Yeah, I would much rather live in a world where some disconnected busybody goes around assigning salaries to everyone based on $CURRENT_SOCIAL_TREND, than to have wealthy people who feel guilty about their earnings. /s
They are indeed barking up the wrong tree. Rather than asking what Deloitte pays this guy, they need to be asking what the government pays Deloitte and for what?
That's 'too hard', and attracts too much attention to themselves.