Reply #70: I disagree. [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

People like the kind you describe would do something else if they weren't making that kind of money. If a board of directors could pay a CEO less, they would. Obviously someone thought it worth it to pay someone that much. You seem to forget that people don't pay themselves; someone gives them that money.

I also don't think you understand stock or commodities markets. For one thing, commodities markets allow farmers and ranchers to get paid despite losses through things like mad cow disease and all that. And if there was someone in a market manipulating prices, someone else in that same market has incentive to bust them for it. And then buying and selling stocks is no different than buying and selling anything else of value.

Your capitalist pig centrist Democrat,
LoZoccolo