• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I genuinely don’t understand how we, as a society, reached a point where delusional businessmen like this exist. What can he possible do, to justify earning this much money, while his company is literally failing in real time

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      8 months ago

      Unfettered capitalism.

      Time to tax the corporations and the wealthy for their fair share again.

      Want to solve almost all our problems? Redistribute wealth from the 1% who spend it on yachts to the rest of us to spend on healthcare, wages, etc.

      Small business owner making 6 figures a year? I am not talking about you.

      Spez, making 9 figures? That is who I am talking about and where the problem lies.

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      8 months ago

      Entitlement. He got better because he comes from a well to do family and all the privileges that brings. He believes he deserves it, plain and simple.

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      8 months ago

      The reality of his compensation package is a lot more nuanced. The 9 figure number is eye popping, but he’s being paid less than $2 million over 2023-2024, and almost all of the rest is contingent upon a successful IPO and then reaching a set of (incredibly unrealistic) stock valuation benchmarks. Reddit’s stock has to hit something like $45/share for him to see 8 figures and $90/share for him to realize the full amount.

      I’m in no way defending this pay package or his shitty behavior, just pointing out that he’s not just getting handed $200 million outright

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        8 months ago

        but he’s being paid less than $2 million over 2023-2024

        Read that again. Someone making federal minimum wage would have to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week with no sick days and still wouldn’t make that much in like 130 years, which is well beyond even a generous human lifespan let alone the usable years of a lifespan.

        That federal minimum wage is grossly below what is needed just to survive is a different argument, except that it’s people like Steve that are responsible for the disparity between income and subsistence level.

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          8 months ago

          I read it when I wrote it, I’m comparing $2M to $200M here, not to minimum wage, and not defending anyone

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            8 months ago

            That’s the problem though, you’re comparing two ridiculous numbers for one person to make in a year and trying to convince us that one is less bad for some reason. Their both psychotic. And yes, you are in fact defending it as evidenced by you replying to defend it. Come on, man.