Well, if one were a socialist, I suppose one would say that some of these pay 'packages' are determined by how much can be creamed off the top of the 'community' finances (community being the other 99% of the population who must muddle along at the mid-levels or the bottom of the pond... usually as an accident of birth).

I think the term I am looking for is GREED.

I wonder how many of these heroes of the city and the blue chip companies would be prepared to take a percentage of the losses too, should things go the other way.