"Want to get paid like a CEO? -Go become a CEO" Except not everyone can be a CEO, even if they were qualified, because the positions are severely limited. That sort of limitation is exactly why this is an issue.
The positions are limited? -What's that supposed to mean? It's not like there's some evil capitalist limiting CEO positions so that you wouldn't get one!
But you know, scarce things are valuable. Very few people can successfully run a big company, and that's exactly why the CEOs are paid so much. In other words, there is no issue, and it's not up to you to decide how much is too much money for a CEO.
Please realize that I'm not saying everything is fine in the corporate world. For example Wall Street is a hive of psychopaths that are happily destroying economies for their own personal gain. Wall Street CEOs are paid shitloads of money, but that's also largely because raping economies is extremely lucrative. So I'm not saying they, in particular, deserve what they're getting.
But take someone like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs and there is no problem with them getting as much money as they can and want to.
Disregarding those that are holding art degrees, you would think that this would raise their value, right? Apparently not.
Yes, apparently not. You only really learn by doing things in the real world. A degree's value has been mostly as a "signal" that someone is a capable person. Now with all these graduates around, the signal value has diminished too. Then there's the economy, which is in shambles (despite what the govt says), and so on..
It's not as simple as "these people should be paid more, just because they need more money!" .. there are a lot of factors that go into the current situation, and ultimately people are paid what they're worth (as EMPLOYEES, dammit).
I'm accusing you of saying that lower-level workers can't be paid more because that money has to come from somewhere, but ignoring when upper-level workers freely give their selves raises. If you want to say money is limited, -or- that top-level management can pay themselves what ever they want, it's fine. When you say both though, like you have, it's flatout disingenuous.
Nope, there is no problem with what I said. That's because the business owners are, again, free to decide how they use the business' money, even if they do pay themselves large salaries. It's up to the business owners to decide on what terms they will want to keep running the business.
Imagine yourself running a McDonald's franchise. How much money per year would you want for yourself, in order to feel like it's a worthwhile endeavor? Whose business would your salary be? Would you accept someone else dictating the terms on which you'll continue running the franchise? Like, someone decides that you're paying yourself too much, so you'll only get half of what you wanted, but you have to keep going anyway? .. Would that be alright?
Of course not. You would not accept that for yourself, so don't suggest that any other business should be "regulated" in the same way. That's just hypocritical.
"Oh you want to stop running your business? -Well that's too bad. We have decided that you will be forced to continue, because your poor little employees need their paychecks!"
The positions are limited? -What's that supposed to mean? It's not like there's some evil capitalist limiting CEO positions so that you wouldn't get one!
But you know, scarce things are valuable. Very few people can successfully run a big company, and that's exactly why the CEOs are paid so much. In other words, there is no issue, and it's not up to you to decide how much is too much money for a CEO.
Please realize that I'm not saying everything is fine in the corporate world. For example Wall Street is a hive of psychopaths that are happily destroying economies for their own personal gain. Wall Street CEOs are paid shitloads of money, but that's also largely because raping economies is extremely lucrative. So I'm not saying they, in particular, deserve what they're getting.
But take someone like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs and there is no problem with them getting as much money as they can and want to.
Yes, apparently not. You only really learn by doing things in the real world. A degree's value has been mostly as a "signal" that someone is a capable person. Now with all these graduates around, the signal value has diminished too. Then there's the economy, which is in shambles (despite what the govt says), and so on..
It's not as simple as "these people should be paid more, just because they need more money!" .. there are a lot of factors that go into the current situation, and ultimately people are paid what they're worth (as EMPLOYEES, dammit).
Nope, there is no problem with what I said. That's because the business owners are, again, free to decide how they use the business' money, even if they do pay themselves large salaries. It's up to the business owners to decide on what terms they will want to keep running the business.
Imagine yourself running a McDonald's franchise. How much money per year would you want for yourself, in order to feel like it's a worthwhile endeavor? Whose business would your salary be? Would you accept someone else dictating the terms on which you'll continue running the franchise? Like, someone decides that you're paying yourself too much, so you'll only get half of what you wanted, but you have to keep going anyway? .. Would that be alright?
Of course not. You would not accept that for yourself, so don't suggest that any other business should be "regulated" in the same way. That's just hypocritical.
"Oh you want to stop running your business? -Well that's too bad. We have decided that you will be forced to continue, because your poor little employees need their paychecks!"