There's a loophole in the law for performance-based pay (like options), but the law still stands as a stark statement about pay equity.

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In any event the sin in corporate pay is not so much its magnitude as the fact that it is often completely decoupled from performance, as Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk has documented.

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Mr. Law's performance gains straight-line intensity as his character grows ever more desperate.

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