Posts by briansmall

"Answer this: If a CEO made the same amount as a bagger at a grocery store, what incentive would there be to take the job as a CEO? If you have 2 equally paying jobs, people will take the job that requires the least amount of work."

Wrong. People will take a job that suits their personalities. They will compete for control.

Higher wages are one thing, (I do not believe in socialism) but someone making 50 to 200 times as much as the person sitting outside their office is simply a vulgar display of corporate greed.

There are many more people who are capable of the job than who are paid for it. That is, if you take certain elements out of the picture, such as extreme self-serving behavior and simple greed.

Running a company is not as hard as you want us all to believe. When a company gets big enough to pay the wages we're talking about an there is, after all, a hierarchy of support, the top dog certainly must know how to wheel and deal, and smooze, and understand the business to a great degree.

That's not the issue here, it's the "type" of person who does this that is at issue. Who in the name of God said that the sort of corporations that pay these sorts of wages can be shown to be a "good" thing for mankind anyway?

The entire notion of corporation is ... dare …

... they run the greater risk (... legal ...) in case things go wrong, and their job is extremely stressful.

Apparently you haven't heard the meaning of the word "corporation". ???

Your justification is weak. How many more hours per week than mine justify a wage 1000 times mine? As for greater risk, well, for some, yes, but anyone making the type of bucks we're talking about probably has the risk covered in a number of ways.

Fair is (just) a human concept that has nothing to do with the natural mechanisms of existence.

My point is that there really is no such thing as "fair", there is only our desire for certain behavior in others.

The question of whether something is fair is not an issue that somehow exists out there, rather, it's a question of whether we wish we had more.

It's got nothing to do with "evil companies" "forcing you", but with your own laziness if you are too stupid to keep up with trends in your chosen field of work.

I've heard every lame excuse for piracy a thousand times, and none of them make any sense except maybe to hardline communists and then only as a means of destroying the "bourgeois capitalist imperial system" as preparation for "the communist world revolution" which will inevitably lead to "the dictatorship of the proletariat" and "the destruction of the bourgeois oppression of the masses".
All ideas that died an untimely (in that they should have died a century before) death with Stalin.

You are entitled to your opinion of course, I think it's as good as most, in fact, you make some great points.

But if you're going to call someone dumb, how 'bout if someone calls you a liar?

I would (almost) bet a years pay you have not "heard every lame excuse for piracy a thousand times".

I'll bet you've heard a few or several, some of them more than once. But I won't call you a liar because I could be wrong.

And even if I'm right, I would rather suggest that you have exaggerated rather than lied.

But think about this: Such exaggerations have the same effect as lies, they "get something for nothing".

Your exaggeration is placed in order to lend weight to your argument, where …