Alexandra Thornton, a senior director at the Center for American Progress, told me that she advocates a simple, clean solution to the problem: Cash compensation only for employees of start-ups, outside of a small circle of managers.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/stock-options-start-ups.html

Petrović belongs to a small circle of people trusted by the president, making him one of the most powerful people in Serbia.

Source: https://www.weeklyblitz.net/international/serbian-presidents-inner-circle-connected-to-drug-trafficking/

To do that, he hollowed out state institutions, placed loyalists in key positions, wiped out most civil society organizations, and enriched his cronies to create a small circle of loyalists around him.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/10/turkey-earthquake-erdogan-government-response-corruption-construction/