Your POV is one way of looking at it. Another one is that the companies that we work for make insane profits despite the sky high compensation. In isolation,

Your POV is one way of looking at it. Another one is that the companies that we work for make insane profits despite the sky high compensation. In isolation, without major legislation that depresses those profits too, it at least makes more sense to share the spoils with the shareholders and the employees than with the shareholders alone. I didn’t think it would happen at the time, but compensation saw a significant jump in the years after the compensation cartel (Apple, Google, Intuit etc.) was broken up.