That's exactly my point. There's no way, I don't think, we can say if we redistributed the CEOs bonus that that $3,000 would still be there. We need some evid

That's exactly my point. There's no way, I don't think, we can say if we redistributed the CEOs bonus that that $3,000 would still be there. We need some evidence to show the factors leading up to the availability of those $3,000 would still be intact with the bonus incentive removed. One could make the completely unfounded conjecture that perhaps everyone would make $3,000 LESS if the CEO didn't have a bonus incentive. Now that would not be supported by any facts, but then again neither is the suggestion you can just nix the CEO bonus incentive and expect the performance to support that $3000/ea extra money still being there. Remember wealth doesn't have to be zero-sum.