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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: ]
#2107520 - 11/14/03 07:24 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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i'm afraid not. that may be the practice of a very few firms, but in the market at large, in order to generate revenue, you must create wealth.
Who says any revenue is actually being generated as opposed to merely acquired?? I should also remind you that only a "very few firms" control the bulk of the "the market" in this country.
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corporations also cannot steal without some kind of governmental interference, or lack of appropriate policing, in the market. as limited as the situation you're referring to is, if the government would stick to doing it's job, it wouldn't exist at all.
Correct. And thats exactly the situation that exists under the junta, whose corporate liasons are well known and documented. Even before the junta, one could argue that our government functioned similarly to that of Iran or the USSR, that being as a hit squad for a tiny circle of financial elites known as the "central comittee" in the USSR and the "Guardian Council" in Iran. In the US its a consortium of military, prison, oil, and media oligopolists which has not been codified into the government as in the other cases. edit: I forgot to include the pharmaceutical companies in the US ruling council (or whatever you want to call it).
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Annapurna1]
#2107584 - 11/14/03 07:56 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Who says any revenue is actually being generated as opposed to merely acquired?? corporations acquire wealth by exchanging the goods or services they create with the public. now... the economic value of something is determined by the things for which it can be voluntarily exchanged. therefore, the revenue they bring in is equal to the goods and services they create. you can go on and on about how corporations are in bed with the government, and indeed they may be, but the fact is that most of the market is non-coercive. the few cases where there is actual coercion taking place in the market are only because the government has either overstepped its bounds or shirked in its duties. i understand what you're trying to say but its relevence is rather limited in this discussion.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: ]
#2107763 - 11/14/03 09:17 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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"execs are paid to run a company. if they suck at it, they get fired, and that doesn't help them make any money. they do a job, just like anyone else. i don't think you understand how the management of a corporation operates or how they are selected."
Look at Enron. It's just the biggest and most public case of the high-level exec's totally raping a company into the ground to line their own pockets. It happens ALL THE TIME, just generally on not quite so large of a scale.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: PsiloKitten]
#2107850 - 11/14/03 09:49 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Who gave them the means to take flight school, fly to the US, live in the US, plan, etc?
Annapurna1 was insinuating that corporations were to blame for 9/11. I merely said the truth; that Islamic extremists were the ones who did it. "Corporations" seem to be the scapegoated boogeymen for all liberals to scream about, even when these entities had nothing to do with the tragedy in question.
Who gave them the means to take flight lessons? The terrorist financers who were funding these terrorists. Neither the American government nor corporations had anything to do with it.
Who allowed them into the U.S. to live here, and to plan? U.S. immigration did. The only way to keep all people who want to do bad things out is to close the borders to everyone. We would also have to conduct surveillance on every Muslim or Arab male in this country. If that happened liberals would scream about how racist America was.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: PsiloKitten]
#2107870 - 11/14/03 09:54 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Another quirk of liberals that I have noticed: They are incapable of giving any type of positive comment in regards to America, and they are incapable of giving any type of negative comment in regards to it's enemies.
So, when Islamic terrorists kill 3,000 people, they scream, " American intelligence failed!!". Yet they don't say a word about the disgusting actions of 19 men who decided to murder thousands of innocents. I am very critical of this country and it's foreign policy, but I don't fall prey to cliche attitudes that guide what I think. These "It's always America's fault" comments are knee-jerk ideological garbage.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Annapurna1]
#2107894 - 11/14/03 10:00 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bullshit.
Show me PROOF.
Show me proof that corporations were involved in the planning, execution, and coverup of the September 11 attacks. I am open to any idea as long as it is backed up by indisputable evidence.
Please give me proof and not hackneyed left-wing conspiracy theory garbage.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Mushmonkey]
#2107917 - 11/14/03 10:09 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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A man gets his education, goes to work on the board of a company, and all of the sudden something is wrong with that?"
Well, usually, yes.
Because he endevours to rape those that actually are DOING work for the company out of their money. He endevours to rape those who invest money in their company of it.
