My view is that we'd have the same disparity in a republic. How do US earnings compare? Or French? Or Cuban (government official vs prole)?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Sent: 04 May 2011 16:07 To: [email protected] Subject: [LU] Non-LU: More farce than arse, really And for heaven's sake, PLEASE don't come out with the line that this is about envy. It's about wanting a little more *fairness*. Take a look at the diagram at the end of this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11942117 Ignore Frank Lampard and Tiger Woods, just gawp in awe at the contrast between the little black dot and the giant circle too big to even fit in. Then tell me - with a straight face, mind - that you can't see something badly out of kilter in a system where someone who shuffles money around on stock markets is paid almost as much as 100,000 nurses. Expressing a preference for a society in which rewards are at least VAGUELY in some sort of sensible proportion to the effort one puts in, and privilege isn't inherited, needn't exactly make one a communist. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
