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Are you asking why executives aren't decreasing their own pay?

• eru 3y ago
  Executives are supposed to work for the shareholders. If the executives of Uber could just ignore shareholders, they wouldn't need to worry about profits at all.
  • themitigating 3y ago
    They do work for shareholders but since shareholders aren't equally divided, i.e. one person or company may own a larger portion, and it's difficult to sue over this, executive can ignore the shareholders to an extent. How would you prove a decision was wrong without hindseight? How would you prove an executive shouldn't make X amount of money? Imagine I'm the CEO of Nike, I make $100 million a year. The company is doing amazing. Is that because of decisions I made, marketing, good product, word of mouth, things that happened before I was CEO. Prove that I shouldn't get that money.
    • eru 3y ago
      There's no need to prove anything: the shareholders can replace the CEO (via some indirection) at will. They don't get the money back they already spent, of course.
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