In short, steal steal steal and run. Most high exec's care only for their own pocket and will destroy anything and anyone to pad their own wallet.
You are using a few examples of corrupt CEO's to justify an opinion that all CEO's are evil. That is stupidity. Unless you know each and every CEO in this country and how he operates his business, you have no right to make idiotic assumptions like this.
"Why do they do that? Because us consumers in advanced countries want things to be as cheap as possible."
That's a bit of a corporate cop-out. Sure, it's so the price can stay low.. but the price could certainly be lower if they weren't paying their CEO $100 million a year salary, with another $100 million in bonuses, and another $250 million in stock options.
The reason they are paid so much is because their jobs are hard. Running a cash register doesn't require much skill or effort and that is why it isn't compensated well. Running a company in a competitive market IS difficult and requires massive amounts of effort and skill. That is why they are paid well. And if a board of directors is stupid enough to give somebody millions of dollars who then proceeds to run the company into the ground, then that is their own damn fault.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: RandalFlagg]
#2108108 - 11/14/03 11:27 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said: Bullshit. Show me PROOF. Show me proof that corporations were involved in the planning, execution, and coverup of the September 11 attacks. I am open to any idea as long as it is backed up by indisputable evidence. Please give me proof and not hackneyed left-wing conspiracy theory garbage.
Here's the PROOF, right out of the horse's mouth:
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Rebuilding America's Defenses, p63: Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event ? like a new Pearl Harbor.
(The above was written exactly one year before 9/11) What is meant by "revolutionary change" is explained in the Statement of Principles (!!signatories!!). Also worth considering: * The junta's blatant interference with the 9/11 investigation * The hijacker's passports were displayed on TV in pristine condition within an hour after the north tower fell. Unfortunately, nobody will ever find a smoking gun; but that doesnt mean that the gun was never there...As far as corporate involvement, one need look no further than Dick Cheney.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Annapurna1]
#2108162 - 11/15/03 12:06 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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"You are using a few examples of corrupt CEO's to justify an opinion that all CEO's are evil. That is stupidity. Unless you know each and every CEO in this country and how he operates his business, you have no right to make idiotic assumptions like this."
There's many examples of corruption you can dig up, there's just recently been a few really big ones on the news. About 5 years ago, the same thing happened to the company my dad worked for. Last year, the company I was working for, the same thing was in the process of happening. Oh and also, that particular company hid roughly 1/3 to 1/2 of all their inventory from the gov't, by shifting it around to avoid inventory counts. That's tax evasion bucko. But yes, they're in the process of running things into the ground for their own personal benefit. It's happening all around you man. It always has been.
I'm not saying any schmoe could be a CEO.. I'm just saying they're corrupt thieves. I mean, seriously dude. We all know government is corrupt. On the national level, I'm sure we'd agree that ALL elected officials are at least SOMEWHAT evil. There's a certain amount of lying, back-scratching and whatnot that you've GOT to do to get to that level of power. Corporate America's no different, except there's less lying (because you don't need to secure votes from the general public) and more back-scratching (because you do need more approval from those in power). Seriously man, don't delude yourself for one minute that anyone can make it to that level of power by being an honest, fair, kind-hearted, unselfish, generous person. It's not compatable with qualities that are looked for in a CEO.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: ]
#2108307 - 11/15/03 01:41 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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the advantage that some corporations may come away with from some kind of warfare is not that they are in a position to steal wealth Come on mush, look at Iraq. They're breaking every international law in the book by privatising everything they can get their hands on. It's robbery - pure and simple. execs are paid to run a company. if they suck at it, they get fired, and that doesn't help them make any money You want to see the size of the golden handshakes these directors get for running companies into the ground. Recession and downturns in company profits has had zero effect on the enormous wage rises and pay-offs these people award themselves - on the contrary, as performance has dropped, directors payoffs have kept increasing. Sucking at your job these days really doesn't matter for these people.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Mushmonkey]
#2108407 - 11/15/03 02:49 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mushmonkey said: I'm not saying any schmoe could be a CEO.. I'm just saying they're corrupt thieves.
