We gotta pay for leadership. Otherwise they'll just go to the private sector and get real money. Despite lemmy's loathing of CEOs, they run the show and the entire company culture flows down from them. Ever worked a shit job? Had a sweet job? Ask yourself, how did the CEO act? Same for politicians.

I can counter my own argument by saying that most of their money comes from other sources once elected. Some of that money is fine, much is immoral. So it goes.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Obviously, we should pay congresspeople a living wage. I’m not sure that’s controversial. $6k a year is too low, $150k is too high.

Those CEOs you’re talking about are good right where they are. I want AOC, not Tim Cook.