Executive pay is what it is because the system is very, very broken.
The manners in which it has been systemically broken and remains broken through the collusion of the infinitesimally small number of people occupying the roles of winner are well documented, indeed, they are trivial to enumerate.
I'll say it again. In the future, that we let these systems degrade to this point will be viewed with horror, and the same sort of moral incomprehension that we now claim to hold with respect to slavery and every other human failing.
I hope my children see the day. If they don't it's because things have continued to slide in the other direction, which means things are going to live in a nightmare.