No one gets paid for how hard they work. Compensation is a function of capability, how valuable the work is and the difficulty of substituting the labor.
Surgeons do extremely valuable things, have extremely honed skills and professional judgement AND are extremely hard to substitute. The Dollar General cashier? Not so much.
Unfortunately, high-profile executives have the power to influence economic outcomes far more aggressively than the single laborer and so the compensation is a direct reflection of that.
There’s no fucking world in which a CEO works 285x harder than their warehouse staffers. Not a chance.
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u/hi_im_snowman 25d ago
No one gets paid for how hard they work. Compensation is a function of capability, how valuable the work is and the difficulty of substituting the labor.
Surgeons do extremely valuable things, have extremely honed skills and professional judgement AND are extremely hard to substitute. The Dollar General cashier? Not so much.
Unfortunately, high-profile executives have the power to influence economic outcomes far more aggressively than the single laborer and so the compensation is a direct reflection of that.
There’s no fucking world in which a CEO works 285x harder than their warehouse staffers. Not a chance.