RE: Bernie Sanders Rocks My World!
December 1, 2010 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2010 at 2:11 pm by orogenicman.)
Tiberius Wrote:(December 1, 2010 at 1:55 pm)orogenicman Wrote:It would only be equal if everyone took an across the board 80% pay cut. When will people get it into their heads that everyone earning the same amount of money (or limiting the amount you can earn) doesn't work? Economies fluctuate; people come up with services and use them to make profit. If you limit that, you take away any incentive people have for expanding on their ideas in the first place.(December 1, 2010 at 1:34 pm)Tiberius Wrote: No, I just believe in equality. It's a shame not many other people do.
Then you wouldn't mind if the top 1% of income earners took an across the board 80% pay cut. Right? Can't get any more equal than that!
I disagree. And for the record, I am a strong believer in capitalism, but not at the expense of the poor and the middle class. When a CEO, ANY CEO makes more than the GDP of our poorest state, I see a problem with that. When CEO's run businesses to the ground and then get golden parachutes as they are shown the door, I have a huge problem with that. I believe in a fair wage for a fair day's work. I know of very few upper management people for whom this axiom is applied. I know of tons of middle class and working poor for whom this axiom is NEVER applied.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
