People who support senior executives making more money than the average worker might argue that executives work to protect and enhance a company's image.

executives have to make a lot of difficult decisions about business strategies.

many executives have special skills that the average employee might not have.

All of these choices are correct.

Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, being protected by our military and first responders on a daily basis and many many more. 

In financial aspects, a depression is a sustained, long haul downturn in monetary movement in one or more economies. it is a more extreme monetary downturn than a recession, which is a slowdown in financial action through the span of a typical business cycle. a depression is an irregular and extreme type of recession. so depression is always followed by recession but it is not correct to state that a depression always follow a recession.