Politics and Money

[GEO928]

pn...I have to disagree....I think you're on the wrong track here:

There are those who are payed $1 Million per year,
are they 20 times more intelligent, more productive than average?

No, the payer wants an advantage. To make more money.
To make more money, the employee must make more for the employer.
20 times more.....

The only way to make 20 times more than the next guy is to cheat!

let's take Wall Street out of the picture....that's pure corruption and shenanigans....

but, in regard to normal business and real goods and services, if we look closely, we'll see that people are paid for two things:

1) decision making

2) bringing in revenue

people move up the corporate ladder and get a larger reward for making decisions and accepting responsibility for those decisions.....just a brief examination of the a business structure will reveal that most workers WANT DIRECTION.....they do not want to make or be responsible for a decision....hence, they are strictly "labor" and are paid accordingly for their "muscle" rather than their brain....

bring in revenue is the other path to higher pay....the people who invent things, modify products or find a way to procure things and bring them to the market place....

how many people here know how to get the oil the nation needs or invents a software program or simply knows who to contact and finds buyers for a product....

it's not cheating......it's called talent....and, those with the most talent are rewarded the most...

lastly, I think you can observe that the difference between successful people and the rest of the crowd is that the successful person is not the one with the best idea or most innate talent......rather, it is the person who who actually goes out and does something to make things happen....again....that's not cheating.....it's called focus and ambition.