Behold!! The cancerous growth of Wal Mart!!!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by tater

I missed you post suggesting forced wage caps at 25X lowest income. What an awful word to live in that would be. No incentive to do more than laze around. That sort of law would be well past my "to arms!" tripwire.

Incentive...? Is a freaking several tens of thousands of dollars not enough for doing an office job? You guys seem to think that if a company makes millions in income due to a director having made a certain decision, that at least parts of that profit his is personal property. It is not! The man makes decisions, that is his job, his damn duty, that'S what he already is being payed for - you can be polite and say "thanks" - but already that thanks is not mandatory, for he just fulfills his damn duty for which he additionally already gets payed...!

One million income per month - no sports, no show act, no movie, no business is worth it as long as you do not save the planet and bring peace to mankind or find a cure for a lethal epidemic.

Incentive is all nice and well - but they can be in relation to what is being done in workload and success - or can be totally disconnected from any such realities. And the latter all too often is the case.

If you think the top manager achieving orders by customers that secure a million-.heavy profit for the company earns that manager one of these isnanely high incomes - then figiure what that decision, that catching of custimer orders would be worth if the worker and staff refuse to process the order. Woithiut the lower ranking workforce, the top staff would acchieve NOTHINg. You do not only need a clever factory manager, you also need the workers running the factory. Both are mutually deopending on each other, and this shoudl be reflected in a fairer, more reasonable relation between his and their income. but if workers get fired and their wages cut and their income even more reduced by ifnlation some bastard bankers have pushed by causing a mess the taxpayers have to fix, while the top class of leading managers quadruple their incomes within five years and sign themselves in for additional bonus payments while they already go home every onths with hudnreds of thosuands and even millions, then this system may be called capitalistic or not, but it remains what it is: sick, unjust, undeserved, and in disregard for a realistic perspecrtive on things.

The strong eats the weak - that is all there is to this model.

You either accept that, or you decide to speak out against that. Both possible actions and replies tell something about your own personal morality.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Incentive...? Is a freaking several tens of thousands of dollars not enough for doing an office job? You guys seem to think that if a company makes millions in income due to a director having made a certain decision, that at least parts of that profit his is personal property. It is not! The man makes decisions, that is his job, his damn duty, that'S what he already is being payed for - you can be polite and say "thanks" - but already that thanks is not mandatory, for he just fulfills his damn duty for which he additionally already gets payed...!

And who makes that decision? You? Me? I think American senators and congressmen (and the president) are vastly overpaid for what is supposed to be a public service. I would have to convince enough congresspeople that it should be changed, since they are the ones with the power to make that change. It is absolutely not going to happen. So how exactly do you propose making top corporate people make what you think they deserve?

One million income per month - no sports, no show act, no movie, no business is worth it as long as you do not save the planet and bring peace to mankind or find a cure for a lethal epidemic.

Again, exactly how do you mean to change that, without removing all freedom from everybody?