Listen, if the company is making the kinds of profits that let someone take in $28k a minute (or even a lot less), they can afford profit-sharing. If they're making that much money, then the employees are absolutely helping the company make more than you claim. Plus, that theory is a bit skewed on other fronts as well. You can't tell me that teachers, for example, lack the skills and that their jobs are so unimportant that they deserve to be paid so much less than other people with similar levels of education. And don't talk about the "summers off." Most teachers I know either work second jobs to make ends meet, or they are back in school to maintain their certifications and/or gain their masters' degrees. And these days, most teachers are back in the job market within five years, looking for better employment. Which means our kids are getting short shrift, being taught by youngsters without much experience, and the rare exception, those who feel so called to it that they're willing to sacrifice.
And the sad fact is, "the norm" is not as advantaged as you might think. A person with average intelligence, average skillsets, just needs to run into one problem - a health issue, for example - and suddenly he's unemployed or underemployed. If you look at the stats, "average" income is not very much.
I have another friend who's worked 20 years for a mining company as a legal secretary, makes $30k, and for the last decade has had to work a 2nd job to afford anything beyond the mean necessities. After 20 years of her life, the company will give her a whopping $900 a month in retirement benefits - until she gets SSI. Then it drops quite a bit. And the company recently sued current retirees to force them to agree to let the company quit paying its share for health insurance. Had she known that the company was going to pull that, she would've gone and done something else. But she's got 2 years to retire - at this point, she's pretty much stuck with whatever they'll spare her, because it's too late to start over somewhere else. You might say she should've quit some time ago and found better employment, but like so many, she has disadvantages that keep her from doing that. She has some health issues that make it tough to insure her, and a lot of companies won't even hire people like that.
What I think is amazing is that I have friends who have less education than she has, who were fortunate to stumble into jobs with companies that care more about their employees, and these people seem to think that they somehow earned the better deal, and by implication that she deserves to get stiffed.