If our government is seriously concerned with rising inequality, it will respond to this latest installment of the "first day of work in the new year" news. The tax system is the most effective way to do so. Don't let the corporations write off all these wages as an expense, and claw back a big chunk from their recipients.

No one earns these wages. They get them. These CEO's all sit on each others boards and scratch each others' backs.  Galbraith in the 50's wrote of the rise of this Managerial Class. These are not entrepreneurs, capitalists, innovators. These are managers. 

Another problem is the creation of a whole new class of plutocrats as their children inherit this wealth.