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Slava · 10-16-2011, 09:57 AM

I watched a bunch of the coverage and aside from the obvious issues (PETA, nationalize the banks people, signs like "no jail time for pot" etc.) I do understand the point to some extent. I do think that there is a growing gap between rich and poor and somehow that has to be managed....I have zero idea on how you do this, but a piece of me thinks its not something that should be managed.

Part of the problem here is a "grass is always greener" mentality. When I came out of school I really wanted to make $100k a year. The problems with society were the same at the time in the sense that the rich kept getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. Without getting into detail, when I passed the $100k/yr mark nothing really changed. It was nice and I suppose sort of rewarding because it was something I wanted to do. Otherwise life didn't suddenly get simple. I didn't magically have things figured out and problems I had when I made $50k a year were still problems at $100k a year.

I just point that out because I think its awfully easy to look at a guy making millions each month and think of how simple life would be. I get that if my bank account had an extra few million that somethings are easier, but not everything. I also think that there is a tendency for people to look purely at a guys wage and think that they have everything easy and handed to them. Maybe they were just lucky. Maybe....but most of the people I know who are in these positions took enormous risks to get there. They did and still do work really hard for their money. That doesn't mean that work for minimum wage is not hard work, I know first hand that it is. These positions that pay enormous sums of money though are full of large responsibility and significant duties.

I don't mean this to try to justify every CEO salary out there and say that every protestor has no idea what they're talking about. Its just that there are a lot of factors here and to just say "that guy makes more than $181k therefore he should share" isn't taking everything into account.

10-16-2011, 09:57 AM	#408
Slava Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Calgary, Alberta Exp:	I watched a bunch of the coverage and aside from the obvious issues (PETA, nationalize the banks people, signs like "no jail time for pot" etc.) I do understand the point to some extent. I do think that there is a growing gap between rich and poor and somehow that has to be managed....I have zero idea on how you do this, but a piece of me thinks its not something that should be managed. Part of the problem here is a "grass is always greener" mentality. When I came out of school I really wanted to make $100k a year. The problems with society were the same at the time in the sense that the rich kept getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. Without getting into detail, when I passed the $100k/yr mark nothing really changed. It was nice and I suppose sort of rewarding because it was something I wanted to do. Otherwise life didn't suddenly get simple. I didn't magically have things figured out and problems I had when I made $50k a year were still problems at $100k a year. I just point that out because I think its awfully easy to look at a guy making millions each month and think of how simple life would be. I get that if my bank account had an extra few million that somethings are easier, but not everything. I also think that there is a tendency for people to look purely at a guys wage and think that they have everything easy and handed to them. Maybe they were just lucky. Maybe....but most of the people I know who are in these positions took enormous risks to get there. They did and still do work really hard for their money. That doesn't mean that work for minimum wage is not hard work, I know first hand that it is. These positions that pay enormous sums of money though are full of large responsibility and significant duties. I don't mean this to try to justify every CEO salary out there and say that every protestor has no idea what they're talking about. Its just that there are a lot of factors here and to just say "that guy makes more than $181k therefore he should share" isn't taking everything into account.