If you mean all of them, you are very ignorant.
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Seriously man, don't delude yourself for one minute that anyone can make it to that level of power by being an honest, fair, kind-hearted, unselfish, generous person. It's not compatable with qualities that are looked for in a CEO.
Seriously, don't delude yourself into thinking you have all the answers. That you know the hearts and actions of people you've NEVER met, NEVER worked for and know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT. You are lacking in knowledge and experience to make such a broad and unfounded generalization. Tell us, how many CEOs have you hired? How do you know what qualities are looked for? You have been on the board of directors of how many companies?
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Evolving]
#2108549 - 11/15/03 04:16 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: RandalFlagg]
#2108665 - 11/15/03 07:45 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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The reason they are paid so much is because their jobs are hard.
As hard as those 13 year old girls slaving in their factories in south east asia? How many CEO's do you think could work as hard as the average 13 year old girl in one of those places? Do you think Bill Gates would keep up? Seriously? My guess is the first time one of the guards slapped him in the face for slacking and broke his glasses he'd bust into tears and suffer complete mental, physical and emotional collapse within 1-3 weeks.
a competitive market IS difficult and requires massive amounts of effort and skill
As hard as anyone else in the company works? Do managers have as much skill as the average technical guy for example? Do they really put in anymore effort than anyone else in the company? Enough effort to justify paying themselves hundreds of times more than anyone else? Not to mention the free cars, free perks, long lunches, entertaining business friends on expensive days out all courtesy of the company?
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: RandalFlagg]
#2108675 - 11/15/03 07:58 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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The reason they are paid so much is because their jobs are hard. Running a cash register doesn't require much skill or effort and that is why it isn't compensated well. Running a company in a competitive market IS difficult and requires massive amounts of effort and skill. That is why they are paid well. And if a board of directors is stupid enough to give somebody millions of dollars who then proceeds to run the company into the ground, then that is their own damn fault.
Running a cash register requires alot more skill and effort than rubber stamping a few papers and playing golf all day...which is all those pricks do, along with mass-firing a productive workforce to loot their incomes...
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Xlea321]
#2108802 - 11/15/03 10:21 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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The reason they are paid so much is because their jobs are hard.
As hard as those 13 year old girls slaving in their factories in south east asia?
Let me rephrase the word "hard". When I said the job of managing a large company was hard, it obviously is not physically taxing. What someone's labor is worth is determined by how difficult the job is to do. Anybody is capable of sitting in a factory and sewing a button on a shirt. Not everybody has the brains to run a company in a competitive environment. These people are paid well for doing something that most people are not capable of doing.
How many CEO's do you think could work as hard as the average 13 year old girl in one of those places? Do you think Bill Gates would keep up? Seriously? My guess is the first time one of the guards slapped him in the face for slacking and broke his glasses he'd bust into tears and suffer complete mental, physical and emotional collapse within 1-3 weeks.
Alex, you continually harp upon the conditions of these foreign factories to me. Yet, I have repeatedly said that I don't think American companies should be doing business in countries that don't allow free elections. If these people are allowed to elect leaders who can enact legislation, then they can affect their working conditions.
a competitive market IS difficult and requires massive amounts of effort and skill
As hard as anyone else in the company works? Do managers have as much skill as the average technical guy for example? Do they really put in anymore effort than anyone else in the company?
They might not put forth more effort, but they put forth more skill in a much more demanding job.
By the way, I was related to a CEO of a company. An eighty hour work week was a "light" week for him.
Enough effort to justify paying themselves hundreds of times more than anyone else?
They themselves don't determine what they are paid. The board of directors does. The board of directors is elected by the shareholders. The shareholders are the citizens who hold stock in the company.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Annapurna1]
#2108821 - 11/15/03 10:31 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Running a cash register requires alot more skill and effort than rubber stamping a few papers and playing golf all day...which is all those pricks do, along with mass-firing a productive workforce to loot their incomes...
You call them pricks. Have you ever met a CEO? Have you met the majority of them? How can you claim to know that they are assholes or not? You are basing your view of them on a few highly publicized cases and warping it to fit your pejudices.
