>Be genius that knows more about a subject than 99.999% of society and invents something brilliant for the company he works for that changes the industry and earns the company billions of dollars
>Is merely compensated his meager salary while the executives become insanely rich

Why is this allowed? It feels like the people that actually make society run are never fairly compensated, for example today I've been reading about how much large corporations profit off of Free and Opensouce software for example in many cases the work is being done in the free-time by volunteers with minimal funding and full-time jobs and families of their own.