<i>&quot;While CEO do tend to be more on market value.</i>&quot;<p>When market value is set by the CEOs themselves, the trend in market value is ever upward, as long as there is no pressure in the opposite direction. The highest paid executives have seen their share of the pie grow drastically over the past couple of decades, while fantasy stories of their importance and value get passed around to convince everyone that a CEO making 250 times the average worker salary is perfectly reasonable.<p>Competence has value, but the royal treatment of C-levels is absurd.