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What is so wrong with socialism?
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<blockquote data-quote="amanuensis63" data-source="post: 68411177" data-attributes="member: 365230"><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Over the past 30 years CEO pay has gone up by a few hundred percent on average. Middle class incomes have effectively stagnated. Who is taking and who is earning? Does the CEO of the company do 100 human lifetimes of work in a single year?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Let me tell you what I signed up for: I signed up for a country in which when I went to school and got my degrees and took my job and did my job every day and worked really hard I'd see wage increases.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Here's what I got: a year or so after joining a Fortune 50 company I was told that the company was taking the lead from other companies in the field and moving away from RAISES (which were "permanent") and moving more toward "BONUSES" (which are not permanent.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Meanwhile the CEO of the company a few years later was forced out because he was having some difficulties with ethics we all had to abide by. He got many millions of dollars to simply walk away.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I was sold a bill of goods. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That sounds important. What choice was made 30 years ago such that middle class wages would stagnate while those at the top kept advancing and becoming greater and greater? Was it some evolutionary step in which a race of SUPER BEINGS suddenly took control of the C-Suite?</p><p></p><p>Can you tell me why the majority of Middle Class workers would make such a choice that would stagnate them for a lifetime?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amanuensis63, post: 68411177, member: 365230"] [COLOR=#660000][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Over the past 30 years CEO pay has gone up by a few hundred percent on average. Middle class incomes have effectively stagnated. Who is taking and who is earning? Does the CEO of the company do 100 human lifetimes of work in a single year?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#660000][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Let me tell you what I signed up for: I signed up for a country in which when I went to school and got my degrees and took my job and did my job every day and worked really hard I'd see wage increases.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Here's what I got: a year or so after joining a Fortune 50 company I was told that the company was taking the lead from other companies in the field and moving away from RAISES (which were "permanent") and moving more toward "BONUSES" (which are not permanent.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Meanwhile the CEO of the company a few years later was forced out because he was having some difficulties with ethics we all had to abide by. He got many millions of dollars to simply walk away.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I was sold a bill of goods. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#660000][/COLOR] That sounds important. What choice was made 30 years ago such that middle class wages would stagnate while those at the top kept advancing and becoming greater and greater? Was it some evolutionary step in which a race of SUPER BEINGS suddenly took control of the C-Suite? Can you tell me why the majority of Middle Class workers would make such a choice that would stagnate them for a lifetime? [/QUOTE]
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