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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I believe it's unfair that CEO's make millions while the lowest paid workers barely make enough to get by. I believe it's unfair to make that much money while your men make minimum wage.

Like the title says, I believe presidents (of companies), CEO, and other high ranking members of management in companies make wayy too much money while the bottom of the rung employees make minum wage. Some say that is the way capitalism works. I think it's unfair. Personally, If I was the CEO of a multi billion dollar company the only way I'd pay myself millions was if my employees were banking good money. People call me a communist every time I say this. CMV

EDIT: holy cow front page. With that said thank you all for your valuable input I know understand more of the role of a CEO and why they are worth so much. It just bothers me that they can screw up, get payed millions to leave, while tons of bottom workers get nothing. 

For those of you asking "what are bottom workers worth?" it kinda saddens me you see your fellow man as a commodity with a price tag rather than a human trying to make ends meet. Front end employees are the ones running your business 100% of the time dealing with costumers and building your company image. Surely they are worth more than minimum wage. 

Again several people asked rethorical questions asking about the fairness of life. Life isn't fair, that doesn't mean we can just sit there and do nothing. Thank you all for your time.
gpt
That's not how money works. Money is not an absolute, it's an arbitrary and changing unit of worth.

Minimum wage is a floor meant to insure no one makes less than it, but it is an arbitrary number. Prices of goods and services are then set relative to wages. If everyone suddenly makes double, the cost of everything will go up as well. The workers will be no better off, and inflation will have killed whatever long term savings they might have had.

So there will always be people making the minimum. Often it's for low skill work, things that most people can do or that not produce a lot of return. If a worker is only generating $10 of work per hour you need to pay him less than $10/hour or you will be losing money. If it's something anyone can do, why is it "fair" that the company pay more than the dollar value of the work?

As for executives, they have a much more demanding job. Few people have the training and skill to administrate a large company at a high level. They are in high demand, the responsibility is huge, and there is not a large source of workers who could be substituted to do the job.

Is your complaint simply that both these things exist at the same company or that they exist at all? Because the two are not linked, minimum wage workers are not minimum wage because of executive pay or the other way around.