Rereading your post, I note the following non-sequitur.
You compare ALL CEOs with a single company.
What you should do is compare the R&D expenditures of that company with TOTAL EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION, the CEO plus all of the rest of senior management.
Also, I simply don't believe that the Fortune 500 CEOs get a mere five billion among them. That amounts to only 5,000,000,000 / 500 = 10,000,000 each. I frankly think that they get paid much more.
David F Mayer
