I have no idea. My point is that obviously these CEO's are bring tremendous value to the companies they run and are compensated in a manner reflective of that. Question. Is it possible that 2 people can have 2 different skill sets and 1 is more valuable to a company than the other?
Nobody is arguing that the CEO should not be paid more. But CEOs in the 70s made about 30x that of the average worker. Now they make 300x more to do the same job. It doesn't take a genius to figure out something is wrong with that stat. Sorry but they aren't 10x more valuable to a company now.
I think you are getting hung on on the raw power of the numbers. I would agree that something is wrong with that stat. However, penalizing someone for pursuing the American dream is not the answer. If that stat is to be changed its incumbent on the person that seeks that same level of wealth to do what is necessary to gain the skill sets to accomplish that goal. Wealth by its very nature is not limited. Most people just don't know how to obtain it.
Hmmm, but what if blockades are set, and stumbling blocks are placed in front of people on purpose, virtually making it impossible for them to obtain the same results as the other had, even though they are just as talented and aggressive as the other person is, but yet the draw bridge had been lifted quickly on them by the one who had blazed the trail before or the path had been erased so that no one can venture down it, or even get a peak at how it was done, can be done, or is even allowed of them to do it ? Lets face it, people need people to envy and drewl over what they have in life, and as long as this is the case, we will see many different strategies take place upon how one keeps the other out of the circle in which they want to keep control of and to occupy.
I would love to see an honest society, one where if a man or woman creates something in life, then it is not stolen from him or her for whom are the true creators, and if a man and woman works hard and applies themselves honestly in life, it is not stolen from him or her afterwards. There is so much bad going on and/or has gone on these days, that it breaks the individual hope filled spirit into splinters.
There are so many that do not deserve what they have these days or rather have gotten it in such bad ways sadly by ill gotten gains or either they had it past down to them unfortunately for all of us whom may be affected negatively by this process that its ashamed really, where as it is the handing of someone something that they don't or did not ever deserve, and that just isn't even funny anymore by what goes on now or that is being found more and more in it all as we regress and not progress instead, and all because of this problem that has become prevalent it seems more and more in our society.
There is a generation now that has come to pass, for whom had not worked for what they were receiving, and yet it was handed down to them out of pity in hopes that it will take care of their sorry behinds in life, and it was also given them shockingly all due to their lack of hard works and ethics in which they portrayed openly to their parents and friends or even right in front of their co-workers, along with their shady character in life as well in which they did not hide, but give to them it was, because if they don't get it, their parents felt that they won't be saved in life by any other way or method than this one, so the torch was passed, even if it would affect thousands in a negative way into their futures, it was still passed down to them.
