Executive Salaries and Corn Flakes

Regarding CEOs, sport atheletes, celebs, etc., while it is perfectly legal for them to have such high salaries, I don't think it is moral, especially when there are so many people in the world that have to watch their children starve to death on a daily basis.This reminds me of Princess Diana. I had just started middle school back when her face was on the news 24/7. I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine who was a big fan of the princess.He went on and on and on how she was the most generous person in the world and that she ought to be saintified and all of that. What I had to say to him was that there was nothing noble about taking a tour of the world and that she were spending more money on her dresses, daily makeup, and parties than all her charity money put together. His response was, and I actually remember every word, that "it was her money, she could do whatever she want with it."Yes, it was her money and she had every right to do whatever she wanted with the money. But spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each day on makeup and dresses while proclaiming to be a saint?Part of being a follower of Christ is you care not because it is written somewhere in the bible but because you really really care from the bottom of your heart. I dare say that even if tomorrow I find out that God does not exist and had never existed, I would still continue to care. It's very disappointing to see so many Christians nowadays defending evangelical leaders like President Bush who got filthy rich by taking full advantage of the legal system. And not just evangelical leaders, but also other people who got very very rich off of exploiting foreign workers. If Christians in this country really care from the bottom of their hearts, they'd worry less about non-issues like gay marriage and who Britney Spears slept with last night and start focusing on the human right violations by American corporations on third world workers. If they really truly care about Christ's teachings, they would worry less about a corn flake and more about eliviating corruptions within the church.Anyway, that's my rant for the day.

To add onto what Rahvin said, just think of ENRON and other companies that were driven right down into the ground by CEO's and executives. While the companies were going out of bussiness and the average employee was receiving the bad news that he will not be able to "put food on his family", the wages and "earnings" of the executives and CEOs were several times higher than what those companies were receiving in profits.No, I am not advocating communism. No, I am not advocating the redistribution of wealth Robin Hood style. I am, however, advocating we as a society see through all the bollocks that company executives have fabricated for us and try to see the increasing income gap as not only a societal problem but also a human right issue.As Rahvin said, the poorer the person the more a single dollar is worth to him. In fact, being a poor college student, I found a dime the other day and valued it. When a company goes belly up, who do you think will suffer more, the average employee or the executives? Just think of it this way, when it comes to it, the executives could just retire to their own private islands and cry about their bussiness failures while the average employee has to try to find another way to "put food on his family".

Phat writes

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"put food on his family"?
Anyway, all typos aside,

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Have you been living under a rock?

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BTW what sort of salary cap would you suggest that the CEO's have?

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I don't know the answer to this. For now, I'm just a poor college student. However, just because I don't know the answer to this doesn't mean I can't tell when a CEO is getting too much pay for his contribution to the company. It's sort of like one of those questions on the SAT where you know it's definitely not A and it's definitely not B but by golly you can't figure out if it's C, D, or E.