excellent speaker
  • Selecting proper leadership
  • Having industry connections

If your leadership is 1% better than your competitor, that could be the threshold needed to wipe your competitor out of the market, increasing company profit margins by hundreds of percent.

To draw a parallel, think about school grades. Going from 60 to 70% is insignificant. Going from 70 to 80% is a little more interesting. But going from 96 to 97? That has significantly more meaning than 66 to 67.

Those end numbers matter. A CEO being a tiny bit better has a huge impact.

Fixing the CEOs pay isn't going to do anything for a plethora of reasons. Late stage capitalism is simply a failure and it shows.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

I suspect rich influential people of actively keeping "their inner circle" small so that "access to influential people" is such a scarce valuable resource that they can then sell at exorbitant prices (salaries) to companies.