Let me be clear: whether a CEO’s personal spending is excessive is a separate moral and political debate. It doesn’t, on its own, determine if the price of a service is justified.
LEt me be clear: It absolutely does. I can’t think of a better indicator.
Actually, it’s a terrible indicator, because it’s completely disconnected from the service you’re evaluating. Your anger is about wealth inequality and the ethics of extreme capitalism, which is a totally valid topic. But you’re using that anger to answer a different question: ‘What is a fair price for this service?’
But you are insisting on using that separate topic as the only metric for this one. Since we’re fundamentally talking about two different issues and you’re refusing to engage with the point about service value, I don’t see this conversation being productive any longer.
It’s not separate at all. It’s very simple: if it was a good value, he wouldn’t have all of that money. The fact that he’s absurdly wealthy is a direct indicator that it’s a poor value.
LEt me be clear: It absolutely does. I can’t think of a better indicator.
Actually, it’s a terrible indicator, because it’s completely disconnected from the service you’re evaluating. Your anger is about wealth inequality and the ethics of extreme capitalism, which is a totally valid topic. But you’re using that anger to answer a different question: ‘What is a fair price for this service?’
But you are insisting on using that separate topic as the only metric for this one. Since we’re fundamentally talking about two different issues and you’re refusing to engage with the point about service value, I don’t see this conversation being productive any longer.
It’s not separate at all. It’s very simple: if it was a good value, he wouldn’t have all of that money. The fact that he’s absurdly wealthy is a direct indicator that it’s a poor value.