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by hnbroseph 2674 days ago
> Everyone is free to be a CEO.

this is such a thoroughly trivial and simplistic observation, that it contains basically zero useful information.

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He's saying that everybody can run their own business. If it's so easy as people try to make it out to be, then why doesn't everybody do it? The answer is that it is too difficult. He's trying to make people realize why these top CEOs are paid so much.
given how poor the correlation is between ceo pay and performance, this isn't clear.