Yes, Bernie Sanders! There is income inequality. So, freaken what?

[JayJay]

@coolidge

I dont know too many CEOs that would keep their job on poor performance. When a business is traded publicly, those investors want results.
Arguing what a ceo should make, that is all in contracts. Contracts matter not peoples feelings.

This is funny.

What do you think happens when CEOs whose companies are performing poorly finally get “sacked” (a process that usually takes a while)?

It’s absolutely not the same thing that would happen if you got sacked for poor performance.

[Smyrna]

@PAmoderate37

How many women who despite this decided to be stay at home mothers anyway, were subsequently left when those children were raised as the father used his wealth accumulation over the years to trade her in for a new model, just like he was buying a new car?

In this world, I don’t have to look far…to see an ass. It’s a target rich environment.

[JayJay]

@Smyrna

Over the decades I observed the “stay at home mother’s role” being discredited by feminists and reevaluated that women had to go find their success in business. I’ve heard about income inequality and other aspects that these same spew. While all of this is going on, I’ve observed the children who matured but without their loving mother at home to provide guidance, to often not be capable of dealing with the responsibilities life demands. This one act by “feminists” has done more damage to the foundational make up of our citizens, than other single factor IMO. Now these same get a vote…and the likes of Bernie’s socialism is their escape.

Women didn’t go to work because of “feminazis”.

[PAmoderate37]

@Smyrna

In this world, I don’t have to look far…to see an ass. It’s a target rich environment.

Exactly, which is why I want my daughter to make something of herself before she decides to get married.

[Smyrna]

@JayJay

Women didn’t go to work because of “feminazis”.

Divorce…when the children are young, has a negative impact on their maturing into adulthood, often lacking the sense of balance they get from the male and female perspective of their parents.

[Smyrna]

@PAmoderate37

Exactly, which is why I want my daughter to make something of herself before she decides to get married.

Agreed my friend. A happy marriage is often a merger of two, that The Lord makes one.

[JayJay]

@Smyrna

@JayJay

Women didn’t go to work because of “feminazis”.

Divorce…when the children are young, has a negative impact on their maturing into adulthood, often lacking the sense of balance they get from the male and female perspective of their parents.

Divorce isn’t the main reason, either.

[Smyrna]

@JayJay

Divorce isn’t the main reason, either.

“negative impact” and…yes it does.

[JayJay]

@Smyrna

@JayJay

Divorce isn’t the main reason, either.

“negative impact” and…yes it does.

I didn’t say it had no impact.

I said it wasn’t the main driver for women in the workforce.

Nor were “feminazis”.

Nor was any other social issue you want to cite next.

The main driver was economic.

Which is by and large the main driver for any large scale change of this nature.

In fact…a large portion of the economic growth this nation has enjoyed over the past 30 years would not have happened without women joining the workforce.

If more people understood the economy is a virtuous cycle they’d understand this.

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

I miss this

“Who cares if CEOs make 300x what their avg employees make”

No, I do not think a CEO is equal to a fry cook and thus should be paid the same. However, I would argue that they may not be worth 300x more. Maybe 30x.

I also believe that anyone who says “I will stop working hard if I don’t have the ability to make 100 million dollars” is full of ■■■■■ This is the whole “of you tax the rich too much they will lose incentive to innovate” BS

Why would a CEO who is already sitting on millions get off the beach and go to work for peanuts? The reason CEO pay is so high is because the people who can do the job well are generally very connected and wealthy people to begin with. I know a CEO who has been trying to retire and enjoy his wealth for decades, the problem is, every time he finishes a job and tries to go back to his ranch, someone knocks on his door and offers him boat loads of cash to come out of retirement, just one more time.

[JayJay]

@zantax

@PurpnGold

I miss this

“Who cares if CEOs make 300x what their avg employees make”

No, I do not think a CEO is equal to a fry cook and thus should be paid the same. However, I would argue that they may not be worth 300x more. Maybe 30x.

I also believe that anyone who says “I will stop working hard if I don’t have the ability to make 100 million dollars” is full of ■■■■■ This is the whole “of you tax the rich too much they will lose incentive to innovate” BS

Why would a CEO who is already sitting on millions get off the beach and go to work for peanuts? The reason CEO pay is so high is because the people who can do the job well are generally very connected and wealthy people to begin with. I know a CEO who has been trying to retire and enjoy his wealth for decades, the problem is, every time he finishes a job and tries to go back to his ranch, someone knocks on his door and offers him boat loads of cash to come out of retirement, just one more time.

