The million bucks figure I brought up for argument's sake was someone's salary. Payroll is part of the company's budget. How many CEOs take their own money to hire new people? Isn't that exactly what happens? When the budget is figured out, salaries is one part of the equation. If the CEO gets $750,000 instead of $1M, that means there's $250,000 more to allocate to other budgetary issues, which includes the general salary pool. This point is brought home much more clearly when you consider a small business--maybe 3 or 4 employees, where the owner may not take a salary at all in the first couple years of the business so that he/she can afford to pay needed employees. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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