Maximum Wage (not a tax bracket)

Discussion in 'Business & Economics' started by Success_Machine, Apr 1, 2011.

  1. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Its true that in Japan and some parts of Europe there is a much narrower ratio between executive and manual labour incomes.

    And I'm sure this is primarily for cultural reasons.

    Japan is a 'collectivist' culture...whereas the US is 'individualistic'.

    As far as your CALORIC theory of value is concerned, its not all that far from Karl Marx or even Adam Smith...who believed that if a beaver pelt required twice as much effort to acquire as a deer pelt, it should be worth twice as much in arrowheads.
     
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  3. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    I'm not trying to prove my superior knowledge of business, and your line of reasoning is drifting off-topic. That is not the focus of this thread. The maximum wage of the top employees of an organization is the topic of this discussion. Stay on-topic or shut up.

    So, you're calling me out? LOL. I don't have to do anything you want me to do. This is a debate. I started it with an idea involving a maximum wage ratio to regulate payscales. It's my idea, not yours. I'm the one who thought it up, not you. From where I stand, you seem to be desperate to prove something.

    I have good idea, a maximum wage ratio to regulate payscales. You, supposedly with massive experience, rejected it based on ad hominem arguments. Your experience is contributing nothing of value to this discussion. Perhaps it's time to retire? Out with the old... you know the expression. You're in a rut. You only know one way of doing things.
     
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  5. adoucette Caca Occurs Valued Senior Member

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    No, you only think you have a good idea but you have provided no evidence that it is a good idea.

    Like somewhere this has been tried and shown to work.

    If you could do it though I think it would be a huge failure simply because I don't think you would find people who would spend the time to get the advanced training and then work hard for just 3 times the pay of the bottom tier who have little to no training (based on how companies are structured only a small number could ever hope to make it to tier 1 and 2 level pay).

    So the net is the Third tier is way too hard of a job requiring too much training and sacrifice for way too little remuneration.

    You ignore the fact that we now live in a world of global competition, this would prevent a company from raising the pay scales of the much larger bottom tiers and still be able to compete on a price basis with your products, thus keeping the salaries of the upper tiers severely limited, which would ultimately mean that the real talent that drives a company would be siphoned off by international companies simply by offering them four or five times their existing salaries. The net is if we structured our companies like this they would quickly lose out on the competition for talented workers. There would be a HUGE brain drain as talented people went to places where these DRASTIC wage restrictions weren't in place.

    Arthur
     
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  7. Read-Only Valued Senior Member

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    I am right on-topic = your ideas are completely stupid.



    Nope, not calling you out - just trying to get you to understand that you have NO idea what you are talking about.:bugeye: And I'm not concerned with trying to prove anything - it's YOUR stupid ideas and you've done NOTHING to prove that any one of them have ANY viability in the real world. If you cannot show proof of concept (which you CANNOT) then it's you who needs to shut up and just go away...



    My experience HAS contributed something to this "discussion." I've shown more than once that you are projecting a fantasy as if it were an idea.

    "Perhaps it's time to retire?" That's funny!!!

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    It shows that your reading comprehension and even the ability to add two numbers together are as poor and feeble as is your understanding of business. I gave you a personal timeline (30 years and 20 years) and you weren't even bright enough to realize that I didn't start the day I was born!! I'm already retired. (Doing quite well and enjoying it very much, too.)
     
  8. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    Already retired? Well, you know what's next.

    I don't need 30 years experience to bring an idea to the table. Nobody should be stopped from bringing an idea to the table because they aren't old enough. Implementing a maximum wage ratio would be easy too, a simple policy statement by the HR manager. That's it.

    If society relied on old codgers like you to approve & implement their ideas, nothing would ever happen, innovation would never take place. We'd still be riding horse-drawn carriages and sneering at those new-fangled gadgets those idiots were tinkering with.

    You know where most new ideas come from: Youth! Who's buying new ideas? Young people! Who invented them? Young people! You reach a certain age and you're no longer thinking creatively. That's the feebleness that you're experiencing right now. Age. Old people are stupid, that's the status quo, and that's the generation you come from. Sure you might understand one business model, but there are thousands, and they all work! The personnel in the organization merely have to follow the rules. That's all it takes, and it works.
     
  9. adoucette Caca Occurs Valued Senior Member

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    Immature people often think that.

    Arthur
     
  10. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    It's also realistic sometimes, because the average education of the retired generation is substantially lower. I can't speak to a specific person's education, but that is the status quo. I've had the experience of trying to teach old people how to use computers and cellphones, and they just don't get it. They don't understand the interface, or the motivation even. The whole idea of it is subjugated to the overriding an philosophy that they carry with them, sometimes it's religion, sometimes it's money, sometimes it's power. New ideas are rejected by them because of their personal philosophy that they hold dear and think represents the majority. I dont necessarily subscribe to that guy's philosophy. I like business, to a point. But I have my own ideas, and he doesn't fit into my business model. I don't think it would work out. How many times have you heard that. I heard it a few times, the reasoning known apparently only to the person who spoke it.
     
