The problem is that a lot of that investment has been a miss-allocation, i.e. the money should have been directed elsewhere (schools? hospitals? real businesses

The problem is that a lot of that investment has been a miss-allocation, i.e. the money should have been directed elsewhere (schools? hospitals? real businesses?). Given that much of what we do is not actually that useful in the big scheme of things, I would suspect our inflated pay is somewhat unearned (though paling in comparison to top exec pay)