"The salaries of CEOs have jumped, as pay for workers has remained relatively static, or has even declined ….since 1990 the overall CEO-worker pay gap has worsened considerably. The salary of minimum-wage workers has declined after adjustment for inflation by 9 per cent in the last 15 years.” *
Epicureans, using that uncommon thing common sense, would suggest that this is not a healthy development. The American colonists, when they rebelled against the British, were also rebelling against the whole idea of hereditary aristocracy.
*James Bernstein , New York Newsday
The generation currently in charge is busy re-establishing an aristocracy of wealth and, by excusing them effectively from having to pay any kind of tax that means anything, creating an hereditary class. Dumb? Yes. Assists ataraxia? No. Long term dangerous for social cohesion? Also yes.