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originally posted by: nightbringr
originally posted by: intrptr
A measure of ones worth is not determined by how much money and stuff they have.
Rather, how we behave towards others.
But that's not what this is about.
You can be the nicest person in the world, but if you cannot perform at your job, you are not worth what you are being paid.
originally posted by: luthier
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: JDeLattre89
a reply to: SprocketUK
When you allow small numbers of people to stash away billions of dollars in trust funds and suchlike it means that there is less liquid money out there in the economy for everyone to chase. At some point, people realise that carrot is getting smaller and further away and they give up reaching for it.
What would have us do? Force people to spend money they earned . . . that doesn't sound right. Not everyone wants to spend their money as they earn it, and some spend it more wisely than others.
And the ones who spend their money most wisely are the ones who tend to become wealthy. And then they become hated for their wisdom.
What a lot of people don't get is that no one really has giant vaults of hoarded wealth like Scrooge McDuck. In order to have money and a continuous flow of it, you have to use the money you have wisely.
For those of us on the bottom, we scramble to get the capital together to break into that tier where wealth can create wealth, so we never really understand this, and it's why when one of us wins the lottery, we often end up squandering that wealth and becoming miserable rather than making it.
How are there families like the Vanderbilts, Rothchilds, Rockefellors, Hiltons, Waltons, etc? Some of those people woukd have trouble spending their cut of their ancestors money.
That is one of the reasons I believe that corporations should fund grants instead of the Government.
Who is going to pay for the roads and the civil infrastructure that these corporations and their employees, as well as their customers, rely on? Who is going to ensure the safety of their product and their employee's working conditions?
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: nightbringr
originally posted by: intrptr
A measure of ones worth is not determined by how much money and stuff they have.
Rather, how we behave towards others.
But that's not what this is about.
You can be the nicest person in the world, but if you cannot perform at your job, you are not worth what you are being paid.
Thats the worlds version of worth. The only thing you are taking out of here is you. How worthy are you to outlive your 'worth'?