I used to work for Brown & Williamson Tobacco (though I did not receive my $608k per year), and I can absolutely attest that their profits are not as the author

I used to work for Brown & Williamson Tobacco (though I did not receive my $608k per year), and I can absolutely attest that their profits are not as the author suggests "return on talent". I worked at corporate HQ, which is probably very different from the factories where the cigarettes were actually made. The vast majority of people spent the vast majority of their time looking for work to do, because we quite literally had nothing to do. We had something like 20 corporate holidays, plus many other "bonus" holidays announced a day or two ahead of time, and many half-days. One story goes that the CEO was talking to someone about our building and someone on the street asked her "How many people work in that building", and her response was "Oh, about half".