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Owning company stock or getting a salary doesn't really matter in this case. Both are compensation.

People also get up in arms on stock grants. Look at the recent Musk case. Regardless of what you think of Musk, any TSLA investor should be ecstatic with what he did with the stock. He took most of his salary in stock and now they want it back. The main reason the numbers sound big is because the stock grew so much.



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