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The fairness of one act does not depend on the fairness of another act. It is not unfair to pay executives their worth because you don't pay janitors their wor
by diminoten 8y ago
The fairness of one act does not depend on the fairness of another act. It is not unfair to pay executives their worth because you don't pay janitors their worth.
Those two things are completely unrelated.
- nitrogen 8y agoActs do not occur in a vacuum. Especially with regard to economic inequality. And why the fixation on janitors? I never said janitors should be paid like executives, only that the paths to higher paying positions need to be more widely available.
- diminoten 8y agoNeed to be? Or else compensation isn't fair? No, that's wrong. The concept that everyone needs to be able to be obscenely wealthy or else obscene wealth is inherently unfair makes sense only if you believe everyone is entitled to everything, which simply isn't true. Everyone is entitled to some things, but no one is entitled to everything.
- rue 8y agoCompensation is literally a zero-sum game.
- diminoten 8y agoNo it isn't. A CEO does not make more money because the people under him make less, the money comes from very different places.