Seriously, though, what do CEOs actually do? How can one person (totally hypothetically) be the CEO of a car company and a rocket company at the same time, but spend all his time doing drugs, gaming, and destroying democratic institutions? What value does that add to the company? Or, say Walmart fired its CEO and didn't replace him? How long would it take customers to notice, and what would they notice, versus firing store employees with an equivalent amount of compensation?
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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You missed some companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
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CEO and product architect of Tesla Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX Founder and CEO of xAI Founder of the Boring Company and X Corp. Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal) President of the Musk Foundation
No way he puts in much time on any of those.
I hear tell that several of those companies have entire departments solely dedicated just to distract Musk with bullshit when he visits, so he doesn't attempt to do any "work".
Musk showing up to perform work is how we get things like "Human eyes don't have LIDAR so a Tesla doesn't need it either".
How terrible it must be to have to actively run interference to keep the CEO from breaking the company.
They talk to rich people. Thing is, we decided the best way to run the economy is to have it solely be controlled by toddlers who inherit money and grifters who can trick them into giving them money. You need CEOs for that second part.
So, a politician? A fatass, dumbass politician?
politicians "profit" comes more from "political donations" rather than their actual salary.
The salaries aren’t that big
If you include all the legal (and illegal) bribes that almost all of them receive, they are well paid, though.
You’re probably not wrong, but it’s tough to calculate.
I can be a CEO. I'm a dumbass. I want a big salary. It's like a match made in heaven. 😃
But I'm a bigger dumbass and I want an even bigger salary!
Wait, can you stand in front of a room full of people that you can fire indiscriminately and let them applaud your shitty speech and laugh at your lame jokes? That's the entire job description.
Uhh... not wrong?
See: Bobby Kotick