re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White

A successful business model with balanced management puts the product first, and profits by way of quality and some efficiency. What you refer to is a distortion of a good business model. Before stock options replaced salaries for tax reasons, there was less pressure to do as you point out.

Just like government officials can stray from their key goals under pressure. The proper labels are perhaps “good at it” and “not good at it” and “criminally good or bad at it”. Was it wise to let stock options become the big paycheck for other than small cap companies? No. Now we know that was an awful idea. Was it a good idea to penalize high CEO salaries in such a way as stock options became a tax dodge? No we screwed ourselves. Our elected governance did that. CEO’s exploited the opportunity.

Our elected governance let infrastructures crumble. This is not a Republican phenomenon it’s famously a national one.

This is why party loyalty is a misguided act. Loyalty to facts and skill as can best be discerned is a far better method for us 99%er voters, particularly election years.