Must… restrain… fist of death…

The Financial Times has a special report out: “Barons of Bankruptcy.” It reveals that the top management of the 25 biggest recent US corporate collapses walked away with (or, more properly, stole) more than US$3.3 BILLION in compensation! Holy spit! That’s hard to imagine.
Lots of people find it fashionable to crack on CEOs like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs (particularly Gates, who is unfairly dammed even in the midst of huge charitable giving–“oh, $25m is just a drop in the bucket!”, they say)– but they never engaged in this kind of flagrant dishonesty (well, OK, Oracle did). Disgusting.