Fear and Loathing in Executive Pay
For some reason, people take offense when a corporate executive begins to make as much money as a basketball star or swimsuit model. Though at first glance some might see this as another example of the ill-informed anti-business bias of the American public and media, the disgruntlement in fact arises from a serious concern: the connection between executive pay and company performance.
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