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It is a strawman because he brought in the personal by saying "why don't you start your own company if you think pay is too high?" Exactly the same as film maker just saying "why don't you make your own movie if you want to criticize mine?"

Same as crypto defenders "why don't you short crypto if you think it is a scam?"

Anyway, I'm repeating myself already, good conversation, Thanks.

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“bringing in the personal” as you put it is a great tool here that separates the wheat from the chaff. It’s very easy to say “I work hard, sometimes for long hours, I don’t see much difference between what I do and founders, surely they shouldn’t be paid that much more than me”, but the reality is that it _is_ that much harder and riskier and beneficial to society, and the profits reaped are evidence.

So you’re more than welcome to criticize, but they’re “cheap seats” comments to a certain degree.

To stay objective about it though, the financial incentive brings a lot of innovation which helps all of society. They’re not taking your piece of the pie, they just baked some more.

I answered the idea of "fair" compensation, but you don't seem interested in talking about that.

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