George responds:

You might want to check on the comparative wages of the Japanese and US auto
workers at the time indicated. Not to mention the pensions. Take the CEO
back to a dollar a week, and it wouldn't add a dollar a week to everyone
else.

Sheesh!

On the basis of today's CEO salaries, it sure as hell would. Drop a 100 million
buck a year man back to a buck a week, and even a company with 50,000 employees
would get a little back (about two grand a year)...but you can bet it wouldn't
go into lower echelon salaries anyway. Stockholders might see some of it, but
most would just lose visibility.

Charlie Self
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." H. L. Mencken