I believe that these individuals are by and large grossly overpaid for the value (if much) that they provide to their corporations. Usually, it is labor that gets cut in order to trim expenses, even though we indirectly collect every nickel of profit that the corporation makes. (In my industry, at least) To me, it makes much more sense to chop ten million off of one salary rather than lay off 1000 people costing $10,000 too much in terms of labor. (yearly)
The American Dream has already been poisoned and taken over by the 1% U.S. monied class, and its about time that the blue collar workers reclaimed their justified share.