The can't answer that. If they do, it basically presents a Marxist or Communist system.
Oh no it doesn't. There are some companies [Costco, Trader Joe's] who do not pay the CEO in billions, while treating those at the lower end as disposable, and they make enough profit to satisfy themselves, every single year.
When the CEO made 100 times the lowest wage in his company, no one cared, because back then, even the lowest wage could support a single person in a modest way. But since no one complained, the CEOs kept finding ways to give more to themselves and less to everyone they didn't care about, because hey "There's more where they came from." Now, a CEO makes more than 850 times as much, and the people on the other end don't get a raise for years [and are told to be glad they have a job!]
The number of ways corporations have found to minimize the cost of labor is just mind boggling, from outsourcing, to using temporary workers, replacing full time workers with part time [no benefits = more profit], contract & seasonal workers, and let's not forget independent contractors, either. Somewhere, I have a list with at least 15 more ways than I can think of off hand, to lower the cost of workers. And is anyone seriously suggesting that the CEOs aren't taking in ridiculous amounts of money, year after year? And what kind of value does a venture capital outfit actually add to the economy? ZERO. They simply find a company that's in trouble, [but has a solid credit rating], offer to 'rescue' them, bribe the 'key' people with big bonuses for staying on, then give them a [boilerplate] plan that lays off half the workers, requires the rest to make up for it, [which they do, because they still have a job, at least], pays the big bonuses with money borrowed against the good credit, pay themselves a hefty fee for fixing everything, and then sell the company and go find another to work their magic on. Lather, rinse, repeat. These vultures add a lot to their own bank accounts [offshore, of course, you won't catch them paying taxes on it], but they leave a lot of misery behind for all the workers who had a job, many for decades. When they can't get another, they get called lazy and entitled, like they chose to be unemployable and scared, right?
I don't know what the answer is, because it means changing the "I got mine, sucks to be you" culture of selfish greed - but telling people to "be more valuable" [while education is priced out of their reach] is just adding insult to injury. Saying "become a shareholder" is a prime example of the problem: totally out of touch with the reality working people face, a real Mitt Romney/Marie Antoinette attitude, dripping with condescension for those who just want to earn enough to raise a family, buy a house, take a whole week or 2 vacation every year, and still save to send the kids to college.
Whatever "free market" "capitalism" "supply & demand" excuses you make, the truth is that working hard isn't enough anymore, and our society is falling apart because of it.
