Clawback CEO Overpay
C.E.O. Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Companies Battered by Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/business/ceos-pandemic-compensation.html
China's take down of Jack Ma could be the model for adjusting executive rewards closer to those of workers who produce the profits. But US political leaders lack the guts to rein in the plutocrats who fund them.
Or more likely the faint-hearted politicos fear the stigma of challenging capitalism, afraid of the socialist and communist stigmata so rapidly arrowed at any backslider who wavers in blind faith in money-talks-loudest religion, cash-greedy religions themselves at the forefront of greed-is-great hosannah rituals.
Can anything be done to rein in the wildebeests being piled with moola ever higher on a few titans annually celebrated as the highest paid in business, sports, entertainment, cyber tech, telecom, industry, the gamut of golden calves, pardon the wildebeest wit.
Would harsh taxation do it, or does it take a merciless take down of income,nay, confiscation, fines, clawbacks, cracking safes and raids of offshore hideouts by SEC, Attorney General, Supreme Court, Congress, POTUS, golly, by the top spy agencies so deft at emptying criminal coffers by Stuxnet-grade implants and siphons.
Sure, there's a handy intel unit for doing just that, aptly titled Special Collection Service, based in a Maryland greensward jam-packed with very smart burglary devices to get inside hoards of gelt and grab them for taking back home, to stash at Fort Knox, or NY Federal Reserve Bank, or Cheyenne Mountain or that unnamed Navy bunker under East Potomac Park, tunneled to Casa Blanca.