The productive risk in building businesses is borne by entrepreneurs and their initial venture investors, who do contribute real investing dollars to create real wealth. Rising employee income is not seen as a measure of corporate success. Indeed, gains to employees are losses to the corporation. They have no claim on wealth they create, no say in governance, and no vote for the board of directors. Employees are not citizens of corporate society, but subjects.
Corporations exist to enrich investors alone.
In the corporate society, only those who own stock can vote. This recalls America before the mid-1800s, when only those who owned land could vote. We think of this as the natural law of the free market, but it is more accurately the result of a corporate governance structure that violates free market principles. In a free market, everyone scrambles to get what he or she can, and they keep what they earn. In the construct of the corporation, one group gets what another earns.