Posted on 06/03/2021 7:20:32 AM PDT by Heartlander
The Chief Executive Officers of the nation would be justified in singing along with the Coasters’ 1950s rock and roll song “Why’s everyone pickin’ on me?” (Officially known as “Charlie Brown.”)
Needless to say, Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the pack, as per usual, baying for some CEO “blood;” well, money. In his latest initiative he is on the warpath against CEO salaries. The Senator from Vermont (Socialist) wants to limit them to 50 times the amount paid to the median worker in their corporations.
Why 50 times and not 40 or 60? If you ask this question, you are obviously anti-worker (woikah, as we say in Brooklyn) and thus should be cancelled. Why limit CEO salaries at all? That’s an easy one. While the guy on the shop floor is really doing all the work, the executives are just pushing papers from one stack to another, playing video games while they are supposed to be working, chasing secretaries around their desks, and having three martini lunches. This all stems from the Marxian labor theory of value, according to which “blood, sweat, and tears” creates goods and services, and the ruling classes just exploit the workers.
This theory claims that things are of value in proportion to the amount of labor inputted into them. This is nonsense on a stick. The mud pie and the cherry pie incorporate the same amount of labor effort, and yet one of them is of value and the other not. The Marxists would claim the former is created with no “socially necessary” labor, but this is circular; they define “socially necessary” so as to obviate this incisive objection. Mud pies obviously...
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CEO salaries are high because on weekends CEOs saw athletes toss footballs and basketballs and slug baseballs for millions.
The CEOS felt they should get more for running a multi-national corporation according to multiple sets of strict government laws and regulations than a guy got for playing a simple ballgame.
Though it is inelastic (inefficient) at times, the market for CEO’s is still—over time—based on supply and demand.
“In 1960, Mark McCormack founded the International Management Group (IMG). In his 43 years as the CEO and sole owner, he built the world’s largest sports and media company. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Monica Seles and many others owe their fame and fortune to IMG.”
“After signing with IMG in 1960, Palmer’s annual income skyrocketed from $50,000 to $500,000 and, ultimately, to $10 million. A mindboggling 20,000% increase.”
“McCormack was the first to see what television would mean for athletes. The size of the audience expanded from a stadium to the entire planet....McCormack turned his clients into international high value brands.”
https://cmgpartners.ca/mark-mccormack-and-img/
The CEO of the company I work for is one of the most useless pieces of crap I’ve ever met. Exceeded in uselessness only by the rest of his upper management team.
Bernie Sanders = Marxism Pimp
Party members applaud
The Politburo speaks.
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