[therefore they are entitled to limitless reward?]
if they are working smarter, they are using nature's gifts of 'smartness' & therefore are not entitled to reward for nature's gifts? if they are rewarded for smarts, then the wrong person is rewarded? it is rewarding the person for another's [nature's] contribution? the smarts are no effort, no sacrifice of time or life or energy or anything by the person rewarded? we should [for justice, ie peace, democracy, sustainable capitalism, preservation of the state, law, order, happiness, pleasure, leisure, freedom from terrorism, war & crime, problems, troubles, anxieties, pains, griefs, and all things good] only compensate [=pay] for personal loss [of time, life, energy, etc] not for having nature's gifts? since the person gave nothing [in the effortless natural use of the smarts], it robs everyone else to reward for nothing?
giving $500,000/hr is giving 50,000 hrs of others' work [time life energy] [welth & powr] for one hr's work?
2006-10-19 11:03:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
Is anyone robbing anyone of anything?
2006-10-23 02:56:51 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we don't pay people for how hard they work, we pay them for rarety and demand of skill. Smarter people should get more rewards because they are providing a better contribution otherwise they wouldn't be getting paid as much. They are fulfilling a need that others for some reason cannot do. Obviously one does not get paid for just being smart, they are applying their smarts in some way to get paid, so they are experiencing personal loss in some way. Like it or not "nature's" gifts are rewarded if not only to weed out those less fit for our society so we can evolve.
2006-10-19 11:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