Reply #30: It's hard to ask people to work for less than the market will bear

[Devoir]

"Maybe they'd have less expenses if they wouldn't pay their goddamn CEOs and management their mega-mucho-bucks salaries"

What you say is true, but realistically, you have to pay CEOs and management talent salaries in line with what they could make elsewhere, or elsewhere they will go. While there are exceptions, most of the blue-chip leadership talent isn't going to act against their own self-interests.