What makes these kinds of people tick

[factseeker88]

Top 10 highest-paid CEOs



NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the 10 highest-paid CEOs of 2013, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay research firm:
1.Anthony Petrello, Nabors Industries, $68.2 million, up 246 percent
2.Leslie Moonves, CBS, $65.6 million, up 9 percent


3.Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, $55.3 million, up 294 percent
4.Stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor, $39 million, up 510 percent
5.Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $37.2 million, up 11 percent
6.Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $36.3 million, up 21 percent
7.Robert Iger, Walt Disney, $34.3 million, down 7 percent
8.David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $33.3 million, down 33 percent
9.Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner, $32.5 million, up 27 percent
10.Brian Roberts, Comcast, $31.4 million, up 8 percent"


A thousand times more than they can ever spend, And they won't raise their employees minimum wages.

 

[Skwim]

Top 10 highest-paid CEOs



NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the 10 highest-paid CEOs of 2013, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay research firm:
1.Anthony Petrello, Nabors Industries, $68.2 million, up 246 percent
2.Leslie Moonves, CBS, $65.6 million, up 9 percent


3.Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, $55.3 million, up 294 percent
4.Stephen Kaufer, TripAdvisor, $39 million, up 510 percent
5.Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $37.2 million, up 11 percent
6.Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $36.3 million, up 21 percent
7.Robert Iger, Walt Disney, $34.3 million, down 7 percent
8.David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $33.3 million, down 33 percent
9.Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner, $32.5 million, up 27 percent
10.Brian Roberts, Comcast, $31.4 million, up 8 percent"


A thousand times more than they can ever spend, And they won't raise their employees minimum wages.

How do you know this? And how about a source.

 

[factseeker88]

How do you know this? And how about a source.

Because not raising their employees wages and making other cutbacks is the only way companies can afford to pay their CEOs and staffs those huge bonuses, if the Profits were better It might have been a different story.

It's like it was in ancient times when the peons paid tribute to their Lords or rulers, a form of tax.

“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]

 

[BSM1]

A thousand times more than they can ever spend, And they won't raise their employees minimum wages.

I doubt they have very little input on the employees' minimum wages. They're probably too busy running a company and keeping it profitable.

 

[Amechania]

I think you'll find that most of that compensation is from stock options directly tied to recent company performance, not salaries. Someone like Zaslav probably makes a few million in salary but he took a huge hit in his overall earnings because Discovery is involved with Oprah's network and some other struggling projects.

 

[Revoltingest]

I doubt they have very little input on the employees' minimum wages. They're probably too busy running a company and keeping it profitable.

And shopping for yachts & airplanes.
It can be so time consuming!

 

[Skwim]

Because not raising their employees wages and making other cutbacks is the only way companies can afford to pay their CEOs and staffs those huge bonuses, if the Profits were better It might have been a different story.

 

[factseeker88]

I think you'll find that most of that compensation is from stock options directly tied to recent company performance, not salaries. Someone like Zaslav probably makes a few million in salary but he took a huge hit in his overall earnings

Poor Zastav, my piles bleed for him.

“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]

 

[BSM1]

And shopping for yachts & airplanes.
It can be so time consuming!

Yes, but upside to a weak economy is that the traffic is not as bad in your better marinas.

 

[LuisDantas]

Wealth is something of a puzzle to me. What does make those people tick, indeed?

It troubles me that people widely accept the existence of such levels of wealth. That is not supposed to happen in a world that has so much material misery.

 

[kashmir]

A bunch of reasons, the main being that people have to feed their families and will settle of what ever they can get on a paycheck.
Its a game for CEO's to have the highest margins, they probably bet on it with each other over golf.

The guys who own the businesses, live high off the hog, and if the CEO's do not meet the margins the owners expect, it's bye bye for them.
You realize, if the actual workers get paid a few pennies more each, that adds up, and the poor owners only bring home XXX million instead of XXX.00009 million per year, we cant be having that.

Plus, look at Donald Trump, he has more money than he will ever be able to spend, yet still works his tail off every day and probably will until the day he dies.

It's not about how much one can have, its about how much MORE one can have.
These big shots don't really care about the money they have, they care about the % more they might make and can brag about it to each other.

Google is a fine example.
They are so jealous of Facebook and the fact their google+pages are a complete failure that as soon as they bought youtube, they changed it all around, forced all the channel owners to have a google page, regardless if they wanted it or not, and the only way now to post on videos is to have that dumb page, which creates a new gmail account and channel, that just sits there and does nothing.
The whole thing was designed to give advertisers just a tad bit more personal info on the users search patterns and likes, so they could place the right ads in the right videos to bait more hits on the ads and commercials, tailored to each person.
Meanwhile though, no one uses the google pages or the +1 thing, like google wants, in comparison to the "like and share" feature on FB.
If they did, wootness for google, wont ever happen though.

