Can anyone name one other field of human endeavor where you are rewarded for massive failure?

[nichomachus]

In almost every field I can think of, causing a massive failure and horrendous loss of money through negligence and mismanagement will, at the very least, cost you your career. You could also face civil suits and criminal charges.

Only CEOs can fail over and over again and not only get another high-paying job in the same field -- they get a BONUS of millions of dollars for failing.

If you want to know why this is so, just go to one of the most fascinating sites on the Internet

www.theyrule.net

It's a little hard to figure out the interface, but with a little persistence, you can see how the boards of major corporations are so intertwined, they look like the aristocracy of 18th and 19th Century Europe, when everyone was related to everyone else.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Morality, according to Nietzsche, heh.

[rucky]

2. Well, there was this Japanese game show...

[Hardrada]

3. Horrendous loss of troops sometimes has helped military

careers. In WWI for example.

[Jack from Charlotte]

4. Baseball. Fail 70% of the time your a .300 hitter and are on The Allstar Team.. (NFM)

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[nichomachus]

5. Not really

Hitting the ball 3 times out of 10 is what they expect you to do. So, if you do it, you're meeting expectations. Hitting it 1 out of 10 times if failure.

I know people like to use this as some kind of an example, but it's stupid. You can't expect someone to hit a 95 mile an hour fastball or a knuckle ball every time.

In business, we could also expect that there would be an occasional loss or misjudgement -- people are only human. It's when these things are of such massive scale.

I worked for a company that, when I joined it, was on a trajectory to become a Fortune 200 company. Three years later, it was headed for the scrap heap and went belly up a few years later. The CEO who presided over this debacle, which cost a lot of people a major portion of their retirement funds, slunk away and got another job as CEO almost immediately.

[Misskittycat]

6. They should be fired immediately for cause, without any additional compensation.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. Darwin Awards

Damn I'm good ;)

[Greyhound]

8. Meteorologist? Economist? n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Nuclear warfare? Failing at bombing with nukes is good, right? n/t

[catnhatnh]

10. Yep-being single, riding bareback, and releasing millions of sperm...

It doesn't relate past you're subject line but somewhere there is a wandering analogy to a question about millions being f**k*d....

[bemildred]

11. Well, politics in the USA comes to mind.

I mean we really did bestride the world like a colossus after WWII, and we had everyone on our side too, and they have pissed it all away, put us DEEPLY in debt, made us hated, and for nothing, shallow ego gratification, greed, lust, fear, anger. Nothing.

And being right here gets you punished, too.
But yeah, I know what you mean.