"To the CEO salary vs. labor dispute:
It's a simple supply and demand situation. People who drive trucks, bake bread, and stand on assembly lines are 100% fungible. They could be replaced by a !@#$ing monkey, and aren't a value add to the company. They are essentially machine parts whose greatest contribution is being affordable, and showing up every day. In down economies they become even more replacable as the pool of fungible labor grows.
On the other hand, CEOs who can rescue a large company from bankruptcy are few and far between, and the compensation package nessecary to attract these types of individuals must be competitive with other companies, and account for scarcity.
The CEO is valuable and the laborer is not. End of story." -TYTT
shockingly enough some people are so thin skinned that they are offended to be compared to !@#$ing monkeys or machine parts and to be told they are without value-weird.