• Frog@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    So when the CEO of Nintendo cut his salary due to the poor sales of the Wii U and every American tech writer praised him for it, that was just common practice in Japan?

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      They have to try reducing or eliminating the costs at the upper levels before trying to fire the wage slaves in Japan, so yes.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      He voluntarily cut his salary in half. That’s more along the lines of taking responsibility than shoring up the company. CEO pay is a tiny percentage of revenue, despite what lemmy thinks. To make a serious dent, pay would have to be cut across all the C suite, and much deeper.