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My point is that it's ridiculous to try to justify golden parachutes for bad CEOs using fake math, and the fact that the market bears these kinds of contracts isn't evidence on its own that they are good.



So business decisions that use uncertain numbers are "fake math"?

You realize that with the narrow exception of a few quant traders, you've pretty much described all business decisions.


The fact that most business decisions are made by gut feeling implies that post-hoc pseudo-mathematical rationalization shouldn't be called out as bullshit?




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