[johnnyanmac]

>We were always told C-level compensation is as absurd as it is because they're expected to fall on their sword for fucking up.

We were? I thought it was as simple as "big leader + big company = big money". Made sense in the days where those leaders rose the company off the ground. Not so much when it's just some MBA that comes in or a friend of some other rich guy that simply wants to increase stock numbers.