Let the Good Times Roll: Another Lousy CEO Gets $140 Million for Getting FIRED

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Patroklos
And of course it is priced our of the range of proles becuase they are not big corporations.

I suppose if the average person can't afford the best, they shouldn't have anything at all.

You are are just jealous.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

An organization doesn't need to make obscene profits to benefit society... take my previous example of non-profit organizations, for example - typically the most beneficial of all buisnesses.

Yet even when they take obscene amounts of profits, they've benefited society. IBM has benefited society so much they should give them a freaking medal.

You've completely lost track of the point... if a company benefits society, a person can believe in it. If a person believes in something, they don't need to be paided obscene amounts of money to be convinced to do it.

If a company has a good cause or is a benefit to society than the question "Who would want to be be a CEO if they didn't get paid a $10 million salary?" never need be asked.

Do you consider AOL Time Warner, Oracle, and Microsoft (to name only a few) to be "mom&pop stores"?

Time Warner?! It's kind of hard to be a managing partner of a law firm before becoming CEO without a college degree. Yes, CEO Richard Parsons was a managing partner in the firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. His graduated from University of Hawaii and Union University's Albany Law School.

I was refering to Ted Turner

Ellison (Oracle) and Gates (Microsoft) are very different than what we are talking about and are the exception, not the rule. Both are the founders of their respective companies (ie, haven't been brought in by some Board to a massive salary) and created companies in a vastly new field which wasn't being taught sufficiently in universities. Both of them did indeed spend a few semesters at highly respected universities (Ellison at University of Illinois and University of Chicago and Gates at Harvard). Furthermore, since they created their companies and put together their massive empires, I think they deserve every penny they can get out of it.

Ellison and Gates are making the money they are because they founded those companies. If those will similar training want to form their own company, then they can go right ahead. But you seriously can't say they deserve as much as Ellison and Gates because they have the same training. Ellison and Gates have obviously shown greater skills. And how have they done so? By building their empires.

CEOs that are brought in, however, are highly educated and/or have demonstrated great skills (by running their own business).

Oh, I see. Founding and running a company takes less training and skill than being hired into it as a CEO.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Imran ****tyqui


Dell and Gateway, also responsible for a far higher percentage of people owning PCs than otherwise would. They are in it for the money, but in doing so, they have greatly expanded the number of people with computers.

yay so I can blame them for all the morons on the Yahoo! message boards...

and from before... poor get richer? what kind of dumbass, fantasyland do you live in?

[Sava]

Originally posted by Patroklos
You are are just jealous.

what am I jealous of again?

[Patroklos]

You secretly want to be an elite with a severance package.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sava
what am I jealous of again?

Uh, the $140 million severance package?

[Az]

And people who hate paedophiles are just about some sweet prepubscent poontang.

[Kuciwalker]

That analogy would be accurate, if sweet prepubescent poontang were something most people found desirable.

[Az]

wait, they don't?

Ok, lemme try a different metaphore.

People who criticize dictators only do it because they wish they were dictators themselves.

is that photorealistic enough for you?

[Patroklos]

That suffers from the exact same problem.

[Az]

Most people desire power. That's why the want money, I remind you.

[Kuciwalker]

Most people would much rather have $140 million than be a dictator. Easier and less risky.

[Az]

yes. "rather". But in absolute terms, most people would like the power a dictator has.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Kucimonster
That analogy would be accurate, if sweet prepubescent poontang were something most people found desirable.

What about all the "barely-legal" pornography where girls are dressed up to look like children? Or the pupularity of shaving the genitals for that... prepubescent look.

[Az]

That wasn't me, Ludd.