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On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:34:52 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/8/2017 10:22 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 9/7/2017 11:27 PM, John B. wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:16:11 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: OTOH, I also don't see any sense in corporation CEOs getting paid hundreds of times what their professional workers get paid, or paying a lower percentage of their income in taxes. Other country's corporations seem to thrive with much smaller relative pay scales for CEOs. What would be an equitable wage for a chap managing a world wide business with 11,600 stores in 28 countries, employing 2.3 million people with annual revenues of 480 billion dollars and a net income of 14.69 billion? Well, as a very rough guess, I'd limit it to something like 20 times what an average employee earns. Or perhaps $500k per year. After all, what's an equitable wage for the president of the most powerful country on earth? Seems $400,000 is enough to get lots of serious applicants, and I've not seen evidence that a pay raise would generate any better quality applications. Besides, what does a person do with more than $500,000 per year? Does it make him happier? Does it generate any good for society? I very much doubt it. I also doubt it generates any good for a corporation's investors. From what I can tell, CEO pay does not correlate well with corporation performance. This guy still makes too much, in my opinion; but he makes less than a great many CEOs of large corporations, while outperforming them. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sw...85D0R920120614 "what does a person do with more than $500,000 per year? " Easy question! http://www.spacex.com/ At any rate if the Board and/or shareholders think they can get same or better returns with less compensation they may well hire someone else. And they are free to do so on any given day! And frequently they do :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 9/9/2017 12:44 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 22:40:02 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: Replying to Tom's fanciful manderings: -snip much- Interestingly, my own career as a psychologist could fall to automation as online counseling using a bot continues to develop (and has been shown to work pretty well in treating, for example, depression). Yep nothing cheers a guy up like being told his brain isn't right but he's unworthy of human conversation. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 14:19:34 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/9/2017 12:44 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 22:40:02 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: Replying to Tom's fanciful manderings: -snip much- Interestingly, my own career as a psychologist could fall to automation as online counseling using a bot continues to develop (and has been shown to work pretty well in treating, for example, depression). Yep nothing cheers a guy up like being told his brain isn't right but he's unworthy of human conversation. ROTFLMAO! What a great line! Oddly enough, in the (thus far rather small) samples, there is at least a subset of the population much more comfortable with talking to the bot rather than a human therapist. I don't get it, but then I'm old- uphill both ways barefoot in the snow with a headwind and get off my lawn old. Or so it seems, as I work with people born after I started my current job and almost all my doctors are younger than me... |
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On 9/12/2017 3:52 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
snip I don't get it, but then I'm old- uphill both ways barefoot in the snow with a headwind and get off my lawn old. I had to do all that too. Plus I had to do it in South Florida where it was miserably hot and humid for most of the year, with no breeze. |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:52:19 -0500, Tim McNamara
wrote: Oddly enough, in the (thus far rather small) samples, there is at least a subset of the population much more comfortable with talking to the bot rather than a human therapist. I don't get it, . . . I do. When you're through spilling your guts to a bot, you can erase it. And you can be quite certain that it isn't giggling at you. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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Joy Beeson writes:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:52:19 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: Oddly enough, in the (thus far rather small) samples, there is at least a subset of the population much more comfortable with talking to the bot rather than a human therapist. I don't get it, . . . I do. When you're through spilling your guts to a bot, you can erase it. Isn't that why people talk to their cats? And you can be quite certain that it isn't giggling at you. Well, dogs anyway. -- |
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On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 9:39:27 AM UTC-7, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:52:19 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: Oddly enough, in the (thus far rather small) samples, there is at least a subset of the population much more comfortable with talking to the bot rather than a human therapist. I don't get it, . . . I do. When you're through spilling your guts to a bot, you can erase it. And you can be quite certain that it isn't giggling at you. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ Joy, no one would ever giggle at you save for your jokes. |
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On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 2:21:26 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 9:39:27 AM UTC-7, Joy Beeson wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:52:19 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: Oddly enough, in the (thus far rather small) samples, there is at least a subset of the population much more comfortable with talking to the bot rather than a human therapist. I don't get it, . . . I do. When you're through spilling your guts to a bot, you can erase it. And you can be quite certain that it isn't giggling at you. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ Joy, no one would ever giggle at you save for your jokes. Careful there |
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