derf82 @ derf82 @lemmy.world

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Other CEOs that sit on governing boards set the compensation. It’s the same thing.

Sorry, I’ll never buy that it’s fair compensation, especially for a nonprofit charity.

Convenient the C-Suite sticks to a theory that massively benefits themselves. Sorry, it’s bullshit.

And there is ample evidence. Look no further than how every other employee is treated. Do you think they could get the best veterinarians by paying say, $300,000/year? Of course. But they don’t because they recognize the diminishing returns of thinking they have to have the best. But somehow the C-suite makes itself immune.

And that goes back to your example. As an engineer, I can tell you that construction trades are in HUGE demand. Same with civil engineers. Yet pay isn’t going up, at least not much.

Executive pay has gone up far faster than pay for regular workers. Sorry, I don’t buy the explanation that somehow they are the only group struggling to to find top candidates.

Depends on the job. But I make less than both those numbers. And the construction journeymen make more than me, actually.

Yes, they make less because they are less talented. I completely disagree with your assertion that these executives are more talented. I have yet to meet a business major that wasn’t an absolute moron.

What evidence do you have they are more qualified, besides some paradoxical “they must be because they are in the position” reasoning.?

But if you want a talented, experienced person to run your org, you have to consider what they could make if they worked for someone else.

That’s such bullshit reasoning. They make more than 99.9% of people. I get that not everyone is great, but you are saying 99.9% of people are all talentless hacks that couldn’t do a decent enough job to the extent that the salary savings would be worth it?

Guess my civil engineering degree and 18 years of experience is a worthless pile of shit.

I’ve given up on charity. They’ve lobbied sites like Charity Navigator to not count executive compensation as a negative. I’m sick of capitalism ruining everything.

I have yet to see any marketing for Bluesky. The fediverse still takes effort, even if it isn’t necessarily complicated.

Bluesky is far more user friendly and that’s why the people are going there. I get it, y’all love federation and ActivityPub, but no one wants to pick an instance, much less read a manifesto on decentralized social media. (Frankly, Lemmy has much of the same issues.)

I have had a Mastodon account since Elmo Muskrat bought Twitter, but it’s practically useless as few outside some specific IT-oriented users are on it. I got Bluesky, and it’s been way better as it attracts a larger variety of people.

Illegal to sell. Which means you cannot drink it as you cannot obtain it without a cow of your own.

I mean, I think people should be able to make an informed choice to drink raw milk if they want. In my state it’s straight up illegal.

Edit: so people can drink alcohol or smoke weed, but raw milk is a bridge too far?

It’s not about me fighting a 3rd party candidate. It’s that it doesn’t work in first past the post elections. It’s rare they get even 5%.

Lies! I’m not calling for genocide. I oppose genocide, I oppose the war. But the fact people like you think Trump is the same as Harris erodes that sympathy.

Not going to happen.

And how many decades ago did a 3rd party get a single electoral vote?

lol, Harris had like a 100000000000 times better shot of winning than any third party candidate

I feel that way because you helped Trump.

I’m betting he helps complete the genocide. And I no longer have any sympathy for it.

There was a zero percent chance them winning, Bernie endorsement or no.

So, you’re counting on Trump, known for racist, anti-Muslim rhetoric, will do no different than Harris? Ridiculous. Trump doesn’t care, and it’s clear Bibi doesn’t care.

Also, that doesn’t tell me how that protest vote does anything. If the result is the same, then at least go for the person that won’t destroy even more lives.

My raises, baring promotion, are 2% a year. I did the math. I’ve lost $10,000 a year to inflation at this point. In aggregate it’s around $22,000 at this point.

And what, you think Putin’s favorite Jill Stein would? Cornel West?

She came far and away the closest.