At 00:27 16/01/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Brad,
There is one thing that above all is important to the worker.
That is how much take-home pay he gets for the work he does. I
don't think he cares how much his boss gets.
Yes, he does. Or, rather, it's a matter of propinquity. If he works fairly closely with his boss then he'll make comparisons. If the boss is far removed in many layers above him then he won't relate his income to his. Relativities of pay (thus status) are only important between close working colleagues -- associates or bosses (or underlings). We're a small-group species and it's only the exceptionally power-mad males who desire large hierarchical organisations. This is why people are increasingly ceasing to vote any longer (and this is why the European Union will inevitably break down) -- the political structures are too far removed from ordinary people. Politicians might as well be in the stratosphere for all ordinary people care.
Keith
Except for ______________. (Insert a name there to prove how
wrong I am.)
But, for everyone other than ________________ work is done to get
a reward and for most workers the reward is his wages.
There are 196,356 Starbuck bosses and 187,677 Ahabs.
Does that make you feel better? Don't forget to archive it.
Oh, and if we became instant socialists or communists tomorrow,
there would then be 196,356 Starbuck bosses and 187,677 Ahabs.
Harry
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:37 PM
To: Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A question for Harry it took me several months to
remember....
Harry, i believe you asked if a worker would
accept a raise of X if his boss got a raise of
n * X (I forget if n was = 2 or 4).
--
OK. Let's ask a similar question and you tell
me the answer:
Will a boss accept a worker doing x work for the
worker's own self-agenda on the job, if the
worker also produces 2x work for the boss, if
the alternaive is that the worker does not
steal any time from the boss, but also only produces
X work for the boss.
What's the answer Harry? How many bosses would
put productivity ahead of ego? (How many captains
of industry are Starbucks and how many are Ahabs? Etc.)
\brad mccormick
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