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Rekna · 12-02-2005, 07:37 PM

filtherton hit my point exactly, just because people are willing to pay X amount of money for a service does not mean one should charge that much. I know I am different than the majority on this one but I think there is a difference between fair prices and demand driven prices.

I don't think a 3 night stay in the ICU should cost $100,000. I don't think doctors and lawyers deserve to make $300,000 a year. And I know the excuses is well they have spent so much time learning so much more which is BS. If that is the case then we would have phds sitting in the national labs making more than $120,000 a year because they have worked just as hard if not harder than many doctors and lawyers. Doctors (or i should say buisness men in charge of the doctors) know they can charge exorbarent amounts of fees to patients because patients need treetment it is an inelastic demand. The same is true for lawyers and drug companies. Sure say well the cat scan machine costs $$$$$$$ but it does because the people who are selling the machines are raking in a tun of profit. We have CEO's of corperations raking in millions while their hard workers who are responsible for the profit are lucky to make $50,000 a year.

Case in point and back to my personal story. I was working as a technition for a guy for a year. It took a little under a month for me to be the lead technition for this company, i would maintain his servers, fix computers, and make house calls. He charged people $100 an hour for me while only paying me $7.50. To me that seemed like a major exploitation of both the customers and me. So many buisness these days are run by people who rake way more cash then they deserve, honestly I believe buisnesses should be obligated to pass unusally high profits on to either the employees or the customers. Now i'm not saying all profits either because much of it should be used to add to the companies infastructure and even do R&D. But when a CEO goes we had a million dollars in profit this year, it looks like me and a few others are going to get a heafty raise, i get annoyed.

I guess maybe this is my compationate christian side of me coming out.

12-02-2005, 07:37 PM	#41 (permalink)
Rekna Junkie	filtherton hit my point exactly, just because people are willing to pay X amount of money for a service does not mean one should charge that much. I know I am different than the majority on this one but I think there is a difference between fair prices and demand driven prices. I don't think a 3 night stay in the ICU should cost $100,000. I don't think doctors and lawyers deserve to make $300,000 a year. And I know the excuses is well they have spent so much time learning so much more which is BS. If that is the case then we would have phds sitting in the national labs making more than $120,000 a year because they have worked just as hard if not harder than many doctors and lawyers. Doctors (or i should say buisness men in charge of the doctors) know they can charge exorbarent amounts of fees to patients because patients need treetment it is an inelastic demand. The same is true for lawyers and drug companies. Sure say well the cat scan machine costs $$$$$$$ but it does because the people who are selling the machines are raking in a tun of profit. We have CEO's of corperations raking in millions while their hard workers who are responsible for the profit are lucky to make $50,000 a year. Case in point and back to my personal story. I was working as a technition for a guy for a year. It took a little under a month for me to be the lead technition for this company, i would maintain his servers, fix computers, and make house calls. He charged people $100 an hour for me while only paying me $7.50. To me that seemed like a major exploitation of both the customers and me. So many buisness these days are run by people who rake way more cash then they deserve, honestly I believe buisnesses should be obligated to pass unusally high profits on to either the employees or the customers. Now i'm not saying all profits either because much of it should be used to add to the companies infastructure and even do R&D. But when a CEO goes we had a million dollars in profit this year, it looks like me and a few others are going to get a heafty raise, i get annoyed. I guess maybe this is my compationate christian side of me coming out.