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> If there is outrage over CEO pay, it doesn't make sense to come from the unions or left politicians, it should be coming from activist hedge fund billionaires
by markvdb 6y ago
> If there is outrage over CEO pay, it doesn't make sense to come from the unions or left politicians, it should be coming from activist hedge fund billionaires, which it does.
One doesn't have to be a shareholder or even a direct stakeholder in a specific company to claim the right to outrage over this growing inequality in pay.
- missedthecue 6y agoThe question is whether anyone is worse off because of it, and my comment points out that contrary to popular rhetoric, if anyone is getting hurt by it, it's not the employees. If you think nobody is getting hurt by it, it's not a problem, it's just envy.
- markvdb 6y agoIt's certainly possible to view these things from other perspectives than a narrow transactional economic perspective. Can you imagine some of those?
- missedthecue 6y agoYes, jealousy and envy that other people do in fact make more money than I do. This is not a real societal problem, it's a personal and human nature problem.