Comment by nostrademons

The point of high CEO salaries is to align their incentives with the board and shareholders (the people paying them), so that when they are faced with the decision of losing their job vs. fucking over the tens of thousands of people working with them to increase shareholder value, they choose to fuck over the people working with them. Most people would not normally make that choice; it takes a few tens of millions in stock options before someone might contemplate it.