Paying CEOs in stock leads to CEOs caring about stock prices. Also, as long as employees are grumbling, but still working, management doesn't care. (And since

Paying CEOs in stock leads to CEOs caring about stock prices. Also, as long as employees are grumbling, but still working, management doesn't care. (And since the extremely inefficient public programs of education and healthcare suck almost all the money out of welfare budgets the unemployment safety net is so weak no one really thinks of acting up.)