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Maybe because the shares are controlled by the majority shareholder and the other shareholders want some protection against that shareholder? This is why we have an SEC.


The majority shareholder has a larger chunk of the shares than he has control of the board.

A big board pay packet he has every reason to reject if it was unreasonable.


Not if he's colluding with the board to get a gigantic pay package for himself (a separate lawsuit is fighting his $56 billion pay package, calling it "the largest compensation grant in human history").




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