Because CEO incomes have been rising exponentially while 90% of other incomes are stagnating or in decline. According to my research Chipotle employs approximately fifty-nine thousand workers (rounded down). Chipotle's two CEOs made between them fifty-seven million dollars (also rounded down) last year. If both CEOs gave up just one million dollars of compensation to go toward employee wages then each employee could have a dollar raise. Far more than that if we restrict that raise to just the part-timers who are on the front lines making the product and interfacing with customers.

Now who needs almost thirty million dollars a year to live on? Sure, you may think the Chipotle CEOs are worth a lot of money but compared to the people who are actually taking money from customers and delivering the final product? The disparity is a little too much. Fifty years ago the average CEO made a little over fifty times what their employees made, and that number has skyrocketed to over two hundred times.

Somebody's getting screwed here, and it's not the management.