Brad,
Anyone can make bad analogies.
It isn't your fault you are good at it.
I agree with you that both being the victim of a theft and being suffoated are bad. I'd rather live in a world that did not lend itself to such analogies -- incluing your notion of giving the worker the choice of doubling his salary if the boss's salary gets quadrupled. I believe CEOs of America's multinationalmegacorporations have done a lot better than that however. I agree: bad analogies. Bad choices.
Cheers!
\brad mccormick
Harry
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Harry Pollard wrote:
Arthur,
In all ways they are better off.
If your boss offered to double your salary even as he increased
the
manager’s salary by four times, would you refuse it?
I doubt it, for you would know you were better off with a
double salary.
Wouldn’t you?
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If somebody ofered to suffocate you in a plastic bag right now or just steal your wallet, whoud you refuse it?
I doubt it, or you would know you were better off breathing than suffocating.
Why don't you address more of the issues, Harry, e.g., that it's not generally fair for the Zeks to get crumbs while the a--holes get fresh baked bread. And, please dont' get me wrong, I'm sure there are a few managers whom I would feel really deserve on the merits to get 4X what I get. I've worked for 2 (well, 1-1/2...) such managers.
But I think you got it right: We have a language problem.
I recently orered a book about Erasmus: _Friends have all things in common_ -- that's not what "free markets" are about, but, yes, given the forced choice, if I cannot live in peer friendship, I'd rather have free markets than be an inmate in Auschwitz or the Gulag.
But, of course, I'd much rather have free markets and be a captain of industry than be an hourly employee. So much depends on what person's belly you (i.e., I...) emerged from, for no person has anything to do with where they start out in this world, i.e., whether they stand on the shoulders of giants or under the boots of flunky functionaries.
\brad mccormick
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