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Well Roark, I have to admit that I am kind of envious of anyone who makes more than five hundred million dollars a year. Greed is a pretty common human trait. However I like to hope that most people limit their greed to where it stops short of harming innocent people.
A lot of these people whom you think deserve these outrageous salaries are causing hard times that will last for generations for hundreds, probably thousands, of families. Unscrupulous CEOs improve their bottom lines by raiding employees’ pensions, or by downsizing longtime employees, or by cutting benefits.
These workers have to change plans for retirement, or for their kids’ education, or for medical treatment. While they find their life plans ripped to shreds, the CEOs pick up a nice enough bonus at the end of the year to buy a pretty little chalet in the Rockies. The employees’ children often must forego college, passing disadvantages down through god knows how many generations. The offspring of the CEOs are born rich. They will have advantages throughout their lives that they believe are due to them.
As for the Gordon Gekkos of the world, they are skewing the wage dynamic of the workplace. You say that they are valued for what they bring to the marketplace. What a joke! They shuffle papers and juggle numbers. They’re gamblers. They produce nothing of value to society. How can you actually believe they deserve those stupendous salaries? These people make more money before noon than teachers earn in eight years. According to your value system, teachers don’t bring much value to the marketplace. They are as dirt beneath the feet of the arbitrageur.
I want to escape the culture that lionizes the most greedy among us. I want to live with people who are socially responsible, as are the Ticos. That’s how I define socialism. I guess that makes me a member of the heard (sic) that the libertarians on this forum despise. I’m just a contented cow.
Finally, I still don’t understand why libertarians are so taken with Costa Rica. There are a lot of beautiful countries that are not as socialist as this tiny land. Why do you mavericks want to spend your golden years among a people whose culture is an antithesis to all the values you espouse on this forum? Maybe you’re just lonely?
Viva Costa Rica y la vida pura!
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