OK...but without founders like Gates and Ellison where would our wealth come from? There's a very simple solution if an investor doesn't approve of the compensation plan for a company CEO, don't buy the stock. I agree that there aren't any CEO's worth the 10's of millions of dollars they receive in annual compensation, but when I look around the world, the economies that do best all have competitive capitalistic economic models and one judge of success has always been the wealth of the populace, including millionaires and billionaires.