[Mase]

While I believe paying the CEO 50X what the average worker makes is excessive

That tells me there's a supply problem. Being a CEO must be a pretty tough job since since it looks like good ones are hard to find.

[DManA]

If that were the case then there's be a handful of extremely successful, extremely high paid executives. Seems to me that high top exectutive wages are being showered pretty indiscriminatingly. Sometimes with above average results, more times not.

[1rudeboy]

There are a lot of people (not all necessarily here) that truly believe CEO's have a 9-to-5 job, and spend as much time at the club as at the office.