What are the better ways to address the perverse incentives that trap people in poverty? Also, do you think the current distribution of incomes is proportional

What are the better ways to address the perverse incentives that trap people in poverty? Also, do you think the current distribution of incomes is proportional to how much wealth is produced? Does an executive who makes a hundred times as much as a skilled worker work a hundred times harder, or produce a hundred times as much value for people, in some measurable way?