Should elon musk have gotten his 55 Billion pay package?

[Randy888]

Yes he should of got it

No I agree with the judge

[shortster]

The board agreed to it. So he should have gotten paid it. Let's say the board sets factory floor salaries to $55/hr; if the stock holders disagree and say it should only be $25/hr. You don't take the money back from the factory workers. You either fire the board, set the workers pay going forward to $25/hr, or both.

[goaded]

You think Musk is worth a billion hours (over 100,000 years constant work) of an employee's pay at a rate you seem to think is ridiculous? (I don't know why you think that; his companies do skilled work.)

The stock holders quite reasonably don't want billons of profits taken away from them.

[shortster]

I am saying that they agreed to pay him that. So he should be able to keep what they already paid him. If they want to renegotiate his pay going forward, okay. But they shouldn't take back what the company has already paid him.

[RefriedBeans]

Of course.