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I agree that the stress level of C jobs does not compare to the mean. It must be nice not to have to stress about a mortgage, kids college, affordable healthcare and all the other things that ordinary people in western society struggle with.

I think a lot of people would trade stressing about their families financial well being with the needs of the shareholders. I'm not saying it is not a tough job but at the end of the day I don't think CEOs stress compares to regular middle class people just trying to get by.

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A C-level (at least an honest, non-sociopathic, non-clueless one) will stress about the mortgage, kids college, affordable healthcare and all the other things of his or her thousands of employees, since actions at that level impact all of the above. With great power comes great responsibility...

I've just watched the head of a company I know hire 4 employees out of his own pocket in a shell company to do nothing, after the company where they were all employed went bankrupt. He couldn't afford more than that. He hired them a few months later in his new job. This kind of leadership doesn't make it to Business Insider or Tech Crunch.

You don't know what you're talking about. CEOs have mortgages, healthcare, and families to worry about. They also have a handful of very demanding, very intimidating investors to please, to each of whom they owe millions, they have employees that are constantly getting poached, they have users that are shitting on their product online.

At large, people are terrible. CEOs are working with these terrible, dumb, rude, and sometimes harmful people to get them to invest, to work, to be productive, to just help get a product out the door. And if they don't get products out the door - If companies do not succeed - You can say goodbye to your nation. We are built on the fruits of technology-selling companies through and through; our wealthy nations do not come from nowhere, someone has to do the work, and CEOs are all doing the work in addition to family, healthcare, and mortgage woes.

I was about to fly off the handle until I realised your sarcasm.

It's not sarcasm

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