Any dollar you get paid as salary is a dollar less for the shareholders. Yet, paying people dollars is still a common practice. Paying people in secrets isn't

Any dollar you get paid as salary is a dollar less for the shareholders. Yet, paying people dollars is still a common practice. Paying people in secrets isn't different in principle, only in degree. However I agree that the scenarios where this would be useful to shareholders would be a bit weird, but it's just a Gedankenexperiment where we assume that for some reason the shareholders already think this is a good idea.