The mechanism CEOs often used to boost their pay over the past few years has been the stock buyback. Instead of reinvesting profits in research, equipment or in rank-and-file employees, companies often use a hefty chunk of that money to repurchase shares of company stock — which increases the value of those shares and those that remain outstanding.
That’d be an interesting setup, remove all subsidies of cut-throat companies, and set a minimum standard to qualify for bailouts/grants/etc. if they really think they can make it, then let them try.
Let those companies fail. Stop all the grants and bailouts. Let those CEOs lose everything
That’d be an interesting setup, remove all subsidies of cut-throat companies, and set a minimum standard to qualify for bailouts/grants/etc. if they really think they can make it, then let them try.