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I mean seriously why should they be paid so much money? What do they produce? No technology, products, services? Nothing. This is income inequality at the finest.
What an unbelievable system!
Why mad at CEOs? Hell at least they lead companies that produce something. Let's apply the income equality across the board, starting with Hollywood.
I am supporting Sen. Sanders. I expect he will raise taxes on income like taking the upper limit of Social Security taxes. I would tax all income from all sources with a base deductible at the 90th percentile. The top tax rates would be set at an exponential rate from 30 to 90%. That way an income of $50,000,000 would result in a after tax income of $5,000,000. That should be enough to be able to eat, drink or drug yourself to death.
So you would tax someone 90% of their income? I hope this is a joke.
WHy do people complain about this stuff? They earned it. I am a hard worker, if I chose to be in entertainment I perhaps too could be making that much money. So what a small percentage of people make tons of money, how does that affect you? It doesn't. Many of these wealthy people live at work, they aren't just sitting at home watching tv. If someone is going to complain about this stuff perhaps they just aren't happy with their own situation.
Some people would consider this to be 'defending freedom', but personally I think the less we demand from others (and ourselves), the worse things will get.
An enlightened society would seek to elevate humanity, not cater to its basest impulses in the name of profit.
Too many people have made too much money giving us things we don't actually need-- things that don't improve our lives, the environment, or society in the slightest. They isolate us from everything around us while making everyone stupider, angrier, more distracted, more entitled, etc.
But of course, now someone will just interject with the whole 'who are you to decide what's good for people?', 'everything's subjective', 'why are you trying to take my junk food and iPhone away from me?' etc... as if consumer choice is paramount, even though it's actually an illusion and is more determined by social pressures than free will.
At some point everyone is going to be forced to admit that the advertisers and marketers understand us better than we understand ourselves, that they have an arsenal of tactics that are highly effective at overriding our free will, and for which most people are not as prepared as they think. Our vision of ourselves as dignified, capable, freethinking individuals isn't as true to reality as we want to believe it is.
I don't want to take away anyone's freedom... I just want people to recognize the difference between being empowered and being manipulated.
I understand that, and it's tempting, but I don't think anyone has the right (much less the ability) to engineer society. People like to think that society can be centrally planned, but nobody is so wise as to determine what is best for everyone else.
Marketers definitely understand people better than those people understand themselves, but I don't see that as a reason to step in and determine people's choices for them for their own good. It's mostly a moral thing for me, but I also don't think it works practically either. As I said, it's tempting to want your plan implemented, but best to get out of the way, IMO.
Don't be mad at me. I am just trying the liberal ideology.
As others have mentioned, if you're seriously mad which I doubt, then do not go to the movies, buy movies, pay for cable, buy game tickets, buy any product that uses a celebrity or athlete to endorse said product, don't buy music, nothing. Until you do that, then I suggest you no more complaints.
Yup. When i was younger, I loved watching the Oscars. Once I became an adult and realized its a party thrown by famous millionaires to give awards to other famous millionaires, to praise each other and to make left-wing political statements, and they take over network TV for a whole evening to broadcast it to us little people, I started to despise the Oscars.
Are some CEOs overpaid? Yes. But those are typically CEOs of companies that provide vital services like food, medicine, financial services and housing. Nobody needs TV or movies to survive.
And with all those screams of income inequality, nobody seems to care that someone like Jon Stewart was making 300 times more money than the staff that produces his show. He gets a pass. Its absolute hypocrisy -- only criticize people on the other side, while giving a pass to people on our side that do the same things we hate.
The Oscars is one night on one tv station for about 4 hours. The Oscars does not take over network tv, you have PLENTY of other viewing options.
I assume you sneer at the ESPY's, Tony's, the PEN awards, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. then too?
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