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<blockquote data-quote="Ace_on_the_Turn" data-source="post: 2868054" data-attributes="member: 27417"><p>Typical DH demagoguery. It's simply amazing how you can believe such tripe. Because some on the left have the temerity to point out that there is a growing gap in earnings between the highest earners and the average worker, you decide that they want brain surgeons to make the same as janitors. No one is saying what you are claiming.</p><p></p><p>Maybe this, from the official voice of the left, Forbes, will shed some light on the issue for you:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/06/30/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise-widening-wealth-gap-cubicle-dweller-pay-barely-budges/2/#60d0102a5367" target="_blank">American CEOs are earning compensation packages that are more than ten times greater than they were three decades ago...Meantime average U.S. workers made just 10.2% more in 2013 than they did 30 years ago. Top CEOs now make 300 times more than typical workers...The study also says that the rise in CEO pay over the last 30 years is more than double the stock market’s gains in the same time period...The paper also points out that high CEO pay “does not simply reflect the increased value of highly paid professionals in a competitive race for skills.” In other words, CEOs have not become more productive. Rather, they have grown more able to demand more valuable pay packages.</a></p><p></p><p>So, while the top earners are getting more and more and more, the average worker is not.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">For most workers, real wages have barely budged for decades.</span></a></p><p></p><p>You will, of course, go on telling yourself, and anyone who's unlucky enough to find themselves listening to your disquisition on the subject, that the left longs for a communist utopia. And you will still be wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace_on_the_Turn, post: 2868054, member: 27417"] Typical DH demagoguery. It's simply amazing how you can believe such tripe. Because some on the left have the temerity to point out that there is a growing gap in earnings between the highest earners and the average worker, you decide that they want brain surgeons to make the same as janitors. No one is saying what you are claiming. Maybe this, from the official voice of the left, Forbes, will shed some light on the issue for you: [URL='http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/06/30/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise-widening-wealth-gap-cubicle-dweller-pay-barely-budges/2/#60d0102a5367']American CEOs are earning compensation packages that are more than ten times greater than they were three decades ago...Meantime average U.S. workers made just 10.2% more in 2013 than they did 30 years ago. Top CEOs now make 300 times more than typical workers...The study also says that the rise in CEO pay over the last 30 years is more than double the stock market’s gains in the same time period...The paper also points out that high CEO pay “does not simply reflect the increased value of highly paid professionals in a competitive race for skills.” In other words, CEOs have not become more productive. Rather, they have grown more able to demand more valuable pay packages.[/URL] So, while the top earners are getting more and more and more, the average worker is not. [URL='http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/'][SIZE=3]For most workers, real wages have barely budged for decades.[/SIZE][/URL] You will, of course, go on telling yourself, and anyone who's unlucky enough to find themselves listening to your disquisition on the subject, that the left longs for a communist utopia. And you will still be wrong. [/QUOTE]
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