How much money has Tom Brady or Jassy made for the patriots/Amazon due to their leadership? If they brought 500M then 25M seems fair.
The decision to make AWS created 100s of billions of dollars of value. CEO decisions can make and break companies.
> If there were no employees other than the CEO then the $500M doesn't get made.
Right, and if Tom Brady doesn't have receivers to throw to he doesn't win any super bowls. It is the leadership that can create massive amounts of value.
I can make decisions to create something all day, none of it makes any money unless effort is put into it's creation. Product and engineering and design made AWS which allowed the company to make billions. The marketing team after that.
No decision is worth this much money when it comes at the expense of paying the people for their labour.
His decision-making can absolutely influence the bottom line far more than any single Amazon warehouse worker could.
Now, I'm not saying that warehouse workers are worthless or should be treated like shit, far from it, but if Amazon doesn't pay him this much, some other corporation will. That's the free market.
Regardless of if he's a magician or not, we're talking about work.
> His decision-making can absolutely influence the bottom line far more than any single Amazon warehouse worker could.
I decided to have coffee this morning, but if I don't put in a doordash order and there's no barista, then I don't get to have coffee.