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Comment Re:First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lobbyists (Score 1) 123

by Avwar on Monday June 16, 2008 @02:32PM (#23813597) Attached to: Google, Yahoo, and the Elephant In the Room

While we're busy building walls of separation, let's build one between business and government. No lobbyists. No government-corporate connivance. Gee whiz, wouldn't it be a shame if some of those fortunes disappeared? Capitalism is a tool that needs free competition, not favoritism.

Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money 313

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @07:37PM from the strive-to-be-an-underachiever dept.

tappytibbins writes to tell us Baseline is reporting that in a recent look at the 100 largest tech companies they found that there was a striking correlation between the highest paid CEOs and the lowest returns. From the article: "The one-third highest performing companies paid their chief executives an average of $7.12 million--while the bottom third paid their CEOs $9.29 million. The study compared direct compensation, which includes base salary, bonus and value of stock grants. Why the disconnect? Jack Dolmat-Connell, founder and president of the firm, cites the phenomenon of 'chasing the median': Companies benchmark their executive compensation figures on peers instead of looking at factors related to performance."

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