well what a coincidence.

The were the highest-paid because they had to endure the pain, the agony, the soul-twisting, sleep-depriving, humanity-shredding despair experienced only by those who must, for the greater good, make the truly tough decisions. Like the general pacing his lines at dawn, knowing that so many of his men will follow him once more into the breach and that so many of them will die for it; like Sophie, forced to choose one to spare the other; like the disaster medic who must choose in that one moment of passion who must live and who must die. These men, these brave men, make decisions with ramifications that the rest of us cannot comprehend. Do not want to comprehend. And we can sleep in the blissful sleep of our own naive and coddled ignorance because of them. Is paying a little more to the man who must bear on his conscience for the rest of his life the firings of 10,000 workers so much to ask? That some can even consider the merits of such a question is a sad testament indeed to the naive and blissful ignorance that the noble sacrifices of these brave CEOs enables in our ungrateful and undeserving population.

SHOCKED!

SHOCKED, I tell you.

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Sounds like redistribution of wealth to me -- from the middle class to the already wealthy.

Which they did to create more jobs.

again?

Rapmaster2000: It also weakens long-term growth, but what the fark do you care? You just bought a sweet boat.

Which stimulated the economy and keeps the boating industry going.
See, it all balances out.