Why not offer to run a sharing scheme for them? They all give you their weekly paycheques, and you share them out equally to all of them. Make your money on the side by running betting pools on how long it'll be until 10% have dropped out, 20%, 50%, etc. Call them hypocrites if they won't take part in your scheme.
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Robert A. Book wrote: > > Since beautiful women make me stupid, and since I am a > > bit curious, I have become involved in a local > > currency project. > > > > One reoccuring theme is that everybody should be paid > > the same wage for their labor. Doctor or bagboy, > > judge or record store clerk, the only fair way to do > > things is for everybody to get the same pay per hour. > > I fail to see the wisdom in this. > > > > The sentiment seems to revolve around social justice: > > No person is worth any other, etc. > > > > How would you suggest I argue otherwise. > > Ask why anybody would take an unpleasant job like garbage collector if > they didn't get paid more for that than for a pleasant job (record > store clerk? adjust the example to your audience). > > For doctors, you could ask why anybody would spend years going to > school, doing 24-hour calls/rotations, being an intern, etc., if they > didn't get paid more for that than for a job that did not require all > that preparation (you probably should use a word like "preparation" > instead of "investment"). > > (This was the arguement my father used when I was 7 or 8 years old to > convine me to drop my tendencies toward what I now recognize as > communism/socialism. Which says something about the mental age of > leftist -- or my precosity, or both! ;-) > > > --Robert >
