Say what you like about the billionaires currently conspiring to get even richer over lobster supper in Davos, while 800 million people across the world go to bed hungry – at least they know their worth.
The Chief Executive Officer class doesn’t bother with sub-inflation pay packages when the annual reports come in, even if their decisions have caused losses.
Instead, they award themselves industry-beating rates, knowing that when raging MPs want answers to why they earn 100 times more than their average worker, they can simply tell them “it’s the market, stupid”.
