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Comment by gtvwill | Hacker News Reader

Your dreaming or delusional if you think a CEOs output is 400x someone else's. Dangerously delusional.

CEOs simply control more powerful tools so their output is multiplied. Someone driving a tractor might produce 400x the output of someone with hand tools, but its not because of the person, its the tool. Swap the two people and there will still be a 400x difference in output. It doesn't mean the tractor driver, or business leader is some sort of outlier genius.

Finally someone sane. It’s not about stacking 400x boxes- it’s about force multiplication and impact

By that metric, world leaders ought to have billion dollar salaries.

CEO is about driving a PERSON (of which a corporate entity is also a US person) and can literally direct the corporate into any direction.

A political leader is constrained by numerous laws. No, they do not deserve billions of dollars.

Right. Just like the CEO, a fair amount of people could theoretically drive the tractor, but few have the experience. If you let the wrong person drive the tractor, they might just drive it right in to a river.

Eh your only focused on output from CEO end for estimates and your not doing it well. As mentioned by someone earlier I think the numbers were what 7000 years before a worker on 15 an hour doing 10 hours a day can equate to the 212 million pay packet mentioned? CEO wage is way out of proportion. The CEO doesn't provide 7000 years worth of min wage labor output over his 10 year pay package. Your cooked if you think it's even close.

CEOs can be replaced by algorithms largely. And society will be all the better once they are. Their job literally is just decision making based on input and output of information.

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