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I agree with this title. The gap of salaries from executives to rank and file is so large today.
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Yeah, it wasn't intended to be a totally serious comment. But let's face it, America was a country who's riches were gained from greed, and even though greed exists in every country's government, the US (from past to present) is f@#%ing ridiculous. Quote:
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What are your ideas on "fixing" this problem. I agree with you on the problem itself. However, I'm not sure on a solution that works for everyone. What would yours be? Do we "set the system up" to balance the money out more? Do we just let it play out (and let greed run our country into the ground)? Do you think civil wars and unrest could result? Is it something we have to deal with as punishment for our Greed? This is why I linked to the other thread earlier, but the way. I wasn't trying to be rude. There was simply a similar discussion going on in that thread, and I wanted to link you to it for your own potential further reading. Quote:
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Capitalism + Globalization = Economic oligarchy and also (indirectly) political oligarchy. If Americans don't like it they should be more open to other ideas too. No financial system is perfect for every situation and every one holds part of a truth imo. Capitalism takes into consideration that people are greedy (people are not always and only greedy though, and greed leeds to problems too).
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[Gene Wilder] Looks like his nightmare has turned into reality.
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That what has happened before?
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Just a short video clip: Wealthiest 400 Now Own More Than The Bottom 150 Million Americans EDIT And another (really worth to watch) WikiLeaks
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Quit complaining about s**t. At least you guys can take a stroll on your city streets without the fear of getting a bullet to your head -_-
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And for what? A salary where you have to decide to pay for either rent or food. And don't get sick, 'cause these will be probably the only legal jobs not providing for public healthcare. The problem is that governments will not produce profitable products and services with public workers. They won't open a Goverment Brand clothing factory (though some prisons do. Hmmm...). That means the salary, work expenses et al have to be payed from the state's budget; by extent from the taxes. That means to directly provide jobs, the govt has to either increase taxes (and even if those are corporate taxes, they fall back to the private households in form of increased prices) or by reducing payments; for healthcare, public transport, road construction and similar things. The best way to provide jobs would be to generate progressive benefits for companies for having more employees. The more employees you have, the less taxes you pay for each individual one. The government would still take in a similar amount of cash in form of revenue taxes: people can't spend money they don't have.
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We once had all this, but more and more was given away into the greedy hands of "businessmen" for just a few bucks in the hope "the market" could deal better with it and would make things cheaper. The undeniable truth is: EVERYTHING now in the hands of "the market" has become a lot more expensive to everyone and every employee earns way less than before. But yeah, now there is a lot of profit made.
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That's what the current government built its whole campaign around and that's how they scored a 2/3 majority in Parliament. That way, they can now pass every law they please without as much as talking with either oppositional parties or workers' unions. This resulted in things like the Media Council, a censorship bureau officially instated to reduce the amount of "child-unfriendly" content, but whose first action went against an oppositional web-newspaper. Nationalism has been budding in the collective Hungarian mindset since the peace treaty of World War I, which cut away former Hungarian territories at each side of the country, reducing it's size by half. This "injustice" has fueled rightwing politics ever since, some even going so far that those territories should be given (or taken) back, effectively annexing almost the whole of Slovakia, for example. Racism, especially against roma and jews, has been around since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Jews are blamed for all the (percieved or true) evils of capitalism, while roma are seen as uncivilized, uneducated louts who leech on the state's wellfare system as kinda "breeding machines", or descend into petty crime. To be truthful, though, there have been governmental projects to grant the many roma families living in shanty towns normal housing, formal education and jobs, but they have always failed at the roma's general resistence. Quote:
Problem is, every government since the fall of the Iron Curtain has cut back expenses on them, reducing the number of employees. They do not, and should not, work up profit/revenue, so they are seen as a "black hole" for taxmoney by politicians and the short-sighted masses they manipulate with their slogans. Quote:
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Looking at energy companies I cannot imagine they can do things more cost effectively, when next to having to pay their employees, they now have to pay shareholders and marketing campaigns as well. Smilley, thanks for the insight. Most of it doesn't sound new but it nevertheless freshes up my memory.
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Most of it isn't, really. I could post some up-to-date things, but it's just depressing. On the bright side, it seems to rile up the workers' unions. Again, they have found an enemy in the reigning party, so it's kind of same-old-same-old.
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In germany we have 4 big energy providers (yes, they are buying energy from external producers, too), who have split the whole country into 4 regions for everyone of them to dominate 1 region. Yes, THIS they call "free market"! But, that's still not enough. They receive subsidies in the millions EVERY year to keep the transport ways intact, but just give a damn about and let them rot since 4 decades, which is no secret to anyone. On the other side do they claim that just to keep the transport ways intact, raising energy prices every year is unavoidable. Simply unbelievable! Quote:
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They, NS, spend big money on TV for promoting traveling by train and the top makes a lot of money cause they hit their targets of train delays being minimal. Behind the scenes they simply slap a sign on the train stating it's out for maintenance when it's a few minutes late, because it doesn't count in statistics. They'd rather let people wait 30 minutes for the next train than accepting a 2 minute delay, as that would get in the way of the public image, and their related bonus. As you can see, free market at its finest. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, I'm not even touching the political stuff here. That's an entirely different can of worms, which is even worse. Right now there's an investigation going on about all the spendings they did and all other sort of stuff in which they have failed over the last years. The rails used to be much better off when they were ran by railroad enthusiasts, you know, these geeks with a passion for trains who knew little about financials and marketing, but everything about railroad technology, safety logic and how to get the most people from A to B, and actually cared about their work, rather than the statistics that are related to their bonus.
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