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Originally Posted by loquitur
Tully, what I got from your posts is that you object to those who don't EARN what they make, and I think most people would agree with you (me included). But if the general run of things is that people do earn what they make, why is it objectionable that some people are better at earning money than others? Based on everything you wrote, why do you care if someone else makes more than you, if your life happiness isn't tied to how much money you make?
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First of all I think all too often it is not the general run of things. Or at least when it isn't the general run of things- the people that end up in the economic crapper are the least responsible. I don't have any problem when people earn more money. When actor gets paid 25 million to make a movie and that movie makes 500 million I'd said that actor earned that money. More power to him. But when a CEO loses other people their jobs and gets paid a huge sum in the process I call bullshit.
And second, What did I say that made you think I care when other's earn more money then I? I think I repeatedly said having more money wouldn't make me more happy. Personally I think you'd have to be pretty damn shallow to base your happiness on what someone else does or does not earn. Or what car or house someone else owns. In fact above basic needs I think basing your happiness on making more money is pretty shallow. Looking for happiness in monetary or material things is a fools game you'll never win.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Well if you aren't interested in legislating this sort of thing, and we both can agree that sometimes it sucks, then really do you have a problem with income disparity?
Thats the question in the thread, and I've yet to see why its BAD someone makes a lot more than someone else as long as basic needs are not infringed on.
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In general I don't have a problem with income disparity unless it's based on paying someone else a salve wage or worse shit canning them and sending US jobs overseas. Warren Buffett makes a shit load of money, Probably makes more an hour then I make in a month, hell maybe a year? But from everything I've read and heard he treats his employees with loyalty and respect. He also, it would seem, pays them decently.
I do see a problematic trend in the US where the top few get paid more and more and the working class get squeezed harder and harder. Most of that squeeze, IMO, comes from the greed of a few and at the expense of many.