Maximum Wage

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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    wow, well I'm with you :) maybe a little more than 50,000 though... cos when that translates into euro, it's actually not excessive if you have a family to support and a mortgage to pay so maybe 75000 - nobody needs more than that.

    Fish on! Sink that hook and start reeling it in!
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    so I have to go to 18 different stores to buy groceries and everything is the same.

    No thanks man, I like choices.

    Where is the incentive to create? Sounds like a pretty boring, dull, and lifeless society.

    Perhaps everyone could wear grey too.

    All it really does in practice is make a smaller group of people richer and expand the number of people at the bottom. If you're born into politics you're set for life, everyone else pretty much lives in the shit.

    Life is competition and struggle, the sooner everyone realizes that and gets busy, the sooner they become successful. Success is relative, you don't have to be suprisingly rich to be successful, and it's not hard at all to make a great living in this country, hell people with no documentation at all have done it for years and years.

    Sure everyone has exactly the same everything and they survive and live, but really, it's a pretty dull and boring way to live.
    My Girlfriend said to me..."How many guitars do you need?" and I replied...."How many pairs of shoes do you need?" She got really quiet.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    wow, well I'm with you :) maybe a little more than 50,000 though... cos when that translates into euro, it's actually not excessive if you have a family to support and a mortgage to pay so maybe 75000 - nobody needs more than that.
    Ha!.. money is different to everyone, depending on where you live and your lifestyle. Right now I make only 30k, but I get buy. If I was making 40k, I wouldn't know what to do with all that extra dough. :)
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    wow, well I'm with you :) maybe a little more than 50,000 though... cos when that translates into euro, it's actually not excessive if you have a family to support and a mortgage to pay so maybe 75000 - nobody needs more than that.

    YOUR mortgage??? YOUR family???? Is that all you think about -- you????

    This is not the time for selfishness. Sacrifice to the greater good. Can't you cooperate? Can't you compromise?
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    jeffbr wrote:
    Fish on! Sink that hook and start reeling it in!
    :confused: Huh???
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  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Of course! Everyone is equal, therefore no one should be allowed to make over $50,000 per year, including Native Americans.

    I think we would say keep the $50 000 grand just give us back 1/8th of the land that was stolen and admit the genocide that was done by the US govt...including their excuse of manifest destiny and how it was used to justify the opening up of the West.
    ....ok thats a different thread. Lo Siento.
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  • chikevin
    chikevin Posts: 421
    soulsinging wrote:
    ffg get his jollies playing devil's advocate. play along.

    thanks for letting us know that. now i'm not nearly as annoyed and don't feel the need to pay attention.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    farfromglorified wrote:
    YOUR mortgage??? YOUR family???? Is that all you think about -- you????

    This is not the time for selfishness. Sacrifice to the greater good. Can't you cooperate? Can't you compromise?
    I don't have a mortgage OR a family :p

    Lol.

    I'm thinking about others here... I know if there is a family of say 3 kids where the mom stays at home and dad brings home the bacon, 50,000 (being say 35,000 euro) is absolutely NOTHING.
    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
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Ha!.. money is different to everyone, depending on where you live and your lifestyle. Right now I make only 30k, but I get buy. If I was making 40k, I wouldn't know what to do with all that extra dough. :)
    well this is true.. we all live to our means. You'd soon figure out what to do with the extra 10k and start wondering what you ever did without it :o
    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
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    so I have to go to 18 different stores to buy groceries and everything is the same.

    Of course not! You may still go to any store you'd like. And since grocers will no longer be able to selfishly squander the profits of their stores on their own personal interests, there will be more stores than ever!!
    Where is the incentive to create?

    People will create because they have to.
    Sounds like a pretty boring, dull, and lifeless society.

    It will be just the opposite. No more poverty to bring us down! No more oppression by rich fat cats! Everyone will be the same!
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Let's cap all wages at a maximum of $50,000 per year. No person, regardless of ability or value, should be permitted to make over $50,000 in one year because, obviously, no one needs more than $50,000 in one year. All income exceeding $50,000 should be taxed at a 100% rate.
    Who's with me?

    It's interesting, I love the idea since it would get rid of greed and that's what's destroying people, frankly.
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :confused: Huh???

    The thread made you express your true beliefs, which is really difficult these days, getting people on the left to directly tell you what they believe in.

    FFG, congrats on an excellent thread!
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    And I try to make this kind and clear
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    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I'm thinking about others here...

    Oh, phew. Otherwise this would never work for me.
    I know if there is a family of say 3 kids where the mom stays at home and dad brings home the bacon, 50,000 (being say 35,000 euro) is absolutely NOTHING.

    But everyone must sacrifice! And, I promise, prices will go down because you will now be on equal footing with all the previously rich fat cats. Stores will have to cater to you now, not just them!
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Of course not! You may still go to any store you'd like. And since grocers will no longer be able to selfishly squander the profits of their stores on their own personal interests, there will be more stores than ever!!



    People will create because they have to.



    It will be just the opposite. No more poverty to bring us down! No more oppression by rich fat cats! Everyone will be the same!
    No more corruption and with this, each government will HAVE to be there simply to make the country a better place. There will be no ulterior motive. How lovely would that be?
    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
    Jeanwah wrote:
    It's interesting, I love the idea since it would get rid of greed and that's what's destroying people, frankly.

    EXACTLY!!!! It will get rid of greed. Since no one is allowed to have more than $50,000 / year, no one will want it.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    No more corruption and with this, each government will HAVE to be there simply to make the country a better place. There will be no ulterior motive. How lovely would that be?

    It would be great. It would be impossible to be corrupt.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    The thread made you express your true beliefs, which is really difficult these days, getting people on the left to directly tell you what they believe in.

    FFG, congrats on an excellent thread!
    Well I don't consider myself to be on the left... more of a middle of the line realist (who can also dream :o hmm... not sure where I'm going with this) but I've never been one to shy away from saying what I really believe in :)
    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
    Jeanwah wrote:
    It's interesting, I love the idea since it would get rid of greed and that's what's destroying people, frankly.

    I think it's apathy, laziness, jealousy and feelings of entitlement that are destroying people. Or in other words, they are destroying themselves.
    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:
    Oh, phew. Otherwise this would never work for me.



    But everyone must sacrifice! And, I promise, prices will go down because you will now be on equal footing with all the previously rich fat cats. Stores will have to cater to you now, not just them!
    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.
    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
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    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.
    that too... BUT that is down to our lifestyles which is a product of greed...
    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

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