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Originally posted by Dan Alexander
Where CEO's now make astronomical multiples of the daily workers salary, and without whom there wouldn't be a corporation?
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I agree with you on this one. I think one should only become wealthy when you create something new (like building and selling your own business), not as am employee. This is a club that needs an organized shareholder revolt (not the government) to break up. (As to the daily worker making a corporation possible, its true you do need labor, but a laborer does not create value that raises his standard of living beyond what it would have been in the middle ages. This progress is due to the rare innovators that advance knowledge and technology, and in turn, the standard of living for all.)
I also agree that much about the US culture is distasteful (TV has gotten horrible), but this goes back to what I said earlier about we are no longer worthy of our freedoms. However, perhaps a more enlightened view is that this is part of the price of freedom. If I, personally, am still free to do as I like, then the fact that sports players and other "unworthy" types are grossly overpaid, then like the worker in the vinyard, I shouldn't resent it.