Gnads wrote on Jan 6
th, 2020 at 8:06am:
aquascoot wrote on Jan 6
th, 2020 at 7:30am:
Captain Caveman wrote on Jan 6
th, 2020 at 6:56am:
That's why he's the highest paid CEO......been ripping off his workers for years.
I don't contribute to his wage. They are not pizzas he sells. Wouldn't eat that crap even if he paid me to eat it.
How much TAX did he pay on his personal income?
We just have to accept the inequality as the price we pay for the prosperity
We are an incredibly prosperous society
Every society that ever existed has had massive inequality
But the capitalist market driven system also has massive prosperity
You're simply not understanding this white night
Capitalism and markets and allowing this sort of inequality to develop
Is crucial to all the advance that is made
Which makes your life so much more prosperous
You have a car with air conditioning and satellite navigation
Even people on the dole who have contributed virtually nothing
May have such a vehicle
That's a goddamn miracle
If we didn't allow the market to sort out who are the competent car manufacturers
And then reward the ceo's of the competent car manufacturers with high salaries
This miracle could never occur
They tried this in Soviet Russia in China
East Germany
In East Germany you had a choice of one car
That blue smoke and broke down
In East Berlin you had a choice of one type of coffee
And the central authority eventually bought coffee that was so cheap
That the people revolted
They tore down the Berlin wall just to get a good cappuccino
Here in the West we probably reward
the owners of moccona
Starbucks and Gloria Jean's with multi-million dollar bonuses
But at least no one is tearing down walls in frustration at the
Scarcity of
a good barista Yeah well Starbucks & good coffee have nothing in common ....
so the barristas there would have to be good at making the shyte look good ... until you taste it.
Same goes for dominos
We don't have a better method for creating prosperity
Then to let the general public vote with their cash
On who is the most competent provider of a service
At the height of the Communist system in Russia
Massive numbers of bureaucrats had to sit around and decide on the price of up to 10000 individual items each day
What is a nail worth
Serious question
It's worth a lot if your roof is about to blow off
How could the central Soviet decide on such pricing mechanisms
They couldn't it's impossible
So we throw it open to the free market
And the market decides
How very democratic of us
And if you are very competent
At providing what the market wants
Then you get rewarded
In proportion to your competence
And so more and more competent people
Become richer and richer
How could you possibly structure a better system
It's impossible
If you are a plumber and word gets around that you are a good plumber than you get to do more plumbing
And you get to expand your business and teach apprentice plumbers
and so the standard of plumbing in the society gets better and better and better
And if you are a bad plumber
No one parts with their cash to pay you
And you don't get to construct pipes that leak
The payoff for the best functioning society
Is that some people are going to accumulate a lot more cash
But isn't it better
That these are the competent people
That's why the whole system works
In an altruistic way of contributing first
You contribute to your fellow man
You put his needs first
He judge's your competence
And then the whole thing spirals upwards
It's a bloody miracle
Interfere with it at your peril
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