Re: Earned?
How dare you suggest this man isn't worth this excess as compensation for his grand strategy and supreme vision!
Clearly he personally does all the work, planning, development, testing, marketing, maintenance, IT, cloud infrastructure design and management, HR, and everything else that makes a mega-corp tick, all of which has led to this year's $5B+ profit, so he clearly deserves this fat payout.
It's got absolutely nothing to do with forcing all your customers to a subscription model because there's no realistic competion, and/or the cost to migrate is too great for many customers to bear, then sitting back and doing fuck all of value while the cash rolls in.
Why should the ants scurrying beneath his feet see any of that phat wad. They're just worthless minions, a huge cost sink, and sooner they can be replaced with the cheapest possible labour regardless of output quality, the better.
</sarc> (in case it wasn't immediatly obvious)