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originally posted by: tavi45
a reply to: Metallicus
So the Walton kids deserve their pay too? They sure as hell built nothing at all. Their daddy did the work. All they've done is destroy the middle class, the small business owners, and the rights of workers everywhere. Teddy Roosevelt is floating around somewhere frothing at the mouth with anger. Everything he fought for is just gone.
It's sad how all the ideals of America are just dead and give except the bad ones. We kept the racism, greed, and warmongering but dropped the opportunity, equal rights, and democracy.
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
I think the biggest problem in America is gov intervention and over regulation in the private sector..
IE gov over reach....
You want to kill the US economy any worse then what it is and drive companies over seas even more?
Start letting the gov tell them what they can make.....
originally posted by: tavi45
a reply to: Metallicus
I am in the same ballpark. The vast vast majority of CEOs did not build their company. They were given leadership of an already existing company. The Walton kids are not CEOs but the 2nd largest company in the world's founder is dead.
originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti
At least corporations produce something to make life better for everyone one way or another.
originally posted by: Britguy
originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti
At least corporations produce something to make life better for everyone one way or another.
Do they?
Listening to the news recently while driving to work, they announced that Facebook is now listed as a $200Billion corporation. WTF?
What, of any tangible use to mankind does FB produce? Simple answer is "nothing at all". What it does provide though is another over-hyped vehicle for trading on in the big casino that is the stock market.
There are many similar cases though as well as FB, with share prices set and propped up simply for the purpose of making the right people rich(er), but offering nothing of any real value to the ordinary person.