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It makes me a little bit ill that this guy gets paid $50k for a single speaking gig.

Even we assume that those speaking events are net profitable fundraisers (an assumption I sincerely doubt), I have to question a system that pays anyone a third of a year's salary (in San Francisco) for a single evening of work. How many employees could have been retained last year by not paying this guy to expound upon tired clichés over rubber chicken?

I'm willing to bet many of the gigs are from big corporations who often love cliches and making up superfluous words.