Forum Post: ThereAreReasonsForInequality
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 8:06 p.m. EST by deoccupywallstreet
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The cold hard truth is that not everyone deserves to be paid the same salary. We live in a society where the free market dictates the salary that we pay to these top executives/ceo's etc. These people work damn hard to obtain their positions, and many are born with natural abilities to lead some of the worlds biggest companies. These top 1% are people with the exceptional skills that are required to lead these organisations and the simple fact is that the vast majority of the population do not possess these skills nor would they make the appropriate sacrfices required to obtain the positions that these 1% possess. If you take away their salaries you take away their incentive to aspire to these positions. And if you take away these leaders of these companies - then you watch these companies collapse and the economy really fall apart. Just like the star players of football teams or basketball teams, these players are indispensable and posses an irreplacable role in the operation and success of there team (and just look at how much we pay sports people - what's next? Protesting against sporting salaries?)
I invite you "occupy XXXXXX" protestors to go and submit your resumes for these top jobs. If you have these skills and experience that these postions require and are willing to do it for a fraction of the salary then no doubt you'll be hired in an instant. If you don't have a job then maybe you are just not competitive enough and don't have anything to offer to workforce. Get your ass off the streets and quit wasting time complaining about the problem and go and acquire some skills that will allow you to gain employment.
thank you
"Evey man's death diminishes me because I am involved with mankind." - John Donne
Maybe we don't all deserve to be CEOs and millionaires. But we are human beings, and therefore have the right to earn a living wage. That means that each employed person should be able to pay their rent, afford transportation and have enough to eat. Speaking personally, I am in education. I hold a Masters Degree and TWO certifications. I was laid off nearly three years ago and have been seeking another teaching position ever since. In the meantime, I am working as a Teaching Assistant in a Special Education classroom working as a 1-to-1 with a very troubled autisitc child. As a TA, I barely make enough to pay my rent, put gas in my car, and eat. I live in a very modest two-bedroom apartment with my daughter in a fairly economically depressed urban area (because the rent is pretty cheap for what I get). Does this really seem fair to you? That a person who spends his day helping to educate and manage the behavior of a disabled child should get paid barely more than a waiter? Or that someone with my level of education, training, and experience should have to take such a job in order to stay in the field I love? What part pf this seems fair to you?
It is good that there are people born with exceptional skills. I wish those skills worked to help people rather than cause them anxiety and frustration. I wish that those skills were used to educate rather than suppress. I wish those skills were used to create prosperity for the world instead of suck it dry. You are correct that these people are exceptional and their skills admirable. Unfortunately the problem comes when their sense of morality is not exceptional. I dont want to take anything from anyone, I just want what I have worked hard for, and I dont want anyone to take that from me. Those people would not have money if there were not people under them that knew how to create the products. The idea is not that everyone is the same, but that each contribution matters.
I think you are hung in a loop of ocnventional thinking which goes like this> the reason the 1% have accumulated all of the wealth is that they are better than the 99%. They are smarter and they work harder than the 99%.
That is your reasoning isn't it?
Quite true, there are very valid reasons for inequality. However, many more people will come to your side when you are proactive (for “new” Business & Government solutions), instead of reactive (against “old” Business & Government solutions), which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive “new” strategy that implements all our various socioeconomic demands at the same time, regardless of party, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves; that is, using a Focused Direct Democracy organized according to our current Occupations & Generations. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategically Weighted Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
because we need 100,000 “support clicks” at AmericansElect.org to support a Presidential Candidate -- such as any given political opportunist you'd like to draft -- in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Most importantly, remember, as cited in the first link, that as Bank Owner-Voters in your 1 of 48 "new" Business Investment Groups (or "new" Congressional Committees) you become the "new" Congress replacing the "old" Congress according to your current Occupation & Generation, called a Focused Direct Democracy.
Therefore, any Candidate (or Leader) therein, regardless of party, is a straw man, a puppet; it's the STRATEGY – the sequence of steps – that the people organize themselves under, in Military Internet Formation of their Individual Purchasing & Group Investment Power, that's important. In this, sequence is key.
Why? Because there are Natural Social Laws – in mathematical sequence – that are just like Natural Physical Laws, such as the Law of Gravity. You must follow those Natural Social Laws or the result will be Injustice, War, etc.
The FIRST step in Natural Social Law is to CONTROL the Banks as Bank Owner-Voters. If you do not, you will inevitably be UNJUSTLY EXPLOITED by the Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government who have a Legitimate Profit Motive, just like you, to do so.
Consequently, you have no choice but to become Candidates (or Leaders) yourselves as Bank Owner-Voters according to your current Occupation & Generation.
So please JOIN the 2nd link so we can make our support clicks at AmericansElect.org when called for, at exactly the right time, by an e-mail from that group, in support of the above the bank-focused platform. If so, then you will see and feel how your goals can be accomplished within the above strategy as a “new” Candidate (or Leader) of your current Occupation & Generation.
You sound like a proponent of Social Darwinism to me. Welcome to the 21st century, bub.
The reason for inequality is violent domination. Everyone deserves freedom from violent domination.