Should we all get paid the same?
I baggsy a 35/hr a week job doing light duties. Someone else can do 18 hour days for the same pay as me.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:42, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

No, of course we shouldn't all get paid the same, and at no point in my post did I imply this
You're just taking the typical Daily Mail line, I'm assuming partly tongue in cheek.
( Bazongaloid, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:45, Reply)

Yes, mate. Sorry.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:47, Reply)

^ this ^
i agree with the rest of these questions, and would add more, like "why don't nurses and teachers and other valuable professions get paid more when they work they do is so important".

but not this: "why are the cunts at the top of the pile STILL taking home far more than they could ever possibly need to the detriment of everyone else in the country" - if they work in the private sector, then it's their firm's choice to pay them that. nobody else's business. and the firm will only do that if they think they are worth it.

there should be much greater transparency about those who get paid huge amounts in the public sector, though. i would like to start with my local council, and the dude at the top who gets paid a LOT for FUCK-ALL as far as i can see!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:49, Reply)

Swipe, as you well know
the shareholders which decide the pay packets of these CEOs are institutional investors who sit on each others boards and will always award whatever wage increases they want.

There is plenty of transparency in the public sector already, a bit more in the private sector would be preferable, along with an actual government commitment to simplifying the tax system so there are fewer loopholes.

I don't mind someone earning that much as long as they are paying the same percentage of tax as me, but at that amount they are paying far lower rates of tax than someone earning a pittance.
( Bazongaloid, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:05, Reply)