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Economy See other Economy Articles Title: Doug Smith: The Maximum Wage
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Naked Capitalism
URL Source: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011 ... ug-smith-the-maximum-wage.html
Published: Jul 12, 2011
Author: Doug Smith
Post Date: 2011-07-12 10:54:37 by lucysmom
Keywords: None Views: 20069
Comments: 35
We face severe and growing income inequality with negative effects on people and the economy. Yet, no surprise, the ‘can’t do’ right wing continues a scorched earth campaign against the minimum wage. These self-promoting haters actually prefer no wages and indentured servitude – for example using prisoners to replace employees and cheerfully promoting ‘internships’ for the unemployed. They glory in income inequality and wish it to expand instead of contract. Enough of that. They are destroyers of the American Dream. But people who seek to shrink income inequality — to insure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all and not just some — must now focus as much on the maximum wage as the minimum wage. snip For those, however, receiving bailouts, deposit insurance, government guarantees, tax breaks, tax credits, other forms of public financing, government contracts of any sort – and so on – the top paid person cannot receive more than twenty-five times the bottom paid person. This ratio, by the way, is what business visionary Peter Drucker recommended as most effective for organization performance as well as society. It also echoes Jim Collins who, in his book Good To Great, found that the most effective top leaders are paid more modestly than unsuccessful ones. And, critically, it is a ratio that is in line with various European and other nations that have dramatically lower income inequality than the United States. Click for Full Text!
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#1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0)
On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We In An Age Of Me
#2. To: lucysmom (#1)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
The minimum and maximum wage should be shoved up some liberals ass until it bleeds. Thank you for your well reasoned and thoughtful reply.
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#8. To: A K A Stone (#5)
No one has the right to tell someone that there is a maximum they can earn. Anyone supporting such a notion should be shot. And yet it's done all the time.
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