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Not "easily", since the difference is one of several orders of magnitude. A person making 60K has to work three years to make as much someone making 180K. A per
by astazangasta 8y ago
Not "easily", since the difference is one of several orders of magnitude. A person making 60K has to work three years to make as much someone making 180K. A person making 200K has to work five hundred years to make as much as someone making 100M.
No one works hard enough to "deserve" that much money; this is why kings used to appeal to divine right. Nowadays the justifications are non-existent, we just pretend otherwise because we are cowards.
While we're speaking of "deserving" our money, what moral framework do we use to make this calculus? I'm dubious you could identify a credible moral universe in which one person deserves hundreds of millions, while hundreds of millions work themselves to the bone and still deserve nothing.
- scarface74 8y agoYes mathematically you are correct. But emotionally, it is just as out of reach for many people to make six figures as it is for most people to make a billion. When people start voting for policies that "tax the rich", the people making twice as much as they make are going to be lumped in with people making 100x as much. As far as moral argument. How can I make the "moral argument" that I deserve to make five or six times what the custodian makes for just typing on a keyboard and creating pretty architectural diagrams in Visio? Also, if both the person bringing home $5000/month and the person bringing home $15,000/month both have bills totaling $4000/month. The person bringing home $15K a month can build wealth 11 times faster.