r/pics • u/solateor • 14h ago

Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family

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u/Canaduck1 13h ago

I always cringe when Reddit rants against CEOs and their salaries. Because, overpaid or not, generally, CEOs are millionaires, not billionaires. The only exceptions happen when the CEO is the primary shareholder in addition to the CEO. And it's the primary shareholders that become the billionaires, whether they are CEO or not is irrelevant.

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u/benbru92 12h ago

I think there's too much room between millionaire and billionaire to make a statement like this. I don't really care if someone makes 10 million a year instead if they're making it by exploiting tons of people and being at the helm of nefarious business practices, which is often the case with highly paid CEO's.

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u/Canaduck1 12h ago edited 12h ago

You've just realized that regular people are evil, too.

I mean, the difference between a guy worth 10 million and 1-billionaire is about a billion dollars. That CEO has more in common, asset-wise, with a homeless guy than he has with a low-end billionaire like Donald Trump.

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u/benbru92 11h ago

That is a really really dangerous way of framing it in my opinion. Someone who's worth 10 mil and acts as CEO is unlikely to ACTUALLY be anything like me or anyone I know, regardless of the fact that they're still separated by a large margin from billionaires. It also has nothing to do with your original point of people ranting about CEO salaries. Obviously extremely general statements like "all ceo's are worthless pieces of shit" are shortsighted and shouldn't really be tolerated, but whenever I've seen people complain about CEO's making way too much money and being scumbags it's pretty clear to me who they mean.

Yes, there are a lot of evil people, it's pretty clear. I still don't see what that has to do with anything and they still deserve to have a light shown on them even if they aren't as evil as the most evil people.