> I’m not sure how comparable a professional athlete is to a CEO. I agree that this is a difficult question. But why in the world is the government, with all i

> I’m not sure how comparable a professional athlete is to a CEO. I agree that this is a difficult question. But why in the world is the government, with all it's perverse incentives, trying to figure this out? The shareholders, the people with a literal financial stake in the outcome, have spoken. Good CEOs are worth their weight in gold. Actually, gold isn't valuable enough. Steve Ballmer's resignation immediately added $20 billion to Microsoft's market cap. That's worth about 400,000 kilograms of gold.