work hard for normal amounts of money? - does it seem utterly mad to you that people being paid $15 an hour are not bothered by people being paid $150 an hour, $1500 an hr, $15,000 an hr, $150,000 an hr, $1,500,000 an hr, $15,000,000 an hour?
[bill gates, 1998, paid $18,000,000,000, = $27 billion in 2006 dollars = average of $1 billion per fortnight = $10,000,000 an hr, means peaks up to circa $15 million - bill gates av income US$500,000, for every hr he has worked]
i would think that people's sense of justice and injustice would be activated and outraged by $150 an hr - after all, who can work 10 times harder per hr? - but people arent bothered by A MILLION TIMES AVERAGE PAY
how can this be?
plus the fact that money is power, so someone being paid a million times average has a million times as much political power - ie, undemocratic, above the law, corrupt [eg, buying judges, buying politicians, buying hitmen, 'enforcers']
the law: like spiders webs - th grt brk thru
2006-10-07
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