GabonX wrote:You seem bitter. Swearing and flaunting your own success in defense, while stirring up negativity towards people and their companies based on nothing except a number attached to their names... I just wonder what you might have been able to do had the energy you've expended here been directed towards something more personally productive.
I'm not bitter. I get a little angry and frustrated when people who are supposed to be fiscally conservative are just conservative pundit parrots. Yes, I suppose in the 12 to 30 seconds it took for me to respond in this thread (per post), I could have been more personally productive.
GabonX wrote:Let me ask, in your opinion as a highly educated, highly paid, highly intelligent professional, how much can a person make before you feel obliged to boycott the company they work for? I mean it's easy enough to draw the line at $60 million. You'd only be boycotting Simon Property Group and CBS, but what about companies like Viacom or Motorola, both of which gave their CEO in excess of $40 million?
I don't have any particular dollar amount. I look at whether the company has done well, what the company does, and other factors. For example, I have refused to purchase an iphone because Apple is hypocritical.
GabonX wrote:How much more than you is it appropriate for someone else to make?
Not sure. It depends on a number of factors, including how much the CEO had to do with the company's success or failure in the prior period. How the company compensates its employees. Whether the company uses American labor or foreign labor. For example, I actually won't boycott Simon Property Group (mostly because I do not use that company).
GabonX wrote:If you can answer that question I feel sorry for you as I'm free of such self imposed limitations. People have a tendency to resent those who are more successful than themselves. Even people who consider themselves successful and are by any number of standards still seem to resent the success of others if it is disproportionate to their own.. Perhaps this is something people do innately.
Perhaps you didn't read my post above, or more likely you're responding generally rather than specifically to me, but I don't begrudge Leslie Moonves for making that much money. My problem is not with the CEO or the individuals. My problem is with the company. My problem is also not with my own income being less than someone else's income. My problem is with the cost of products or services compared to the payment made to the CEO or other individual.
It appears that you have a problem with boycotting and/or capitalism. I suppose in medieval times when peasants wanted to leave the land of their lord to go work their own land, you were the peasant screaming about how the peasant was merely jealous and should work harder.
