With CEO pay increasing 27 times faster than worker pay since 1978 a substantially greater increase than the value of corporate equity as measured by the growth of the stock market during the same period and far more substantial than the measly 5.7 percent growth in employee wages over the same time frame the stellar profit numbers should not come as a great surprise to anyone.

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