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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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The board of directors removes the obvious corruption argument.
And shareholders select the board of directors anyway, so if shareholders agree to new terms of values then CEOs can and will be fired.
I'm looking at Intel for example and how they mistreated Pat Gelsinger and fired him despite being a technical leader. And the new incoming CEO is Lip-Bu Tan, who is a non-technical finance bro who is worse. Why did the shareholders (and board of directors) prefer Lip-Bu Tan?
There is a large scale hero worship bro culture that's at the root of all the problems here, a culture that millions of shareholders have which is then passed to the Board of Directors and finally the C-suite that the Board hires.
But no. Let make shitty memes that misunderstand the power dynamics and perpetuates misinformation. That will help your argument lol.
EDIT and that doesn't even get to say, all the CEOs who take a $1/year paycheck just to prove you wrong. The problem here is hero worship cult culture. The pay and salaries are a distraction and easily avoided with various simple political / Public Relations moves.
Hum... Not exactly, but it does shift the burden.