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Right. Take a look at the actual link. Ah, don't bother. Just continue believing what you want. You are a con. that is what you do.
Blow it out your ass bigot.
And, no, you didn't distract from the fact that commie bastards like yourself don't give a flying fuck about the income disparity that exists between the bureaucratic parasite class and the hard working people out in The World, people who have their life's blood sucked form them in order to fund their rather lavish upper middle class lifestyles.
Sorry; apparently I hit a bit too close to home for you, Oddie, mobile as it might have been 30 or so years ago before pulling the wheels off it.
Sorry; apparently I hit a bit too close to home for you, Oddie, mobile as it might have been 30 or so years ago before pulling the wheels off it.
Honest question, Koios: why would you expect anyone to give you a civil answer?
You are intellectually dishonest, you ignore and dismiss most evidence that reveals the idiocy of what you post. You are often stumbling drunk when you post, creating slop with your logic and your typing. So why would anyone respect you or treat you seriously?
No. Did I give you a sense I was here for the civility? Hahahahahahahaha.
No. Did I give you a sense I was here for the civility? Hahahahahahahaha.
You're sure not here for the sobriety.....
So they're not serving alcohol here on USMB, you figured out. Wow; I'm impressed, U'08. In truth, I never pegged you for that level of insight.
Life is full of surprises.
So they're not serving alcohol here on USMB, you figured out. Wow; I'm impressed, U'08. In truth, I never pegged you for that level of insight.
Life is full of surprises.
No one can do anything about the vodka and nice bowl of paint chips you so enjoy....
Income inequality doesn't fly real well in these boards. I find it troubling that people don't care that they are making less than they did 40 years ago and are going no-where income wise. Some don't care, some don't realize it and others have accepted it and gave up.
You fell back to paint chips??? Shit, U'08, I was so proud of you when you evolved to huffing oven cleaner. You're digressing.
How very disappointing.
You fell back to paint chips??? Shit, U'08, I was so proud of you when you evolved to huffing oven cleaner. You're digressing.
How very disappointing.
I'm just the commentator - the consumption is on you, sparky.
Right. Of course the numbers for the top 50 are higher than overall. But trying a 500K number just does not cut it. But believe what you willRight. Take a look at the actual link. Ah, don't bother. Just continue believing what you want. You are a con. that is what you do.
Seriously child, even your CNN link states that it is using "the Fortune top 50 companies."
The Salaries.Com link I provided gives a true average.
Oh, and even that half million total compensation average is skewed by the Skilling, Cook, Balmer, Grove types who pull in obscene amounts.
Most CEO's run companies of about 100 employees: they don't pull down a billion a year for that.
You're trying to sell a fantasy to justify your hatred and jealousy.
But trying a 500K number just does not cut it.
So, I have been a bit busy, so did not go out to find actual numbers for ceo pay. Here is a piece that covers it well:You fell back to paint chips??? Shit, U'08, I was so proud of you when you evolved to huffing oven cleaner. You're digressing.
How very disappointing.
I'm just the commentator - the consumption is on you, sparky.
Meathead -
I'm a capitalist, and capitalism means that there SHOULD be disparity of income. Rewards should be based on the work involved put into the task.
However, we have gone from a situation around the world where the difference between a CEO's income and the average income in that firm has risen from something like 40:1 to 450:1.
I consider that exploitative and unfair to the point of being a bastard interpretation of what capitalism is all about.
I work with firms where salaries have remained stagnant for 5 years - during which time the CEO's income has risen 20%. That is simply not right.
So, while conservatives continue to say that income disparity is no problem, you will be hard pressed to find a non-partisan economist that agrees with that. Most economists, and most governments of countries worldwide, see income distribution as a huge problem. China, today, sees income inequality as their number one problem.
"Not surprisingly, the gap between the top and bottom on pay is biggest in the United States, where average CEO remuneration is 142 times that of employees, according to Thomson Reuters ASSET4 data. British CEOs pull in 69 times more than their workforces while egalitarian Sweden has an average differential of only 34 times."
INSIGHT-CEOs warned: mind the pay gap | Reuters
EOs got a whopping 24% pay hike last year as corporate profits soared with the recession's end, more than making up for two years of declining pay.
The average worker? Not so much. Those lucky enough to still have jobs saw their pay inch up a meager 3.3%, which might have been enough to cover the rising prices of gas and food.
CEOs got a big raise; how about you? - 1 - executive pay - MSN Money
research, moreover, indicates executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled.
Nation & World | Executive pay drives increasing wage gap | Seattle Times Newspaper
The income disparity between ceo and average worker is more than twice that of any other country. And many times that of the average industrialized nation.
Seems to me this is a because of some very progressive "reforms" in Latin America. So are the poor in Latin America any less poor as a result?
No. They are still quite poor.
Hardly. Lula's first act as Brasil's president was to raise the minimum wage. And it lifted Brasil out of the global recession sooner and faster than any other country in the Americas.
No, I do not. Wealth is finite at any point in time. But at any time, there is just so much INCOME to draw from. That is, a company has profits, at the end of an accounting period. So, that is not wealth. Wealth, however, derives from income, among other sources. And I do not believe that anyone is suggesting that you re-divide wealth. But that you look at taxing income as a way of affecting wealth over time.A simple description is not a possibility. Go read. See why a bad income distribution is considered a concern for China today, why the advanced countries of the world worry that such distribution leads to problems with education, and with social programs, and with the economic well being of the countries involved.
It is simple enough, and that you ignore it is telling, that income inequality concentrates wealth (by definition) among a few who then are able to use that wealth to control our government.
But you believe it is jealousy based, so I suspect that you will not read anything. Because that reasoning is about the stupidest idea I have yet seen from you. And that is an accomplishment.
You speak of wealth as though it is a finite pile of cash from which we all must draw. That is patently ridiculous.
Yet you have the gall to bust on me for lack of civility.Sorry; apparently I hit a bit too close to home for you, Oddie, mobile as it might have been 30 or so years ago before pulling the wheels off it.
Honest question, Koios: why would you expect anyone to give you a civil answer?
You are intellectually dishonest, you ignore and dismiss most evidence that reveals the idiocy of what you post. You are often stumbling drunk when you post, creating slop with your logic and your typing. So why would anyone respect you or treat you seriously?
No. Did I give you a sense I was here for the civility? Hahahahahahahaha.
You're the one who busted out the trailer trash attack on me, you bigoted asshole.Blow it out your ass bigot.
And, no, you didn't distract from the fact that commie bastards like yourself don't give a flying fuck about the income disparity that exists between the bureaucratic parasite class and the hard working people out in The World, people who have their life's blood sucked form them in order to fund their rather lavish upper middle class lifestyles.
Sure we do (I'm speaking for all Liberal Commies now) care about others, namely you trailer trash righties who are too fucking stupid and lazy to act on your own behalfs, so we Pinkos have to urge the minimum wage be increased so maybe, godwilling, you can go back to drinking beer from 12 ounce cans. Or at least we can hope. Call it my "I had a dream" speech: I dreamt of a land where right wing morons can not only drink beer that isn't the cheapest 24 in the cooler, but where they can breath free, in a clean T shirt, and maybe even put wheels back on their homes! Yes, brothers, I HAVE A DREAM!!!!