  11. Read-Only Valued Senior Member

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    You've bitten off more than you can chew with this one. I'm reporting you for being highly disrespectful and rude.

    Old people are stupid, eh? Show me ONE young person on the board of directors of any large company.

    Contrary to your ignorant way of thinking, there's NO age limit on creativity - and you also display a gross lack of understand if you actually believe (and you probably) do - that ALL business models work. You either haven't lived long enough to notice - or most likely haven't bothered to even watch - to know that hundreds of different models fail each and every year. And guess which group fails the most often. Give up? It's the NEW ones, like yours, that don't stand a chance.

    There's something else about those of us that are older that you aren't even aware of, and it's VERY important - it's called experience. While we may not always catch the winners every time, we know enough to be able to single out which one will fail - like all of yours are doomed to do.
     
  12. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    You need help, and a thicker skin. I thought you had business experience. Anyone who's had a paying job for more than a day knows that business people are the most vicious people around. I should be paid to communicate with you.

    Really? Used the internet recently? Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg. There's millions of others, usually due to nepotism.

    People who claim to have experience have been doing the same menial task for the last 30 years. Experience is overvalued.

    Doomed? Ha! I'm younger than you! That's the most obvious flaw in your reasoning. All I have to do is outlast you. And I will. Your greed will bring you alot of grief.
     
  13. YoYoPapaya Trump/Norris - 2012 Registered Senior Member

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    haha i like you succces machine

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  14. YoYoPapaya Trump/Norris - 2012 Registered Senior Member

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    Oh and a maximum wage would need to be worldwide and enforced with an iron fist. The easiest way would be to tax every penny earned above a certain amount by 100% and have death penalty for fraud.
     
  15. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    Thanks! I started this thread with little hope of constructive feedback from business types. People who don't like the idea don't have to participate in the discussion.

    I think the idea of a maximum wage ratio is great! There isn't any possible justification for paying someone $millions annually. It's just ludicrous. That is unless the organization is so successful that they can afford to proportionally reward all the employees who contributed to that extraordinary result.

    A divorce lawyer would probably agree.
     
  16. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    I've never met a business person who hasn't broken the law. Most figured they had no other option because of this or that financial situation. In reality they just needed outside help to get them through a financial crisis.

    Every country has rules. Some do enforce them with an iron fist.

    Death penalty for fraud? I dunno. Some pyramid schemes have ruined an awful lot of lives, caused alot of suicides. That might be justified as a maximum penalty in some cases.
     
  17. YoYoPapaya Trump/Norris - 2012 Registered Senior Member

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    The entire American economy is way too volatile due to massive lack of regulation. Hence the financial crisis. I wish people would grab their pitchforks and start doing something about it

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  18. YoYoPapaya Trump/Norris - 2012 Registered Senior Member

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    I think punishment for crimes should be measured by how much they cost the community.
     
  19. Read-Only Valued Senior Member

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    I'll just make this single point for now: Your attention and reading comprehension are VERY poor!!!!! I never said you were doomed, I meant your IDEAS were doomed. (You are still exhibiting precisely the same weak thought processes that I've been trying to point out to you through this entire conversation.)
     
  20. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    You mean like extending a soviet style economy throughout the entire world?

    Again, one of the first laws of economics is that consensuality always finds a way around coercion.
     
  21. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    I have to agree with that. It's worth stating: If it weren't for regulations, there would be no standards at all. Ya gotta have standards. I think organizations lack standards if that pay their management more than 5-times more than they pay their lowest paid worker.

    The guy at the top that thinks his work is so much more complicated, stressful, important, and deserving of compensation, than someone who for example sweeps floors, has lost touch with reality....

    That guy has seen clean floors so often that he's taking them for granted. But if he had to do that work himself, he wouldn't have nearly as much time left over to spend on his "important" tasks.

    I read recently about the CEO of Ford who received ~$26 million in compensation last year. Whoa! That's like a lottery jackpot times two, and he does that every year. And I bet he spends his days playing golf. I think, whenever he feels the urge to play golf, he should pick up a broom and start sweeping, because his compensation is totally out of whack with any standard of normalcy IMO.
     
  22. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    Dude. I don't need your input. If you don't like the idea you don't have to contribute to the discussion, and frankly I'd prefer if you didn't. I don't like your attitude.
     
  23. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    You've pointed out a basic problem with capitalism, fraud, in so many words. It's legal only as long as the customer can be convinced he's getting value for his money - even though he usually isn't. The guy selling him something usually isn't committing massive fraud, but he's probably nickel & diming everyone along the way.

    If it is revealed later however, that the guy was not delivering the product or service that was paid for, then coercion is employed.

    Like these guys who get paid so much money, it makes headlines. I'm not convinced they're delivering value for that money. Hence, my idea for a maximum wage ratio.
     
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