01-10-2012, 04:36 PM
Obviously, some of you are troubled by Cook's compensation (and the probable lack of compensation to overseas workers). If that is the case, beat your drum, start a campaign and stop buying Apple products to demonstrate your resolve. Perhaps this will result in mass support which will pressure Apple to make changes. Bear in mind that if it was Jobs at the helm, the answer would probably be F-Off and here's a vegan pie to suck on, but it will probably be similar with Cook (albeit without the tasteless vegan pie).
Jobs made one dollar per year and everyone acts like he was the most selfless CEO in history. He was a prick - and it's well know how much of a prick he was. He demanded stock options (that made him even wealthier than when he came back in 1997), he demanded a Gulfstream jet - and I don't know how many of you have operated a private jet but it ain't cheap! Jobs was very well taken care of while working for Apple. Cook is continuing that but without the veil of a one dollar salary.
I don't really care what Apple pays Cook. Or Jobs. Or anyone within the company. Heck, I don't care what their contractors pay their Chinese employees. This is capitalism and if I really thought that the social impact of Apple outweighed the benefit I get from using their products, I would stop buying them.
But I'm okay with Cook being paid millions, Apple HQ making a median income, Apple Store employees being paid minimum wage and being treated like dogs and overseas Chinese workers taking it in the neck - so long as I get my Apple products to help me work easier and stave off being fired from my own job while taking it in the neck for my boss...
Jobs made one dollar per year and everyone acts like he was the most selfless CEO in history. He was a prick - and it's well know how much of a prick he was. He demanded stock options (that made him even wealthier than when he came back in 1997), he demanded a Gulfstream jet - and I don't know how many of you have operated a private jet but it ain't cheap! Jobs was very well taken care of while working for Apple. Cook is continuing that but without the veil of a one dollar salary.
I don't really care what Apple pays Cook. Or Jobs. Or anyone within the company. Heck, I don't care what their contractors pay their Chinese employees. This is capitalism and if I really thought that the social impact of Apple outweighed the benefit I get from using their products, I would stop buying them.
But I'm okay with Cook being paid millions, Apple HQ making a median income, Apple Store employees being paid minimum wage and being treated like dogs and overseas Chinese workers taking it in the neck - so long as I get my Apple products to help me work easier and stave off being fired from my own job while taking it in the neck for my boss...