Comments for Beware The CEO Panhandlers

Beware The CEO Panhandlers

2008-10-11T02:48:40Z

Enjoy your weekend, and mind your pockets when you're out and about.

"I Am Going To Be Small" by Jeffrey Brown, via Neatorama

Comment from Ben Popken on 2008-10-12

2008-10-12T18:10:30Z

250K? Interesting choice of numbers, that's what they just raised the FDIC-insurance limit to.

Comment from fallstreet on 2008-10-12

2008-10-12T06:35:03Z

The disgraced AIG CEO got a $16 million golden parachute and another fired executive is earning $1,000,000 per month as a consultant for doing nothing. I would switch lives with them in a second!

Comment from IrvCrapper on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T16:56:11Z

@humphrmi:
Yeah. Sue the fuckers running the corporation for not doing that which is in the stock holders' best interests.

Comment from banmojo on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T11:57:31Z

Nice!

Comment from G-Dog on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T11:23:07Z

Jeffrey Brown is a cool guy. Too bad I'm going to miss him at the Windy City Comicon.

Comment from TechnoDestructo on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T10:26:18Z

@humphrmi:
The problem is you pretty much need to have the same kind of money that they do in order to get that kind of control. And even then you'd probably never be able to do more than one or two companies.

The fact that high-level executives can make gobs of money without ever really having a stake in the long-term (or in some cases, even short-term) health of their company is one of the biggest (but not the only) causes of EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY EVER. It is a problem that only government (or maybe a killing decades-long "in the long run we're all dead" depression) can solve. Maybe it can be done just with threats? There's no time like the present.

What we have now is a perversion of the capitalist ideal of risk-and-reward. There is no risk being taken, but tremendous reward being granted. The free market cannot protect the very ideals that are invoked to protect the free market.

Comment from Kounji on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T09:52:36Z

@MayorBee is getting what plants crave: LOL

Comment from humphrmi on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T07:58:26Z

Does anyone here think that they can make CEO pay more reasonable? For instance, buy up stock in a company and then as a shareholder make the CEO take a reasonable pay package?

Just asking...

Comment from Cliff_Donner on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T07:14:36Z

Allegory - - - or I just like "Migraine Boy"???

Comment from mechanismatic on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T06:59:01Z

The best panhandling sign I've ever seen was, "Bet you can't hit me with a quarter."

I guess the CEO version is, "Bet you can't hit me with a gold brick."

Comment from lostsynapse on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T06:50:32Z

HOLY &*(# Main Street Failed!!!
[www.fdic.gov]
Ok, just a really small bank named Main Street. Guess I panicked for no good reason.

Comment from MayorBee on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T06:28:52Z

Wanda Sykes has a bit about the whole Enron thing vs. walking through the projects at night. She says "You get mugged, you might lose what you got on that DAY. But I ain't never been mugged of my FUTURE."

Comment from IrvCrapper on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T05:50:58Z

Ha ha! That's funny. Add to the CEOs all the people that Gawker fired.

Funny!

Comment from Segador on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T05:46:58Z

I'll just take the $400k "retreat" on the taxpayer's dime.

Comment from mac-phisto on 2008-10-11

2008-10-11T05:13:58Z

@ViperBorg: you know, that might actually be worth a quarter-million.

Comment from trujunglist on 2008-10-10

2008-10-11T04:42:40Z

More like "hey man, can you spare $36 billion" but hey, who's counting at this point?

Comment from azntg on 2008-10-10

2008-10-11T04:11:59Z

Thanks for the PSA! Will do!

Comment from ViperBorg on 2008-10-10

2008-10-11T04:05:04Z

Street level target practice.

Let the CEO Punch-In-The-Face Games begin!