A lot of people find moral value in a meritocracy. This "success to the successful" shows the limits.

A lot of people would agree that if someone is 5x smarter and work 5x more than someone else, then making 25x more money could be fair.

My intuitive take is that our system rewards those people with a lot more than x25... this article seems to go in the same direction.

If that is true, is it morally fair? What would be fair? Do we even care about fairness?