Should a cleaner be paid the same as a CEO?
TL;DR answer: Not the same, but not such a sharp difference. Long answer: I would make payment relate to the value brought to the company or organisation in terms of the actions done by the person which bring profitability and sustainability to the organisation, with a salary cap of maximum 10x salary difference, or some other such arbitrary metric. So for example, a person who lays bricks is the person who actually makes the house. The man driving the "bakkie" (pickup truck) merely watches him and brokers his labour. That is not entirely valueless, because without the labour broker who gives the builder "credibility" in the eyes of the probably racist customers, the bricklayer would not have work at all. But the labour broker certainly does not deserve MORE money than the bricklayer. At worst, they should split the profit equally. My dad had this policy. He was a labour broker for a welder. He gave the welder most of the profit since the welder did the work. My d