CEO pay seems to have rocketed in recent decades. Guess who gets to decide it? I think it's pretty obscene really and they ought to be taxed more. Yes I do think taxation is valid. It's not like they will suffer if they make $60m instead of $80m. Of chouse loopholes need to be closed to stop them dodging it.
For the rest of us it needs to be viable to earn a living wage. If you choose to work for yourself then it's up to you to make it work. I've always been a 'wage slave', but I like the certainty of getting paid :)
You can certainly work on yourself to be more valuable if you're employed. You can also work on yourself to add more value if you're in a band :)
If someone is content with how much money they are making, that's fine. For anybody out there wanting to earn a bit more, my advice is to focus on creating more value and they will figure out a way.
As for CEO salaries, I'm positive not a single one of them would suffer from being slapped with extra taxes on their already obscene paychecks, haha.