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Why is that insane? A CEO is just a job and how much you get paid depends on how much the industry is willing to pay you. So turning down 10mil to earn 3mil is indeed a sacrifice. Unless you have something against people making a lot of money or think once you hit some number you should not say anything bad about the pay. People don't get salaries because they earned or deserved them, they get them because that's what others are willing to pay for their work.

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> So turning down 10mil to earn 3mil is indeed a sacrifice.

Agree whole-heartedly.

I'm all for reducing exec pay and wage disparity, but still... let's give ppl props when they do pro-social things. That's the moral equivalent of a talented software eng opting to take a 70% pay cut to work in non-profit or government sector instead of private sector. The majority of ppl reading and judging are doing no such thing

Taking money from an organization that intends to do good and riding it into the ground is sabotage, not charity. At least Marissa Mayer fixed Yahoo up long enough to pull off a sale. Firefox alternates between stagnation and self-injury.

First, I would still say yahoo was operated worse. Second, job performance has nothing to do with how much pay she accepted before even performing the job. If she is that bad they can fire her. Again, "their" money. Mozilla is not a corporation that wants to do good, it is a corporation that needs to make a profit. Which Mozilla service are you paying for? The few that coulr potentially be paid were implemented recently much to the horrir of the small number of fanboys.

Because there are plenty of people who are willing to take on the role, who love Mozilla products and actually believe in the mission. 3 mil. is more than enough for the CEO of a non-profit or a company like Mozilla. If she were to really be worth 10 millions as CEO she would be at FAANG, or a unicorn, etc... In that comment which at the time people called out, she was just doing more of the virtue signaling we are used to, and just revealed the type of leadership Mozilla have.

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