Although we barely see a rise in minimum wage, or income to middle class families, we see the stock market hitting large scales, and growing pretty rapidly. Companies tend to focus on short term growth through- buybacks (55%), investors(39%) and (6%) towards development, which of course is not healthy for long term economics, Even laying off workers keeping wages low, closing factories is bad for the economy overall but can be great for the companies short term profits and that's what the stock market cares about.
Since the stock market grows so does the salary of the CEO's salary does, like in 1973- they made 22x of what the workers made and in 2016- 271x of what the employees made. since the market rides, so does the economy.
The stock holders can decide what which company is worth the gamble and how it wiloll behave.