But see, we all know that google is pretty much the internet itself, no one can or will ever compete with them, so there is no reason they needed to try to kill FB with their stupid pages thing, its all pure greed, to have just one more piece of the yummy pie of life.

 

[factseeker88]

A bunch of reasons, the main being that people have to feed their families and will settle of what ever they can get on a paycheck.
Its a game for CEO's to have the highest margins, they probably bet on it with each other over golf.

The guys who own the businesses, live high off the hog, and if the CEO's do not meet the margins the owners expect, it's bye bye for them.
You realize, if the actual workers get paid a few pennies more each, that adds up, and the poor owners only bring home XXX million instead of XXX.00009 million per year, we cant be having that.

Plus, look at Donald Trump, he has more money than he will ever be able to spend, yet still works his tail off every day and probably will until the day he dies.

It's not about how much one can have, its about how much MORE one can have.
These big shots don't really care about the money they have, they care about the % more they might make and can brag about it to each other.

Google is a fine example.
They are so jealous of Facebook and the fact their google+pages are a complete failure that as soon as they bought youtube, they changed it all around, forced all the channel owners to have a google page, regardless if they wanted it or not, and the only way now to post on videos is to have that dumb page, which creates a new gmail account and channel, that just sits there and does nothing.
The whole thing was designed to give advertisers just a tad bit more personal info on the users search patterns and likes, so they could place the right ads in the right videos to bait more hits on the ads and commercials, tailored to each person.
Meanwhile though, no one uses the google pages or the +1 thing, like google wants, in comparison to the "like and share" feature on FB.
If they did, wootness for google, wont ever happen though.

But see, we all know that google is pretty much the internet itself, no one can or will ever compete with them, so there is no reason they needed to try to kill FB with their stupid pages thing, its all pure greed, to have just one more piece of the yummy pie of life.

They all have uncontrollable compulsions. What else can one say. Come to think about it, we all have uncontrollable compulsions, but not about money.

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“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This moment is your life. [/FONT]Omar Khayyam

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It's a sickness. It's a crime against humanity that we have multimillionaires and billionaires when most of the world lives off less than $10 a day.

 

[factseeker88]

It's a sickness. It's a crime against humanity that we have multimillionaires and billionaires when most of the world lives off less than $10 a day.

It's always been that way, even worse, so don't expect fixated tradition to change, ever change.

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“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This moment is your life. [/FONT]Omar Khayyam

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It's always been that way, even worse, so don't expect fixated tradition to change, ever change.

The world population is growing and money is becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, so everyone else is getting poorer.

We're heading for a disaster. Whether that disaster forces a revolution or not remains to be seen.

 

[factseeker88]

The world population is growing and money is becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, so everyone else is getting poorer.

We're heading for a disaster. Whether that disaster forces a revolution or not remains to be seen.

Not only from fixated rich men, but fixated women as well. Over a hundred years ago, Hetty Green, the richest women in the world, was so stingy she would buy the Sunday paper and sell it back.

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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]factseeker88[/FONT]


“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This moment is your life. [/FONT]Omar Khayyam

 

[LuisDantas]

It's always been that way, even worse, so don't expect fixated tradition to change, ever change.

Are you sure? It seems to me that it has become both worse and more socially accepted in recent years.

 

[Sunstone]

I doubt they have very little input on the employees' minimum wages.

:biglaugh:

 

[Sunstone]

It's always been that way, even worse, so don't expect fixated tradition to change, ever change.

In a way, that's true. Although the period from the end of World War II to the beginnings of the 1970s say greater income equality and a more vibrant and larger middle class than most any other period in history. The right government policies could do much to return us to such an era of middle class prosperity.

 

[factseeker88]

In a way, that's true. Although the period from the end of World War II to the beginnings of the 1970s say greater income equality and a more vibrant and larger middle class than most any other period in history. The right government policies could do much to return us to such an era of middle class prosperity.

New Prosperity will never happen, not with the do nothing House Republicans at the helm. Making the economy look bad is the only way they can take over the power and they will do or say anything it takes to make it happen -- cheat and lie, job cuts, planned voter suppression, and redistricting,

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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]factseeker88[/FONT]


“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This moment is your life. [/FONT]Omar Khayyam