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0 pointssytelus5y ago0 comments

If you are responsible and accountable for $5B revenues and associated decisions, won’t you agree you deserve 0.5% of that revenue? This is generally accepted reasonable management fees for things like index funds. Your credit card company or your iOS platform or Uber takes much bigger cuts.

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pembrook5y ago

Management fees on index funds are trending towards zero for a reason. Just because it’s generally accepted doesn’t make it correct.

It was generally accepted 15 years ago that paying 2 and 20 in fees for a hedge fund was reasonable compensation.

Then everybody realized that 98%+ of hedge funds aren’t providing alpha and were basically stealing money from the ignorant.

A similar realization will eventually happen on exec compensation as we get more data.

zxcmx5y ago

Maybe we should give the president a share of GDP?

maerF0x05y ago

Recently I had been thinking what if we pay all elected officials this way, except as something like a multiplier on the median income in the country... GDP growth could be few getting a lot richer or many getting moderately richer.

Their pay increases would be inflation indexed and tied to "rising tides lift all boats"

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