back to article $180,000 buys you lunch with Tim Cook as charity auction ending

The 8th annual charity auction to meet the executive of your dreams (or nightmares) is showing that lunch with Apple's big boss Tim Cook will set you back over $180,000 – other tech leaders, however, are proving less popular. The auction, run by Charitybuzz, raises money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Snorefest

    As an added bonus the $180k will enable you to indulge in a deep siesta immediately after the meal, as you recollect the soporific tales from the world's foremost corporate drone.

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

      Re: Snorefest

      It will be the bestest siesta of your life though.

  2. Goldmember

    Seriously?

    I wouldn't want to have lunch with Cook if all it cost me was the lunch.

    If he's paying though, I'm in.

  3. Adam 1

    What a bargain. To think you can be the first one to walk on the moon, win the tour de France on seven consecutive attempts and now be at the helm of the worldwide leader in drinking coasters and yet no lunch. Just shows kids why you shouldn't do drugs.

  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Headmaster

    Do not expect to get economic insights!

    $8,000 buys lunch with the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke at a restaurant of his choice

    Probably money that he lovingly printed himself a bit earlier!

    And lest we forget:

    Ben Bernanke Gets His Reward

    “Bernanke Enjoys the ‘Fruits of the Free Market,’” or so we’re told in a Reuters headline from March 4 about the former Fed chairman’s 40-minute speech in Abu Dhabi for which he received, ahem, $250,000. In the Reuters author’s defense, he was only quoting a DC lobbyist who was defending the amount, and added, Bernanke “will personally experience supply and demand.”

    Well, yes, it’s just supply and demand and all that. No big deal and if you don’t like it, you must have something against markets. Still, it would be nice (and a bigger deal) if these reporters would quote someone outside of the accepted intellectual class of the Boswash corridor so compromised by being among the primary beneficiaries of all the new money Chairman Ben and his comrades created, ex nihilo, when he wasn’t shooting baskets in the Marriner Eccles building. If they did, they might hear some healthy skepticism about these events in which top officials cash in on their “public service” via contacts with the very industries they benefited while in office.

    George Stigler explained such paybacks in his capture theory of regulation for which he received (rightly) the Nobel Prize in Economics, although I’d say they are better explained by the phrase, “quid pro and here-you-go!”

    Less-beholden observers might pause during Bernanke’s victory lap and note that the dollar has lost almost 30 percent of its value since he joined the Fed in 2002, and that’s only if you accept the lowball metrics used in official CPI statistics. It is likely twice that amount if price inflation is measured in more traditional ways, including forgotten factors such as the full inflation for out-of-pocket expenses or the cost to maintain a constant cost of living. Americans of 1977 may have had to suffer through bad hair and disco music, but at least they didn’t suffer discrepancies between (a) what they experienced the value of the dollars in their pockets to be and (b) what the government said it was. We do.

    COUGH!

    1. asdf

      Re: Do not expect to get economic insights!

      Bernanke is a twat but he probably doesn't deserve the tar and feathers near as much as Greenspan the bubble inflator (he actually thought spreading risk into the broader economy with derivatives was a great thing and fought against regulation). Still the printing himself money earlier comment was amusing.

  5. Chris Parsons

    Is there a vegetarian option?

    I think Cher would be a lot more fun and is surprisingly inexpensive.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Do the math

    Cook can only get $180K for diner but the Chinese slaves he uses net him a hundred million in annual compensation and he thinks that's just fine, thank you. The scum leading the dumb.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Do the math

      Of course, you can guarantee none of the products/components between you and this website were wholly or partly made in the same factories, by the same workers Apple uses were they?

      Nob.

    2. Steve Todd

      Re: Do the math

      And Terry Gou, the boss of Foxconn who do most of that manufacturing, is a poor, impoverished soul worth only about $5bn.

      Shock news, the head of a company always makes more money than the workforce. Other shock news, most consumer electronics these days are made by Chinese factories, mostly in worse conditions than Apple permit their contractors to apply.

  7. Peter Clarke 1

    Surprise For Tim

    If Tim thinks he's heard the last from Carl Ichan then he's mistaken. There won't be any making faces to the flunkies when they have to meet face to face instead of on the phone.

    Now, Tim, about that deal I proposed .........

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Silent lunch?

    Given Apple's PR policy, lunch with Tim Cook may go pretty quiet...

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