"The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!" - William "Big Bill" Haywood

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[–]Zombi 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

As far as just how much a CEO should be paid I honestly can't think of a good system as that's too over my head. I like your example of France/Germany, that seems extremely fair. It's insane how much money they can hoard when that could easily go back to the workers or hell, go towards charity or some other good cause. But no, they just hoard money... sooooo much money that if they'd give even a fraction away to their workers it would make their quality of life so much better. Just a 10k bonus could be the difference between someone getting a much needed surgery and someone suffering due to lack of funds.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. The marginal improvement to having a billion dollars vs a billion dollars and one million dollars, is so minuscule. However that million dollars can do so much good help for so many people. And typically these are working people, who have earned their money, it's not some hand out! People deserve a quality life in America.

Being a billionaire should be illegal and globally frowned-upon, just like war criminals. I have hope that someday world culture will make this shift.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Flip it on it's head. Have a workers coop. Everyone has a voice and decides on how it's run. They hire a manager. If the manager screws up he's replaceable.