Re: CEO Pay (was Green Streak)

["Mike Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
>1).   You might not be able to find the right kind of CEO's

With all respect, I think this argument is a red herring. Personally, I
wouldn't mind if computer programmers were paid tens of millions of
dollars a year, and if they were I think you'd hear exactly the same
thing: "If we paid them any less, we wouldn't get good ones". In reality,
computer programmers get paid a lot less, and yet somehow a lot of us are
still willing to sign up for the job (and a few of us are actually pretty
good at it! :-).

In the short term, any particular company that tried this might have
problems, but that is simply human nature: anybody in any job would be
likely to make a switch if every other company paid many times more for
the same services. But if it were done across the board, I think we'd have
the same number of competent (and incompetent) CEOs as we do now. . . .


Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@juddwire.com