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She was hired by people who agreed to pay her that under the conditions they did - those people didn't consider it grotesquely obscene and it was their decision

She was hired by people who agreed to pay her that under the conditions they did - those people didn't consider it grotesquely obscene and it was their decision - the only "problem" I see here is that you believe your opinion on her compensation and performance should matter. It's literally none of your business (even if you were an employee, and as a stock holder you could have voiced your opinion by selling, hell you could have even bet against them)

stephancoral 10y ago
>It's literally none of your business It's a public company. It's our business to investigate it and criticize it. The problem is that CEOs get millions upon millions to fail whereas in an average americans life, a failure of comparable scale (that tanks your personal finances) is met with brutal harshness and almost no safety net. The cultural gap between what is acceptable for the rich and what is for everyone else is widening and causing serious problems in America, both economically and culturally.
khazhou 10y ago
No one said the board didn't agree to pay her. The people who agreed to pay her obviously did not consider it obscene or they would not have approved it. They probably have similar compensation at their own companies. On Hacker News anyone can discuss their opinions and beliefs -- without arguing about whether said opinions and beliefs "should matter." "Literally none of your business" is expressly wrong if he's a shareholder. But even a non-shareholder employee in tech (or any industry) has a right to be concerned when one individual is compensated for being fired, at 200x the annual rate of a typical tech employee who performs well at their job.
hn_throwaway_99 10y ago
> the only "problem" I see here is that you believe your opinion on her compensation and performance should matter Given that point of view, none of our opinions here matter, so why did you even bother commenting at all? I don't think I have some right to change her compensation, but medium/long term I worry about a real breakdown in society when there are such gross displays of outsized rewards for failure.
- rubber_duck 10y ago
  Our opinions on this specific case don't matter but HN should have higher standard than Reddit style political feelings rants.

stephancoral 10y ago

>It's literally none of your business It's a public company. It's our business to investigate it and criticize it. The problem is that CEOs get millions upon millions to fail whereas in an average americans life, a failure of comparable scale (that tanks your personal finances) is met with brutal harshness and almost no safety net. The cultural gap between what is acceptable for the rich and what is for everyone else is widening and causing serious problems in America, both economically and culturally.

khazhou 10y ago

No one said the board didn't agree to pay her. The people who agreed to pay her obviously did not consider it obscene or they would not have approved it. They probably have similar compensation at their own companies. On Hacker News anyone can discuss their opinions and beliefs -- without arguing about whether said opinions and beliefs "should matter." "Literally none of your business" is expressly wrong if he's a shareholder. But even a non-shareholder employee in tech (or any industry) has a right to be concerned when one individual is compensated for being fired, at 200x the annual rate of a typical tech employee who performs well at their job.

hn_throwaway_99 10y ago

> the only "problem" I see here is that you believe your opinion on her compensation and performance should matter Given that point of view, none of our opinions here matter, so why did you even bother commenting at all? I don't think I have some right to change her compensation, but medium/long term I worry about a real breakdown in society when there are such gross displays of outsized rewards for failure.

rubber_duck 10y ago
Our opinions on this specific case don't matter but HN should have higher standard than Reddit style political feelings rants.