Same as it ever was. People like to look back to a far gone time when things were better. But the truth of the matter is that things were lousy back then, too.
Untrue.
Used to be that a company didn't disproportianately pay the top members of a corporation such a high percentage of the company's cash.
I believe that the top parts of the corporation now keep ten times a higher percentage than they used to retain. I don't remember the exact figures but I'll try and track them down.
I also know that companies routinely lay off employees while granting unbelievable amounts of money to its officers, even as a company goes under, as witnessed quite often in the news over the last few years.
This is a relatively new behavior, and as far as I'm concerned incredibly criminal.
Steal twenty-one dollars from a 7-11, go to prison. Take a few billion from a corporation that you've just let to its destruction, retire to your mansion, courtesy of the cash lined pockets of your local politician.