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Comment by rideontime

6 hours ago

Many people observe reality, where the workers end up being the ones held accountable for the CEO's decisions, not the CEO.

Many people observe a limited subset of reality. It's highly visible when a company hits a crisis and people lose their jobs; it's much more common, but much less visible, for a CEO to get an after-hours call about a brewing problem which they must immediately work to smooth over.

Workers are not legally or financially accountable for any of that. That is the whole point of a "job". I think you are confused.

  • When the worker loses their jobs over bad executive decisions, they sure feel like they were pretty harshly financially penalized for those decisions.

  • Are you confusing CEOs with founders, shareholders, etc.? Chief Executive Officer is, in fact, a "job."