We don’t adjust salary for what proportions people manage or are responsible for in a lot of other fields, at least not to the same extend. And especially if we would go by responsibility. I earn about 3 times as much as the average school teacher in my home town and about 4 times as much as the people driving the buses there while I sit in front of my screen and fix irrelevant css bugs or spin up the next semi-useful microservice for a cross financed project that nobody really cares about except and that doesn’t really help anybody. Their responsibility and utility is much greater than mine. If they fuck up it has much larger and potentially grave consequences. If I fuck up there will be a Jira ticket and a semi-interested PM who will assign it to me 3 weeks down the line. Furthermore this relation does not automatically imply fairness. And on the outside it also appears very asymmetric in personal risk. A megacorp CEO might tank the entire company and can often still walk away with millions. So if we wanted a “fairness” optimized solution then maybe it should take into account the public utility, difficulty of the job, amount of work required and personal risk. And maybe, (just maybe) we don’t need anyone being arbitrarily wealthy and having more assets than some developing countries.