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Stuart G

(38,454 posts) Sun Jan 12, 2020, 12:52 PM Jan 2020

Is incompetence rewarded? You Be The Judge..(Not about Mr. Trump,)

...Is total incompetence rewarded? Is that possible? You be the Judge.. (idea about "You be the Judge" from the Saturday Evening Post...many years ago..)

...In a well known international company that makes airplanes, the big boss is fired by the board of directors for approval of an airplane that kills people. There is evidence that people that made the plane knew that the plane could kill people, but the big boss is not held responsible other than loosing his job. In the big boss's contract, he walks away with 50 million dollars. The plane that the big boss was responsible for has killed over 325 people. Is the big boss who approved this plane and allowing it to carry people, sitting in jail awaiting trail for killing more than 325 people? The answer is NO. But he knew the plane could kill, and did nothing...(or should have known-that was his job, to know ahead of time)..There is evidence that the people that actually made this thing, (the airplane) knew that it could kill.. but the big boss did nothing. Has the big boss been rewarded for approval of an airplane that kills? You be the judge..

...A well known country shoots down a plane that has 176 passengers and crew. Who is responsible for the shoot down?... The big boss of the country that controls the military that killed 176 people. -- says it was an "accident." That country lied about what it knew about the "shoot down" for a few days while the world waited.
... Is the big boss of that country going to be rewarded for this "mistake"? This event is still being discussed today. It is not known if the big boss of that country will be rewarded or punished for this mistake that killed 176 people...Will the country that is well known, do the same thing that the airplane company big boss did? Will incompetence be rewarded? You be the judge...Will the person that ordered the shoot down get money or sit in jail for the rest of his life? I have no idea. I Have NO Clue. I am not the judge. What do you think will happen?...................You Be the Judge..................

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Is incompetence rewarded? You Be The Judge..(Not about Mr. Trump,) (Original Post) Stuart G Jan 2020 OP

power is rewarded Locrian Jan 2020 #1

Thank You for quoting Warren Buffet, "There's class warfare and my class is winning" Stuart G Jan 2020 #2

thanks for the full quote Locrian Jan 2020 #3

Locrian

(4,522 posts)

1. power is rewarded

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Sun Jan 12, 2020, 01:20 PM

Jan 2020

A CEO etc should never be paid that much regardless of their "performance" in the first place
NOBODY works 1,000,000 times "harder" and/or can justified being paid as much. Unless they've rigged the system and created the "club".

We've created bunch of classes (yes, I include some performers etc too) of jobs that are pure license to hoard money, extract and concentrate it from the rest of us. An "all or nothing" type of mentality.

As I believe Warren Buffet said: "There's class warfare and my class is winning"

Stuart G

(38,454 posts)

2. Thank You for quoting Warren Buffet, "There's class warfare and my class is winning"

Reply to Locrian (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 12, 2020, 01:27 PM

Jan 2020

...Outstanding quote..Thank You...complete quote,

from the Washington Post..
By Greg Sargent
September 30, 2011

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/theres-been-class-warfare-for-the-last-20-years-and-my-class-has-won/2011/03/03/gIQApaFbAL_blog.html
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"BUFFETT: Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won. We’re the ones that have gotten our tax rates reduced dramatically.

"If you look at the 400 highest taxpayers in the United States in 1992, the first year for figures, they averaged about $40 million of [income] per person. In the most recent year, they were $227 million per person — five for one. During that period, their taxes went down from 29 percent to 21 percent of income. So, if there’s class warfare, the rich class has won"

Locrian

(4,522 posts)

3. thanks for the full quote

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 12, 2020, 03:42 PM

Jan 2020

Yep - a well executed plan

Ever since Buckley v. Valeo it's really taken off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo+
Or course the wealthy have always had the tendency to want it all, and to believe they are entitled to both wealth and the "responsibility" to lord it over the rest.

Not to mention pet projects like rockets to mars, etc....

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