(July 25, 2015 at 9:26 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(July 25, 2015 at 9:01 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Wouldn't paying everyone too much be a problem too? You can't just start paying everyone what CEOs make, right? Money would lose it's value and we'd be back where we started.
How much people get payed is not really the problem, I think - it's the means to live that need get more uniformly distributed and made available.
What I'm basically saying is how current societies and economies work is the problem, really. We should work for other reasons than making a living. It's only when this initial problem goes away that we are able to truly work, efficiently, creatively and so on.
The state should provide us with sufficient resources to lead a normal life and we should strive to make it even better or work for the community at large on our own, unincentivized by a need to feed our own families and provide them with comfort and shelter.
It's not about paying everyone 10 million dollars a year, it's about people working for the same company being paid proportionately. Its ridiculous for an executive to make 10 million a year and then call $15 "outrageous" for employees working at the same company. I mean what would be so wrong with employees making $25 dollars an hour and the CEO making 5 million a year?
Whenever I hear a Rethuglitard or Libertarian claim " You don't understand how business or healthy economies work" I want to punch them in the throat, because it is really nothing more than justifying personal greed.
They bemoan independence while justifying slave wages that creates more dependency
