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None of these issues are specific to CEO wages. This is essentially just a list of reasons why you don't like capitalism. ie if a CEO doesn't do these on their own accord, the shareholders might contact the CEO and tell them to take some of these measures. This mechanism isn't dependent on CEO pay, because the CEO is always beholden to the shareholders, and shareholders always want more money.

The solution to this isn't to get mad (or even do something about) CEO wages, but to make sure there are other good reasons why companies might not use these approaches to maximize shareholder returns (ie stronger government regulation, making these approaches illegal).



> This mechanism isn't dependent on CEO pay, because the CEO is always beholden to the shareholders, and shareholders always want more money

Legally the CEO has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. In practice, can we honestly say that every CEO of a publicly traded corporation acted in the long term interests of EVERY shareholder and didn't just parasitically extract value from the company for themselves and a handful of LARGE shareholders? Facebook is essentially the personal property of Mark Zuckerberg


> Legally the CEO has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders

The CEO has two fiduciary duties:

1) To act with appropriate information; 2) To avoid usurping corporate opportunities

The duty to make money for the shareholders is distinctly not a thing.




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