generalize CEOs as terrible people regardless of how good they are at their job, how ethical they are, how much they risk, or how much they get paidThe opposite is the case, at least with sane people. There are of course always people who are just stupid and hate everyone who achieves more than they do. Those don't really count, though... there's no way you can argue with them anyway.
What the widespread hate among conscious people towards executives is about is the fact that they get paid hundred thousands of bonus per year even if they lost half of their investors' money in a poker game and spent the other half playing golf and during orgies on the company yacht.
Look, nobody (nobody who is sane) minds if someone who delivers good work gets a good pay. Good work requires good pay, otherwise where would be the incentive to deliver good work.
What people don't agree with is when some farker is responsible for losing their life savings in "totally safe" shady trades, and 2,000 people are laid off for economic reasons, but there's still enough left for him to withdraw 1.2 million. People also don't like to hear in the news that their hard earned money was used to pay hookers and cocaine at company events, and that nothing is done about it. On the other hand, if you're 2 months late with the technical inspection on your car, you're being fined. This can leave no other impression with the common man than that the entire so-called constitutional state is a joke.
What people don't agree with is when some farker abdicates after being found guilty of fraud and tax fraud, and just states "Oh, that's ok, I'll just pay my... uh... outstanding... tax". He then takes his leave with a compensation of 15 million, which he uses to pay his tax debt, and everything is forgotten, charges dropped.
Three months later, he has a ghostwriter publish a book about his interesting life (which a surprising amount of people buy...), and six months later he is the CEO in another big company, or advisor to a minister, or something the like.
Every other person found guilty of something much less severe would go to jail. That is what people are increasingly angry about.
What people don't agree with is when some farker takes up a public office, serves a total failure for 6 months and then sues the state because a mere tax-free 200k per year plus a free armoured car, two body guards, a secretary, and an office for life time is not enough (in addition to the already generous pension that he's getting anyway).
