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NZT…Holy shit, 12.89% yield!!!!!!
“the argument that if we HAD to live with obscene levels of compensation, we the people can at least get our share.”
WTF, cmu???? “we the people” didn’t eran it at all wheteher or not you think the CEO “earned” it.
If you want a socialist system, please, feel free to move elsewhere and enjoy your entitlements.
Again, life is not fair but to take away what others have just because you or “the people” don’t have it is Socialism at best or Communism at worst. Absolutely ridiculous.
Not taking any side on the CEO/person in the trenches pay/work hours, but in response to CH’s question. I haven’t taken a real vacation in I don’t know how long. It’s sad – I went away for a couple of days in the summer but a real two week vacation? It might have been the Regan administration. 🙁
My next vacation though is going to be pretty soon. I don’t know exactly when but in the next 2 or 3 months and I am going to CUBA. I am going to do it the way AMERICANS aren’t supposed to.
I am going there before Starbucks!!!!!
$100 a show biff
I was so bored today, I bought a little stock in New Zealand Telephone. (NZT).
quote:
no one human is worth $22 million.
that’s crazy talk. there’s tons of people who are worth that much!
*rob*
So yesterday I was looking for something to do with my kids and decided to mess around with claymation. Took a little clay, made a “studio” out of a cardboard box and some construction paper, took a bunch of pictures on a regular digital camera, loaded them on to Microsoft Movies (pre-loaded on any pc built in the last 5 years, clicked a couple of buttons, and voila.
This took about 15 minutes or so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0DZg7UjMnI
Totally gonna do some more of this this weekend with the kids. (Gonna try to make it look good though)
How much can one earn in the porn industry as an entry level guy?
CMU, world is a global mkt now. if the mkt is closer to those ratios biff posted above, ceo pay will trend toward that. if it’s US ratio, then world will trend toward us. if CEO gigs are indeed that doable (ie tons of folks can do it), then it’ll trend down (ie candidate #2 offers to take the gig for $5M lower than candidate #1). just like the stinky politicians we have, we too lazy to vote their asses out – we can do the same with board if shsholder indeed feel they paying too much for CEO, CFO, President,….