BonsaiK said:
I'd happily take an increase in my taxes if it would allow for better funding for emergency services personnel, equipment maintenance, systems infrastructure and most especially wages.
Pay people what they're worth
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I'd happily take an increase in my taxes if it would allow for better funding for emergency services personnel, equipment maintenance, systems infrastructure and most especially wages.
Athletes get paid a lot because who pays them make more for them but and because there are less high performance athletes than doctors but yeah I see your point.
They might be paid a hefty sum, if they have a good specialization, after they've paid off their eight years of school(presuming student loans), plus their malpractice insurance, plus their other bills.Radeonx said:
Typically, until a doctor is finished with their general time, which I think in the USA is five years, they generally make about enough money to eat every other day.
This idea is communist. It requires a redistribution of wealth on the level of which no capitalist system would be able to see happen and not feel an overwhelming level of RAEG flow through their veins.
Sports players make more money then everyone sans organized religion because people pay good money to watch grown men try and cripple each other in an attempt to get a meaningless prize. This money piles up so fast that the only way the people owning a sports team could spend it is by giving it away liberally. Add in the trading wars, and you end up with people pretty much contesting to see who can throw the most money away in a vain attempt to get more money. not to mention the ego of sports players making teams pay them what the player feels he's worth or else he will sit out. No other contract I know of in the world allows a person to ignore what he's been contracted to do without serious repercussions.
Movie stars suffer even more from ego, to the point of people love to see them scoot across the room should they accidentally prick their finger. Hence the exorbatent fees charged.
Doctors and medical practitioners suffer from a conundrum. They have to charge enough to live comfortably and pay off years of medical school, and yet charge as little as to allow the most reasonable ammount of people they can handle, while accepting the fact that some people will be fucked by the system, no matter what.
These factors would require government attention in order to be rectified. This attention would not come from any capitalist government. Communist governments don't work, seriously. The ammount of beuracracy required ensures corruption at some important level, and is difficult to implement, let alone perfect to the degree needed not to have huge loops in the system's coverage.
Sports players make more money then everyone sans organized religion because people pay good money to watch grown men try and cripple each other in an attempt to get a meaningless prize. This money piles up so fast that the only way the people owning a sports team could spend it is by giving it away liberally. Add in the trading wars, and you end up with people pretty much contesting to see who can throw the most money away in a vain attempt to get more money. not to mention the ego of sports players making teams pay them what the player feels he's worth or else he will sit out. No other contract I know of in the world allows a person to ignore what he's been contracted to do without serious repercussions.
Movie stars suffer even more from ego, to the point of people love to see them scoot across the room should they accidentally prick their finger. Hence the exorbatent fees charged.
Doctors and medical practitioners suffer from a conundrum. They have to charge enough to live comfortably and pay off years of medical school, and yet charge as little as to allow the most reasonable ammount of people they can handle, while accepting the fact that some people will be fucked by the system, no matter what.
These factors would require government attention in order to be rectified. This attention would not come from any capitalist government. Communist governments don't work, seriously. The ammount of beuracracy required ensures corruption at some important level, and is difficult to implement, let alone perfect to the degree needed not to have huge loops in the system's coverage.
The thing is though, that the money you pay people has to come from somewhere. It'd be great if we could pay firemen, police and whatnot more than celebrities, but they simply don't produce money in the same way that actors and so on do. The money can't simply be taken from the profits of films and put into the salaries of the most important jobs.
Besides, police might save lives, but they can't do it without the infrastructure and society that we already have in place. In that respect, nearly every job is as important as every other.
Besides, police might save lives, but they can't do it without the infrastructure and society that we already have in place. In that respect, nearly every job is as important as every other.
Exactly...if you think movie people et al make too much money, stop paying to see movies and own DVDs etc.Suilenroc said:
Alternatively, restrict this to not paying for the rubbish stuff.