Serious question (not flippant): what good does that do? Wal-Mart's CEO makes $35m (I think). They employ 2.1m people. He makes $16.66 per person that he ma

Serious question (not flippant): what good does that do? Wal-Mart's CEO makes $35m (I think). They employ 2.1m people. He makes $16.66 per person that he manages (indirectly, of course), per year. His salary is a drop in the bucket of what it costs to employ their workforce for a year. Comparing salaries doesn't showcase anything. How many of these high-paying CEO jobs are there? Not many! The same is true of sports--there are only so many jobs to go around, and if you're one of the rare people who can do the job, you get paid a LOT of money. Comparing salaries of highest and lowest paid people doesn't really seem useful in any way.