Take doctors for example. They have to make life and death decisions on a daily basis - and that's not a metaphor. If the argument is that it imposes a psycholo

Take doctors for example. They have to make life and death decisions on a daily basis - and that's not a metaphor. If the argument is that it imposes a psychological tax on you then I could come up with quite a few examples that are far more taxing and far less rewarding financially. Try being in a war and killing people and compare that with firing 200 people. In most cases you go through an adjustment period, and after a while you get desensitized - or you go crazy. The same happens with CEOs, you're not going to care the same about the 200th-time you fire somebody as you did with the first. I'm not saying is easy, or that anybody can do it, but we need to step back a little. The same way praising a child about their smarts puts them in a well-I-can't-get-any-better locked position, glorifying CEOs prevents us from critically evaluating their performance or even suggesting there's a better way... After all, we can't possibly know how hard it is.