The Druids Grove

The companies are threatening national governments "If you do not give us special priveleges and excemptions we will move our operations to a different country that is more amenable to our demands." This is no different from the situation of a very good worker demanding a raise from his b...

Oooh. Shall it be 'Special Selection', 'Divine Mandate' or 'Genetic Superiority' to justify these millions of income ond bonusses? You didn't answer my question. Why would I? It is not as if your 'question' has much to do with what I wrote. You wrote that CEOs aren't worth their pay. That it takes ...

Palarran wrote:It is possible to support a decrease in income disparity without supporting income equality, you know.

When you start saying that no one should ever be entitled to $10 million (which isn't really that much money), you've crossed the border and descended into Marxism.

Oooh. Shall it be 'Special Selection', 'Divine Mandate' or 'Genetic Superiority' to justify these millions of income ond bonusses? You didn't answer my question. If you come up with a business plan that takes a $2 billion (soon to be dead) company and turns it into a $285 billion company, how much ...

but we are so getting used to the increasingly serious problems caused by our globally living beyond our means, that we kind of gloss over it. Europeans today live well beyond their means, as do Americans. You do, I do. So why don't we live according to our means? Soon you'll realize there are only...

I disagree with the notion that just because somebody is made head honcho of a big company he or she is automatically entitled to tens of millions of income Do you think just anyone can attain such a position? Like applying for a position as a waiter or a check-out clerk at a supermarket? Or that i...

erianaiel wrote:not that anything I wrote in the quoted part has any relation to marxism

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." - Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)

Isn't that what you're trying to say?

This is only a relevant statistic if those people who earn more than 200.000 dollars earn less than half the total taxable income in the country. And even then it is only marginally relevant since somebody who earns 200.000 dollars per year can more easily spare 50.000 in taxes than somebody who ea...

Who paid to build the road that connects the school to your customers? That would be tax payers. The ones who had factory jobs during the 30's and 40's. With the exception of early America and the Rail Roads, Middle and Lower class Americans have always paid for these contructions with Bonds Really...

Way off.