{"id":9158,"date":"2009-06-16T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2009-06-16T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:27:09","slug":"forward-bashes-ceo-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9158","title":{"rendered":"Forward Bashes CEO Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.tjctv.com\/2009\/06\/why-the-forward-is-wrong-on-j-org-ceo-pay\">Steven I. Weiss writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Singling out CEOs as the culprits behind economic woes is nothing new, but  the <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/107557\/\">blame laid at heads of Jewish  organizations by the <em>Forward<\/em> this week<\/a> for not cutting their salaries  while laying-off staff doesn&rsquo;t have a correlation with the way the economics of  these things really works. This is suggestive of a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.tjctv.com\/2009\/02\/yu-layoffs-the-fallibility-of-laypersonomics\/\">general  problem with lay-personomics<\/a>, whereby people who make lots of money to do  their jobs seem to be hated for that reason alone, and those who make less are  seen as entitled to a specific slice of CEOs&rsquo; pie.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Forward<\/em> gets it wrong on five points:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) J-Org Jobs Aren&rsquo;t <em>Tzedakah<\/em>, Nor an  Entitlement<\/strong><br \/>\nBy suggesting in the first place that CEOs should be taking  pay-cuts to keep laid-off staff around, the <em>Forward<\/em> seems to think that  ensuring the college-educated, middle-class-or-better employees at J-orgs still  have jobs is the business of what J-orgs do as part of their charitable mission.  But the reason a J-org employee is employed is not to be doing good for that  employee, but to ask that employee to do good for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven I. Weiss writes: Singling out CEOs as the culprits behind economic woes is nothing new, but the blame laid at heads of Jewish organizations by the Forward this week for not cutting their salaries while laying-off staff doesn&rsquo;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[17997,17998,17996,1603,17999,14837],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steven-i-weiss","tag-ceo-pay","tag-charitable-mission","tag-economic-woes","tag-jewish-organizations","tag-lots-of-money","tag-tzedakah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}