I think DUmmies would lose their shit at the level of compensation in the real, non-CEO world. My hourly jack comes out to abour $160/hr, and I am not at the top of the heap at all. I know many, many people who are not employed by Blackwater or Goldman Sachs who do substantially better than I do, and a lot of people who make less but still in excess of $100/hr.
That's the economy for productive, valuable people who know how to get along with others. People who don't have time to make excuses for why they refuse to get along with others, refuse to fall into line, refuse to be part of a team, and so on. Every single workplace story they concoct has them butting heads with their coworkers over politics. That makes them assholes, not firebrands, and explains why they can't get jobs, and if they have jobs, why they can't get paid.