It sounds like you're responding to the headline and not the article. Taleb didn't say anything about bankers being paid too much (or "so much"). His argument w

It sounds like you're responding to the headline and not the article. Taleb didn't say anything about bankers being paid too much (or "so much"). His argument was that bonuses encourage risk taking and that having bank compensation be less variable (i.e. base salary would go up, but not fluctuate) would lead to less risk taking.