Your bias is unbelievable. It clouds your view of reality.
To show the hypocrisy that taints your thinking, think on this for a second: Think of the total percentage of CEO's who have been indicted for wrong-doing and corruption. And then think of the total percentage of black males who have been indicted for committing crimes. I think you will find that the percentage of black males who commit crimes is much higher than the percentage of CEO's who commit crimes. You demonize the entire upper management population of America, but of course you would never demonize the entire black race, because that wouldn't be politically correct.
I mentioned this in another message: I used to be related to a CEO who easily worked 80-100 hours a week. He didn't play golf and goof off. He worked hard, he was good at what he did, and he did something that many people are not capable of doing.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: RandalFlagg]
#2108843 - 11/15/03 10:45 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think it should be perfectly clear from the other posts here which "pricks" im talking about. Your forgetting that only a tiny minority of CEOs are in "the entire upper management population of America"; and those are the ones that are looting out the masses, starting wars, etc. that really are pricks.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Xlea321]
#2108856 - 11/15/03 11:01 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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The reason they are paid so much is because their jobs are hard.
As hard as those 13 year old girls slaving in their factories in south east asia? How many CEO's do you think could work as hard as the average 13 year old girl in one of those places? Do you think Bill Gates would keep up? Seriously? My guess is the first time one of the guards slapped him in the face for slacking and broke his glasses he'd bust into tears and suffer complete mental, physical and emotional collapse within 1-3 weeks.
the reason they are paid so much is not because their job is difficult, but because the work they do is more valuable, and while just about anyone can sew a soccerball together, there are very few who are qualified to run a large corporation.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Annapurna1]
#2108863 - 11/15/03 11:06 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Seriously man, don't delude yourself for one minute that anyone can make it to that level of power by being an honest, fair, kind-hearted, unselfish, generous person. It's not compatable with qualities that are looked for in a CEO
I don't think anyone can make it in this society, period, by being honest, fair, kind-hearted, and unselfish.
It goes for the lower levels of employment, too. Go to any sales floor and see who makes more money, gets more praise from the management, and is more likely to get promoted: the honest, non-pushy, laid back salesmen who is truly looking out for customers, or the shady, pushy, amped up salesman who misleads customers.
every sales situation I've worked in (guitars, car audio, electronics, etc...) it was always the latter salesman. Most consumers have reacted to this by becoming more submissive, as per Timothy Leary's Interpersonal Circumplex. It really makes me grind my teeth when customers walk into a store and ask the salesman for advice, treating him like a trusted friend the whole time. Most people would rather let a salesman think for them (and rip them off) then do a little research from a trustworthy independant source.
But yeah... you cant survive by being totally altruistic. Even preachers have to collect tithes.
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Re: Class Warfare: Hatred of the wealthy [Re: Annapurna1]
#2108864 - 11/15/03 11:07 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor
??? That is not proof of anything. It is merely a statement of fact.
From what I saw on their website these guys are interested in overhauling the American military, ensuring American interests abroad, and promoting democracy.
It is a simple fact that if a catastrophic event happens, this galvanizes people to meet that threat. This concept is not new and has been around for a long time. Just because they mentioned something that is patently true does not mean THEY, any government officials, or any corporation officials were involved in the 9/11 attacks.
* The junta's blatant interference with the 9/11 investigation
Is not proof of involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Maybe they are trying to hide something, but you have NO clue what they are trying to hide. It could be allegations about the Saudis funding terror or it could be about threats that were not taken seriously and that ended up being true. It could be anything. You don't know and I don't know, so don't jump to stupid conclusions.
The hijacker's passports were displayed on TV in pristine condition within an hour after the north tower fell.
Think about this for a second. According to cell-phone calls from passengers on the plane, the hijackers were Arab. So airport officials checked all of the men on the plane registry who were Arab. They then notified officials who looked them up. Their passport pictures were found and given to a news agency. In todays modern world with fast information retrieval at our fingertips, it is not unreasonable to assume that the hijacker's identities and pictures were found and broadcast very quickly.
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