• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    If the lowest paid employee becomes 50% better, nothing at the macro scale changes.

    If the CEO becomes a fraction better, the effect is multiplied throughout the company.

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        3 years ago
        • Being an excellent speaker
        • Selecting proper leadership
        • Having industry connections

        If your leadership is 1% better than your competitor, that could be the threshold needed to wipe your competitor out of the market, increasing company profit margins by hundreds of percent.

        To draw a parallel, think about school grades. Going from 60 to 70% is insignificant. Going from 70 to 80% is a little more interesting. But going from 96 to 97? That has significantly more meaning than 66 to 67.

        Those end numbers matter. A CEO being a tiny bit better has a huge impact.

        Fixing the CEOs pay isn’t going to do anything for a plethora of reasons. Late stage capitalism is simply a failure and it shows.

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          3 years ago

          I suspect rich influential people of actively keeping “their inner circle” small so that “access to influential people” is such a scarce valuable resource that they can then sell at exorbitant prices (salaries) to companies.