Given that point of view, none of our opinions here matter, so why did you even bother commenting at all?
I don't think I have some right to change her compensation, but medium/long term I worry about a real breakdown in society when there are such gross displays of outsized rewards for failure.
The people who agreed to pay her obviously did not consider it obscene or they would not have approved it. They probably have similar compensation at their own companies.
On Hacker News anyone can discuss their opinions and beliefs -- without arguing about whether said opinions and beliefs "should matter."
"Literally none of your business" is expressly wrong if he's a shareholder. But even a non-shareholder employee in tech (or any industry) has a right to be concerned when one individual is compensated for being fired, at 200x the annual rate of a typical tech employee who performs well at their job.
It's a public company. It's our business to investigate it and criticize it.
The problem is that CEOs get millions upon millions to fail whereas in an average americans life, a failure of comparable scale (that tanks your personal finances) is met with brutal harshness and almost no safety net. The cultural gap between what is acceptable for the rich and what is for everyone else is widening and causing serious problems in America, both economically and culturally.