You were born too late...you would have had a CEO position in the French Revolution.

"Off with his bourgeois head! Next!"

They wouldn't do it for 250K. Making the tough decisions IS work. I wonder, after taxes what their take home pay is and how many freebies the moochers benefit from via his tax bill. Food for thought there.

Superb questions. Perhaps we'll never know the answer to the first one, but for the second one...hmmm. Da Gubbermint? :)

The gov't's role is certainly NOT to make such determinations of course. They need to GTFO of private business and stay the hell out. Just my .02.

There are plenty of people at the top of the food chain ( pun alert!) who started out at the company making minimum wage. The value is in doing your best job in whatever role you have. I worked at a McDonald’s when I was in high school for $2.15 an hour (I think they had just raised the minimum wage from $1.65 or a $1.85)
That job allowed me to buy my first car six months before my sixteenth birthday. It’s a good job for learning how to work with the public and earning a little spending money. It’s not a job at entry level to be trying to raise a family on or support yourself. If you want to make the big bucks within those types of company, you have to put in the years of dedication and service or show up with a hell of resume. Nothing of value comes easy.

I say... good for them!

Those companies are successful, make a good return for their stockholders, AND provide a LOT of jobs. And in Mickie D's case, they give back to their emloyees by training them to be managers and leaders, IF they work hard, and show promise.

Doing that - and making huge profits on top of that - yeah, they earn that kind of money by making the company the money they do. Damn skippy.

What ARE they worth? And by who's determination?