> That's a political statement, not a law of nature.

That's the way it works in our system, which finds wages through supply and demand, which is a law of nature. You may nitpick and find a couple of salaries or other types of income that are not priced in this way, but it is generally true for the average person.

Whether that system is the best system is indeed a political question, but that's besides the point.

> Moving the mean of a distribution to "less than 20% higher" than the median is huge!

Perhaps, but it's nowhere near the 100% change that the article promises.