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Properly quantifying this is of course murky far beyond my skills (and I’m not quite sure the math is correct: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111422433783809200), but…

All that is missing the basic point: if we pay CEOs because they help companies succeed, then shouldn’t we expect a closer relationship between CEO pay growth and worker productivity growth? The way those two numbers diverge suggests instead this is a case of “those who control the money make off with the money.”