http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html Professional athletics is a curious meritocracy where performing some inane activity in the top fractional percentile can result in income statements that are the envy of several NASDAQ firms. Last December, news hit that Tiger Woods was going to put 4... en Marty Fri, 12 May 2006 21:08:30 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html#comment1147468110073 Hmmm... yes, I believe it is our duty to keep money flowing. Saving it in a box behind the couch doesn't help the economy. We could do as well as the govenment does if we would arrange for planes to fly over the country and drop the money. Of course, some would want to stay home on the couch and try to hire others to pick up the money for them. That would be interesting. I think Mr. Woods should do as he sees fit with his money. I expect the same right. Tom http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html#comments http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html#comment1147468110073 Fri, 12 May 2006 21:08:30 GMT http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html#comment1142868553790 I'd say the same thing you did about Mr. Woods and take it a little bit further: the outrage and indignation over the compensation paid to corporate CEOs should similarly be off the table for discussion. Whose business is it what the Chairman of GM gets paid? His, and the people who hired him. Whose business is it how much the executives at Delphi get paid? Theirs, and the people who hired them. Not ours! After all, it is every employee's perogative to negotiate the best deal for himself that he can when he agrees to take an offer of employment. Somehow, we find it objectionable that there are people who make large salaries because their skills happen to be rare and in high demand. This is little more than class envy, in my opinion. So the next time you hear somebody say "those CEOs are overpaid" step in and remind them that it is their own fault if they didn't negotiate a better paycheck for themselves when they accepted their current job. And if they tell you that they've risen as high as they can in their field and cannot make more, remind them that they can always retrain themselves to do something that's more in demand. Geoff http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html#comments http://creepinglunacy.com/2006/03/12/1142221271252.html#comment1142868553790 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:29:13 GMT