Loss Leaders

"Loss leaders" is the term given in retail to those goods on sale in stores and markets with prices that are ridiculously low. The store can't even make a profit on them, but they bring people in who then presumably will buy other things. I heard a report on the news that corporate bosses now earn on the average around 400 times more than the workers in their companies. Twenty years ago it was more like 40 times. These are the real loss leaders nowadays, the politicians and honchos who line their pockets while the rest of us struggle. To borrow from Paddy Chayefsky, are we mad as hell yet and unwilling to take any more?