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equineluvr ago

Who gets to decide how much money someone gets to make? YOU?! Maybe WE should all decide how much money YOU get to make.

If you're gonna argue that HE is immoral because of his activities, I'm with ya on that.

pby1000 ago

I don't mean to disagree with you, but a lot of these companies take taxpayer subsidies. I know that Walmart and Tesla do. Elon Musk was not even born an American. I believe he got US citizenship, but I do not know when he first received US taxpayer support for his business ventures.

Almost all of the military companies would be out of business without taxpayer subsidies.

I have not looked into Amazon, but I would be surprised if they are not heavily supported.

equineluvr ago

You do realize that it's the boards of these companies who decide what the compensation for the CEO is -- don't you?

pby1000 ago

Even if it is the board, they are deciding how much to compensate the CEO with taxpayer money. Why don't they compensate the CEO with revenue they earned and give the taxpayers their money back?

I did a quick search:

http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/news/amazon-received-241m-subsidies-warehouses

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/27/taxpayer-funded-capitalism-here-are-the-biggest-corporate-subsidy-deals-of-2016/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-governments-are-giving-billions-in-tax-breaks-to-apple-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-2016-10-13

There are many more. I just searched "amazon subsidies".

These companies are not being run by corporate geniuses. They are being run by people that cannot earn enough revenue to justify the bonuses they want, so they shake down the taxpayers to make up for it.

I have these arguments a lot with people who say that Socialism does not work. It seems that one can argue that these corporations are Socialist, and it works for them. Socialism is just not available to the rest of us for some reason.