You think it’s because people who could be CEOs are in short supply?

Sigh…this phenomenon happens for the same reason coaches get recycled in the NFL.

[zantax]

@JayJay

@zantax

@PurpnGold

I miss this

“Who cares if CEOs make 300x what their avg employees make”

No, I do not think a CEO is equal to a fry cook and thus should be paid the same. However, I would argue that they may not be worth 300x more. Maybe 30x.

I also believe that anyone who says “I will stop working hard if I don’t have the ability to make 100 million dollars” is full of ■■■■■ This is the whole “of you tax the rich too much they will lose incentive to innovate” BS

Why would a CEO who is already sitting on millions get off the beach and go to work for peanuts? The reason CEO pay is so high is because the people who can do the job well are generally very connected and wealthy people to begin with. I know a CEO who has been trying to retire and enjoy his wealth for decades, the problem is, every time he finishes a job and tries to go back to his ranch, someone knocks on his door and offers him boat loads of cash to come out of retirement, just one more time.

You think it’s because people who could be CEOs are in short supply?

Sigh…this phenomenon happens for the same reason coaches get recycled in the NFL.

Yes, I know people who can be good CEO’s are in short supply. Why, do you think businesses just generally like giving money away for no reason?

[Smyrna]

@JayJay

The main driver was economic.

wants vs needs

So many have a hard time denying their wants, in satisfying their needs. It’s all about choices my friend.

[zantax]

@Smyrna

@JayJay

The main driver was economic.

wants vs needs

So many have a hard time denying their wants, in satisfying their needs. It’s all about choices my friend.

Yep, reminds me of the posters who moan about how workers in the sixties and seventies could survive on one income. Sure they could, but it was in tiny houses with one car. I have a garage out back bigger than the house my father owned on his sixties era auto factory job.

[JayJay]

@Smyrna

@JayJay

The main driver was economic.

wants vs needs

So many have a hard time denying their wants, in satisfying their needs. It’s all about choices my friend.

No- the main driver was economic.

Your wants v needs is an irrelevant addition of your own personal value judgement.

People act the way people act.

I always found this curious tension of value judgements that “people should be concerned only for their needs” v “you can’t tax the wealthy. It will make them stop trying to get ahead” that exists within many conservatives to be fascinating.

Especially, of course, as to how the tension is resolved compartmentalization and applying these competing notions to different groups.

[WuWei]

@JayJay

@WuWei

@JayJay

So many “independent thinkers” saying the same things in perfect lockstep…

Truth is universal.

Lol.

That’s funny.

Like I said…human beings need to learn their lessons the hard way.

Same things happen over and over and over…major increase in income inequality because productivity becomes decoupled from wages…mountains of debt to try and paper over the problem…asset bubbles…economic fragility…economy goes splat.

Rinse and repeat.

I thought you’d like it.

It’s not the same humans.

[WuWei]

@JayJay

You have rising income inequality…the economic system goes splat…sooner or later.

You are mis-identifying the problem.

[WuWei]

@thinkingman

heres another lefty head exploding nugget of wisdom.

if it werent for a federally mandated “minimum wage” businesses would probably pay more for min wage jobs.

min wage is a horrible idea

I agree with that.

[WuWei]

@mobulis

@thinkingman

@mobulis

@thinkingman

@Dale_Klan

They’re not. CEOs are grossly overpaid.

by what standards?

are rock stars overpaid too? how about arianna grande?

pro baseball player?

paid just right? too little?

Yep their ALL overpaid.

by what standards?

apart from your sense of what’s “fair” which is meaningless

how much should arianna grande get paid?

Salary cap of one million a year after taxes, across the board.

Will you ever make one million dollars a year?

[JayJay]

@WuWei

@JayJay

@WuWei

@JayJay

So many “independent thinkers” saying the same things in perfect lockstep…

Truth is universal.

Lol.

That’s funny.

Like I said…human beings need to learn their lessons the hard way.

Same things happen over and over and over…major increase in income inequality because productivity becomes decoupled from wages…mountains of debt to try and paper over the problem…asset bubbles…economic fragility…economy goes splat.

Rinse and repeat.

I thought you’d like it.

It’s not the same humans.

I know.

That’s the problem.

As soon as enough time has passed, the lessons learned in the past aren’t maintained.

Way our species has evolved.

Immediate environment and time is the end all be all. For all intents and purposes, the past and future don’t exist and are irrelevant.