What about the teachers who invest many years of time into education and learning?? How about the Doctors and most lawyers?? They don't make anywhere near what the top 1% makes?? True a company needs a strong CEO to be successful. However the op's post saying that those who work hard deserve to be insanely rich is wrong. Many people work insanely hard not just the CEO. Fact is no matter how smart or hardworking everyone becomes not everyone can be a CEO. Well I think anything involving ethics must have a moral basis right? I am just saying that it is incorrect to say that how much money you make is a precise indicator of how hardworking or intelligent you are. You're doing the same thing. You're putting a value on the CEO's work. I am just comparing the CEO's value compared to the 400 other people that the CEO makes just as much maybe even more money than them all combined.