Employees would be too busy hunting down CEOs to import stuff for the company.

Apple was literally buying up entire passenger flights and filing them with iPhones instead of people to skirt in under the deadline. Capitalism is a hell of a drug.

In theory yes, less employees means the value of labor goes up because of demand. This is what happened after the Black Death in Europe.

In the wake of the drastic population decline brought on by the plague, wages shot up, and labourers could move to new localities in response to wage offers. Local and royal authorities in Western Europe instituted wage controls. The government controls sought to freeze wages at the old levels before the Black Death. Within England, for example, the Ordinance of Labourers, enacted in 1349, and the Statute of Labourers, enacted in 1351, restricted both wage increases and the relocation of workers.[30] If workers attempted to leave their current post, employers were given the right to have them imprisoned. The statute was poorly enforced in most areas, and farm wages in England on average doubled between 1350 and 1450,[31] but they were then static until the late 19th century.[32]

Cohn, comparing numerous countries, argues that the laws were not designed primarily to freeze wages. Instead, he says that the energetic local and royal measures to control labour and artisans' prices were responses to elite fears of the greed and the possible new powers of the lesser classes that had gained new freedom. Cohn continues that the laws reflected the anxiety that followed the Black Death's new horrors of mass mortality and destruction and from elite anxiety about manifestations, such as the flagellant movement and the persecution of Jews, Catalans (in Sicily) and beggars.

Of course nothing will stop the ruling class from fuckery.

Um... yes...?

What if you shot someone during the purge, but they did not actually die until the next day.

I'm thinking this whole "no laws" concept would actually need hundreds of thousands of laws. Courts would be tied up for years after each purge just trying to answer the legal questions regarding having no law.

Skyrim would have me believe that possession of a stolen item is also a crime.

It's not "stolen" because stealing is a crime but you took it on free balloon Purge Day. It's just something you have now.

Just like that, you have moved any books written about the Purge from fiction to non-fiction.

Yep, and in the US, if you miss something on your taxes the government/IRS will delay the taxes and actually redo them and send you the new amount.

His name was Robert Paulson!

Most people aren't murders

You can do that without the purge.

Ooh look at mr hundredair over here, thinking he's better than the rest of us. You'll get what's coming to ya, pal.

And don't think for one second that I'll be turning a blind eye to the rest of you positive balance freaks.

I would bet that a great many heads of 'large companies' would be targeted in the first purge. There's no way that there isn't some disgruntled employee or even an ex-employee that wouldn't be willing to take a swing at the big guy before poverty comes in for the kill.

That is a main storyline element in the first movie

No, just distribution.