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No one's holding a gun to my head, yet I still allow my taxes to be spent on crap in TN.


You fail because you think you are special. You're not. You're just a sad little whiny voice.

Your freedom is meaningless when weighed against the well being of the other 314 million people in this country.

Oh like CEOs. Finally we agree on something!

Do you know any CEOs? The majority of the ones I know work more hours each day and more days each week than any of their employees.

$50?

And a ton of people bust their asses all day and all week long all their life and still can barely get by. Waitresses pulling double shifts, working 14+hour days and they're supposed to make a living on pocket change?


Edited, May 2nd 2014 1:30am by Debalic

Let's define work, though. Sitting in an office, talking to other people about how to make cutbacks that cost people jobs isn't really "work". Have you ever seen that show undercover boss? These guys can't do the jobs their employees do, but because they sit in an office for *more* hours a day that somehow makes them worth billions and their employees worth nothing?

Time spent at a place doesn't necessarily equal the overwhelming level of effort you are attributing to CEOS.

And for the record, yea I know a few. They spend a lot of time at the golf course next to my house.

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Only if you lay off half your staff and pay the rest minimum wage to increase profits. Shareholders gotta eat too, y'know.

I know, right? It's like the people who call everyone who don't agree with them liberals are wrong or something.

All that extra padding in their arguments makes it hard to tell the difference.

I don't really disagree with you. I can understand the logic of why the CEO of McDonalds is worth more than a guy who pushes the Big Mac button on the register or throws old lettuce into the dumpster. I can also appreciate that massive wage disparity isn't good for the country and low wages help stratify the economic classes even while some people pretend there's all sorts of class mobility. Unfortunately, it's pretty impossible to have a decent discussion about it because people tend to cling to the fringes and won't admit that there's limits to their stance because now it's not as pure and you need actually start looking at how much is too much. I was just doing my part by giving a bit on the fact that there's justification for a high ranked figure to get paid more than a low ranked worker (if not infinitely more).

Edit: Also my spell check is okay with "dumpster" rather than "Dumpster". In your face, trademark!

Edited, May 2nd 2014 12:09pm by Jophiel

Our CEO brings in millions of dollars a year by suckering getting people to donate money to us; which is more than my contribution via grants and usage fees and such. I'm fine with him making more money than me, provided the donations keep flowing and the money is managed well.