I appreciate your honesty Adam and I do agree that there are two sides to every story. Not every CEO is skimming money from the top and is doing nothing while their employees do all the heavy lifting. The optimist in me likes to think there are definitely some CEOs out there who actually care about their workers. Based on what you said, I believe you are the exception

The problem is I've heard routinely that most CEOs aren't like that. Most CEOs still think they're serving the customers when they have never engaged with a customer for years or even decades. This is on top of taking huge bonuses when it doesn't feel warranted. Like the example I presented before you stopped reading. In that example, writers put together scripts for some amazing shows that a lot of people watch and the CEO at the top decided instead of paying a little extra to all the people who make those shows, they decided to take all that extra money they otherwise wouldn't have and keep it for themselves.

I'm not saying CEOs shouldn't be paid anything at all, they do head the company and are equally an important role. However the gap between CEO pay and regular pay for those at the bottom is massive. One study has the ratio of CEO to typical worker pay is 399:1. Do CEOs work almost 400 times harder than your average worker? I highly doubt that.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

All in all, I appreciate your honesty and the riff on most CEOs was more of a side tangent to explain this particular point I just made. Either way, I appreciate you sharing this other side and at least gives me closure that there are some decent CEOs out there. Keep up that work.