You're not asking this in good faith, but I'll give my answer anyway: companies have an interest in paying workers market wages, not more, and not much less.
Too much over the market rate, and you're not maximally efficient at converting economic inputs into larger economic outputs.
Too much under the market rate, and you'll see increased employee churn, leading to all sorts of other problems.
If you want workers to be paid more, as we all do, even us greedy capitalists, their economic productivity has to go up (not the same as working harder).
The best way to do that - as far as I know - is improving technology and education.
If you had a $100B asset, like Starbucks Inc, how much would you pay to search for and keep the right guy to run it?
The Venn diagram of people who have the diversity and depth of skills to pull off a major CEO role has a very small overlapped area.
If you choose your CEO well, you turn Apple in 1997 into Apple in 2010. If you choose poorly, your investment stagnates or evaporates.
So a couple of tens of millions in stock options are a bargain for investors. The value-add of any particular minimum wage employee, despite their equal human dignity and worth, is never going to even be in the same league.
Too much over the market rate, and you're not maximally efficient at converting economic inputs into larger economic outputs.
Too much under the market rate, and you'll see increased employee churn, leading to all sorts of other problems.
If you want workers to be paid more, as we all do, even us greedy capitalists, their economic productivity has to go up (not the same as working harder).
The best way to do that - as far as I know - is improving technology and education.