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Ah, so Steve jobs was worth $1/year.


$1 CEO salaries are just to let them avoid paying FICA (Medicare/Medicaid). Don't be fooled by this marketing tactic which is really just a tax dodge.


Sigh. In what version of the world do you believe Steve Jobs ever went a year of making $1? Even if his tax return showed income of $1 for that year (it never did) the net worth of his assets increased significantly during the year and the value of that would be captured eventually.


I don't, but people who believe one silly thing often believe others so I thought you might. Let's go with some other examples: open source software. Breastfeeding. Ooh, how about literally every person in America under 10 years old? They're all worthless and society wouldn't be negatively affected if they disappeared out of existence? After all, close enough to 0 of them are being paid by anyone.


Her got paid by stock dividend. Had a pretty important share in Apple Inc.




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