Activision Blizzard CEO Nets HUGE Bonus After Mass Layoffs

[Mr Puggsly]

benji232 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

But what's the alternative? Limit how wealthy businesses and individuals can be? Giving that money to government directly so they can piss it away?

If Activision feels he's worth that extra $200 million (much of which is probably taken by taxes), I'm not really concerned. I don't think capping how wealthy people are allowed to be is going to improve quality of life. Shaming people for not siding with liberal perspectives isn't going to help either.

I don't know, maybe giving a better than barely living wage to the employees instead of pissing it all away to a single billionaire? 200M$ divided among 10 000 employees is an extra 20 grand each (as an example).

Now, obviously, the problem is a big one with no easy solution. And I will not pretend like I'm some Nobel winning prize economist who could find a solution to this issue, but you don't need to know the solution of a problem to know that there is a problem.

IT'S a plainly obvious problem if a CEO is allowed to make 200M$ from a bonus payment while his employees are all making peanuts. If you can't see the problem with that, then I don't know what to tell you. Obviously, I'm not saying everyone should be paid equally, but there is a fine line between being paid equally and being paid literal crumbs compared to the ceo. 

Point blank is NO one deserves 200M$ from a bonus. The fact that so many ceos DO get those grossly huge overpayments is proof that the current system is broken.

You haven't really said anything.

Now it may not feel right to you, but that doesn't mean the system is broken. I think we often see more problems when politicians push to make things fair. That's why people leave certain cities and states in masses.