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[โ€“] hark 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, CEOs are often compensated largely through stock and are therefore incentivized to boost that stock price, at least until they have the opportunity to sell (or use as collateral on a loan with an inflated valuation, I'm not super familiar with the financial trickery played at that level).

[โ€“] scarabic 1 points 1 year ago

I did say pretty much just that:

and they are usually paid in such a way to motivate shareholder benefits, like with stock instead of a high salary.