We should take opportunity greed into account when we weigh these pictures in the balance. The second picture shows David Zaslaw, CEO of Discovery. His hourly compensation as the highest paid business executive in the States is 17,268 times that of the girls making shoes in Indonesia for the North American market. There is something grossly wrong about this disparity. However, we should bear in mind that the gross disparity in opportunity is even worse. Remember that possiblye half these girls could do as good a job as Zaslaw of his work, given equal opportunity.

Not all of us can be executives, but a heck of a lot more would be without the compensation disparity.