Comment by PaulHoule
1 year ago
I think a lot of people might believe their life or the life of a loved one was ruined or endangered by a health insurance CEO and such a person might feel justified in such an attack.
When you think of the awful stress that CEOs put on people like
https://www.reddit.com/r/SEARS/comments/18uwjvg/have_you_int...
and think it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often but then I found out that Lampert had been kidnapped.
CEO pay is an outlier partly for their vision/talent, but primarily because they individually take the hit whenever a subordinate, no matter how far down the chain, fucks up publicly.
Sometimes it seems the other way with failing up. But yeah, a CEO sometimes has to take a lot of shit. See
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/2/intel-ceo-pat-ge...
Personally I do not care how much they get paid as much as I care how miserable they can make my life as a customer/vendor/employee.
Err, unless he's tapping you to be his next-in-line, a CEO's impact on your happiness is vanishingly small relative to your customer service agent's, your sales rep's, or your immediate boss's.