I hate the gap

ali baba · Post by **ali baba** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:51 pm

dagenham wrote:I have always said that there should be a law that no one on the planet can spend 1 million per annum per person for living expenses and...no one can buy a personal car costing more than $100K...who "needs" more than that after all? Greedy evil selfish fucks all...if 'the uber rich" hoard most of the $$, which of course they do, that results in millions of dirt poor poverty-stricken fellow human beings...

Redistribute Resources! Now! I think one of the Marx Brothers said that...

The youth wing of the Swiss social-democrat party proposed capping executive pay at 12x that of the median average employee in that corporation. So if the average worker earns $50,000 the CEO can earn no more than $600,000. It went to a referendum (because Switzerland has a participatory democracy with genuine input) and was voted down.
http://www.thenation.com/article/177424 ... ap-ceo-pay

I hope they have success with this in the future.

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:56 pm

^ but how can the oligarchs rule in a participatory democracy? There's something wrong with that...

ali baba · Post by **ali baba** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 3:14 pm

StroppyChops wrote:^ but how can the oligarchs rule in a participatory democracy? There's something wrong with that...

I don't follow. Oligarchy is the rule of the few, democracy is the rule of all with the entire population having (hypothetically) equal input. Plenty of electoral democracies devolve into oligarchies with dynastic governments, suggesting that they are not genuine democracies. A genuine democracy should be much more inclusive and representative. They're opposites, antonyms.

StroppyChops · Post by **StroppyChops** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 3:49 pm

ali baba wrote:
StroppyChops wrote:^ but how can the oligarchs rule in a participatory democracy? There's something wrong with that...
I don't follow. Oligarchy is the rule of the few, democracy is the rule of all with the entire population having (hypothetically) equal input. Plenty of electoral democracies devolve into oligarchies with dynastic governments, suggesting that they are not genuine democracies. A genuine democracy should be much more inclusive and representative. They're opposites, antonyms.

Sorry, possibly a bit of an "in" reference - see here: https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/viewtop ... =democracy

YouTube · Post by **General Mackevili** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:23 pm

ali baba wrote: CEO can earn no more than $600,000.

I wish we earned that much!

sigmoid · Post by **sigmoid** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:35 am

Well, the "good news" is that the Rich suffer and die like the rest of us. Their wealth cannot really protect them from disease, sickness, old age and death and a host of other misfortunes that generally befall humans.

It's the same with fame and celebrity. No matter how talented and well-known you are, there's no guarantee of happiness.

As the song written by Kerry Livgren goes:

"Now don't hang on. Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
It slips away and all your money won't another minute buy..."

Soi Dog · Post by **Soi Dog** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:06 am

^ that's a nice, hippy-drippy view on things. It's also absolutely wrong. The fact is, the winner in life is the one who, over his lifetime...

a) scored the most and hottest chicks

b) accumulated the most tangible assets and net worth

...and that's not just me saying that. That's science.

I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Re: I hate the gap

Who is online

Register/Login to CEO with your Social Media Account: