>The people who decide where money gets allocated are allocating most of it to themselves The difference is that the people who decide to pay the CEO so much a

>The people who decide where money gets allocated are allocating most of it to themselves The difference is that the people who decide to pay the CEO so much are the ones who made the money (the company owners), it's their money to spend how they see fit. In the government it's not people spending their own money, they're spending other people's money that they obtained through the threat of jail for those who don't pay it.