Maximum Wage

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    farfromglorified wrote:
    I suppose special exemptions are possible for friends of the state. What line of work are you in? How can I use you?

    law school. i can write great bureacracy for you.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    jeffbr wrote:
    But...but...but...ummm...isn't that different? Don't we need the nanny state to guarantee our right to a fair wage for the working class?

    Of course we do! And we also need the state to guarantee our right to equality. And with that right comes the obligation of everyone who makes more than $50,000 per year to sacrifice for the common good.
    After all, the state is able to more accurately assign value to labor than the market isn't it?

    Certainly!!! We'll have the most respected economists determining exactly what your labor is worth. It will cut out all of the inefficiencies of the market and the inherent prejudices of racial and gender-based power matrices. Everyone will get paid what we tell them they're worth.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    soulsinging wrote:
    law school. i can write great bureacracy for you.

    Unfortunately, we already have that covered. Tell me, do you have any experience with interrogations?
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Unfortunately, we already have that covered. Tell me, do you have any experience with interrogations?
    Ooooohh... I can do that one :)
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    This unfairly punishes single people. There's no way I could keep my house and my current (modest) lifestyle if I was reduced to $50K per year.

    This is discrimination and I'm entitled to make more than that.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Unfortunately, we already have that covered. Tell me, do you have any experience with interrogations?

    im a quick learner. and my parents were already in government. so i get one of the cushy jobs right?
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    know1 wrote:
    This unfairly punishes single people. There's no way I could keep my house and my current (modest) lifestyle if I was reduced to $50K per year.

    This is discrimination and I'm entitled to make more than that.
    :eek: LMAO :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    know1 wrote:
    I think it's apathy, laziness, jealousy and feelings of entitlement that are destroying people. Or in other words, they are destroying themselves.

    But those people are victims of the rich! They're apathetic and lazy because they have no hope, no opportunity. We must force the more fortunate to provide that hope and those opportunities -- the more forutnate need to compromise and to cooperate.

    People are jealous because others have more than they do. That's what we have to change! We have to redistribute the wealth back to the people who created it and are its rightful owners. Jealousy is proof that you are entitled.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :eek: LMAO :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    Hey - it's true. It would be tough to afford a decent house in a decent neighborhood on that salary.

    (especially if I have a car payment, high student loan debt, and still take several vacations each year!)
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    ah yes each person should be equal but somebody with 4 others to support isn't exactly equal to me on my single lonesome now, are they? I'm not usually one to give a crap about people with kids but this may just be a tad unfair.

    It's only unfair because you refuse to cooperate! You should help those people with their children because, as we all know, it take a village to raise a child. They're only struggling because of your failure and their greed.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    know1 wrote:
    This unfairly punishes single people. There's no way I could keep my house and my current (modest) lifestyle if I was reduced to $50K per year.

    "Modest"??? What's "modest" about it. You're alive aren't you?
    This is discrimination and I'm entitled to make more than that.

    You're only entitled to make what the AMERICAN PUBLIC determines you're allowed to make. Your opinion is selfish and naive.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    know1 wrote:
    Hey - it's true. It would be tough to afford a decent house in a decent neighborhood on that salary.

    (especially if I have a car payment, high student loan debt, and still take several vacations each year!)
    But if 50,000 is the cap on what people can earn... house prices will come down, everyone will have an equal chance to keep up payments, afford holidays, etc.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    farfromglorified wrote:
    "Modest"??? What's "modest" about it. You're alive aren't you?



    You're only entitled to make what the AMERICAN PUBLIC determines you're allowed to make. Your opinion is selfish and naive.

    True. True.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    farfromglorified wrote:
    It's only unfair because you refuse to cooperate! You should help those people with their children because, as we all know, it take a village to raise a child. They're only struggling because of your failure and their greed.
    Hey, I never wanted the little pricks in the first place, ok!
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    But if 50,000 is the cap on what people can earn... house prices will come down, everyone will have an equal chance to keep up payments, afford holidays, etc.

    Ahh..but if it's the MAXIMUM (and therefore only a select few should be earning it), then there will be a shift in EVERYONE's wages and in the end it will mean nothing.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    But if 50,000 is the cap on what people can earn... house prices will come down, everyone will have an equal chance to keep up payments, afford holidays, etc.

    Exactly! Finally, someone who's taken an economics class.

    Imagine the holidays you could take!! Since fancy hotels will no longer have the rich to cater to, they'll have to cater to people like us!
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    know1 wrote:
    Ahh..but if it's the MAXIMUM (and therefore only a select few should be earning it), then there will be a shift in EVERYONE's wages and in the end it will mean nothing.
    Lol, so what are ya worrying about then? :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Lol, so what are ya worrying about then? :)

    I'm just trying to help flesh out the finer points of this discussion.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Exactly! Finally, someone who's taken an economics class.

    Imagine the holidays you could take!! Since fancy hotels will no longer have the rich to cater to, they'll have to cater to people like us!
    Actually I DID take economics but I was sitting beside the guy I had a crush on at the time :) ... everything went over my head :o

    This would need to be a worldwide thing though... can we just have a thread that's international for once please? :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    know1 wrote:
    Ahh..but if it's the MAXIMUM (and therefore only a select few should be earning it), then there will be a shift in EVERYONE's wages and in the end it will mean nothing.

    But everyone will be equal! And equality means everyone gets the same thing. So there's no such thing as want because want is only based on what someone else has, right?

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