[BillSaysThis]

We have one story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 about a startup promising to identify factory workers giving, by management definition, less than 100% and yet CEOs can run multiple companies, take board seats, and oversee the American government. Of course the last one of those is so far adding huge value to all the others…

[ryandrake]

It's very interesting who's allowed to do what...

- CEO running multiple companies: "Genius! Superstar! Incredible!"

- Working class guy working multiple jobs: "Hard worker! Hustler! Lifting his family out of poverty!"

- Office worker with more than one full-time job: "Overemployed! Fraud! Double-dipping!"

[johnnyanmac]

Yeah. They don't care what you do outside of work until you're salaried. But that goes away too once you're paid to "supervise" instead of work. It's a weird valley.

[georgemcbay]

> yet CEOs can run multiple companies, take board seats, and oversee the American government

...don't forget also playing Path of Exile 2 80 hours a week...

kinda funny that even after that came out and everyone had a laugh nobody really asked if maybe his real contributions on the business side of things are just as illusionary as his gaming accomplishments.

He seems to have a default assumption himself that if left unchecked each IC in his companies and the federal government aren't providing value commiserate with their compensation... and these days when it comes to people involved in politics I just assume based on accumulated evidence that every accusation is a confession.

[Ancalagon]

just a magnified and more common trend of managers taking credit for the actual work done by their subordinates