And, is this fictional person "greedy" for having earned that income? Or is this person a "doer"?
2007-12-26 08:36:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If this person got it legally, then he/she earned it and is better described as an achiever. A good way to celebrate it is a 1 week vacation in Hawaii with the spouse.
2007-12-26 08:49:55 · answer #1 · answered by Lincolnite 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would probably celebrate by paying off my parents house and my wife's parents house. After that I'd probably be out of money from the raise and live my life just as I did before I got it. I might buy a couple CDs.
Is this fictional person greedy for having earned that income or are they a doer?
Well it depends a lot on how they got that money. If they are a business owner then it depends on how the company's profits are distributed. If that person is the only employee, then no it's not greedy. If they are gouging someone else's wages to get that raise then yes, it is greedy.
If instead this person works for someone else I can tell you this: No one is worth that much to a company unless they are the public face of it. Therefore, I'd say that they are not greedy since they have to take the salary as comensurate with the title they hold. Would you take Walmart as seriously if their CEO was paid 28k a year? Most people wouldn't.
There are a lot of variables in this question. I don't think anyone can really give you a concrete answer. Not without factoring in their own assumptions at least.
2007-12-26 09:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greedy maybe maybe not, but perhaps lucky...depends on how they "earned" the money. I doubled my income one year because I was lucky enough to be in a lucrative bonus plan in company an industry tied to the mortgage industry. -- interest rates down company income up. Then we were acquired and got big severance package. I didn't work any harder the year before. And the top execs made millions of the merger and severance packages. I will give you that I was enough of a "doer" to get my corporate position, but I also was lucky enough to have had to very intelligent middle class parents who valued education and work, and paid for my college education.
Say I committed fraud through some financial scheme to double my income -- that would make me greedy.
2007-12-26 08:49:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The dude is just lucky. There a whole lot of doers out there...that won't make that kind of jack. The UPS, Fedex folks are all out there making it happen and they won't see that kind of change...nor will most firemen, policemen and certainly none of our soldiers risking their lives on a daily basis.
Few people earn what their are worth and a great many others are paid waaaaayyy more than they deserve.
2007-12-26 09:03:59 · answer #4 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would celebrate if I made $149K, and definitely anymore than that. It would represent the fruits of earned labor.
The problem with those who call this greedy is simple: they will not earn it themselves and are jealous of those who have the skill to.
2007-12-26 09:12:16 · answer #5 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like that very much. I would even like it very much if it was at the first level. I would probably celebrate by going out to dinner. I don't know if I would be considered greedy, but if I worked for it I wouldn't care if some jerk called me greedy for working hard.
2007-12-26 08:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by Matt V 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We need more information to answer the question.
How about the person in question supplying their history of community service and charitable donations.
Using the King Solomon method, "There is that withholds substance and tends to poverty, and there is that scatters abroad and tends to plenty"
A good history of Charity is an indicator for potential increase in personal wealth.
2007-12-26 09:11:10 · answer #7 · answered by Guerilla Liberal fighter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would pay off my mortgage.
As for the fictional person, not knowing what that person did to double the income, the last two questions are unanswerable.
2007-12-26 08:40:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The information provided gives us no way of knowing whether this person is greedy or not.
But yes if my own personal income increased that much I would definitely feel good about it.
2007-12-26 08:39:36 · answer #9 · answered by sociald 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would simply try to find productive ways to spend it that aren't completely self-serving.
You can only keep what you have by giving it away... any spiritualist will tell you that.
Money that sits around becomes corrupt. After keeping money around for so long, a rich person will convince themselves that they are actually poor and that's when the greed sets in.
2007-12-26 08:57:20 · answer #10 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