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Old April 3rd 05, 05:02 PM
Mitch_A
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Thats the fundamental difference. If WE dont like Motorola we dont buy
Motorola products and soon Motorola will be gone.

Mitch


"John Wallace" > wrote in message
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> JP wrote:
>> "John Wallace" > wrote in message
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>>
>>>JP wrote:
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>>>
>>>> What's wrong with corporate profits ? Just curious is all.
>>>
>>>New Motorola CEO fired 38,000 people, and got 38 million dollars as his
>>>reward for a year's work.
>>>
>>>Nothing is wrong with profit, but if you think that is good for you as a
>>>worker, I can only say good luck to you.

>>
>>
>>
>> <shrug> Maybe. One thing for certain; a corporation NOT making a
>> profit
>> isn't good for workers. I.e., Motorola, I would bet (not having looked
>> at
>> their details).

>
> No profits is surely worse! <g> However there is surely an element of
> "how much is enough"? What is the CEO going to do with 38 million that he
> couldn't have done with 28 million? Or 18 million?
>
> In Scandinavia CEOs get poaid, on average, 11 times more than the average
> salary in their company. Across Europe it's a little higher, but less than
> twenty times more is typical.
>
> In the US it's 300 times more.
>
> At what point does it become greed, and should we ever think that is bad?



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