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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts) Thu May 19, 2016, 08:43 PM May 2016

Should Any CEO Make $6000 Per Hour?

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Should Any CEO Make $6000 Per Hour? (Original Post) thomhartmann May 2016 OP

Thomas Picketty said it best: forest444 May 2016 #1

They have to offer them that just to get them ErikJ May 2016 #2

How could anyone really be worth that much money? Urchin May 2016 #3

I don't understand you, Thom. We hear from shills like this on every fucking TV channel and NPR. Enthusiast May 2016 #4

Where did Thom go? Pastiche423 May 2016 #5

forest444

(5,902 posts)

1. Thomas Picketty said it best:

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Thu May 19, 2016, 09:41 PM

May 2016

Anything over $2 million a year (or roughly $1,000 an hour), even for a Fortune 500 company, is completely unrelated to performance - and in fact is inversely related.

This means that even from a corporate point of view, paying them a dime more than is a complete waste of money. Except for the inbred fat cat receiving it, of course.

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)

2. They have to offer them that just to get them

Reply to forest444 (Reply #1)

Thu May 19, 2016, 09:48 PM

May 2016

which means the top tax rate is way too low.

Urchin

(248 posts)

3. How could anyone really be worth that much money?

Reply to forest444 (Reply #1)

Thu May 19, 2016, 11:38 PM

May 2016

Think about it. The average IQ is 100. And what's the maxium IQ? Twice that high? Two and half times that high? Certainly not hundreds or thousands of times higher.

How could anyone be so much smarter than the average person that they are such geniuses they deserve to make thousands of dollars an hour?

I remember reading back around 1990, when $50 was worth even more than it is today, that if Bill Gates were to drop a $50 bill, he would lose money if he had stopped working to pick it up.

Does anyone really believe that Bill Gates was so irreplaceable that we wouldn't have a Windows-style operating system today if Gates were never born? No Way. In fact if Microsoft had not been allowed its monopoly on mindshare, we'd probably have much better software today.

Hey, the guy who created the Linux operating system gave it away for free!

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

4. I don't understand you, Thom. We hear from shills like this on every fucking TV channel and NPR.

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 07:20 AM

May 2016

Why do we need to see them on your program? Think we don't hear enough from their side when they dominate TV, Radio and print media as they do?

Pastiche423

(15,406 posts)

5. Where did Thom go?

Reply to Enthusiast (Reply #4)

Sat May 21, 2016, 10:58 PM

May 2016

Thom Hartmann was my favorite pundit for years. Then several months ago, he changed and not for the better.

We should support HER? The man that hosted Brunch with Bernie wants us to support HER?

WHY?

And you are correct. We can hear fucking cons screaming over the top of each other everywhere. We don't need it here.

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