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Originally Posted by Loachflava View Post
Some jobs obviously have a higher risk then others. i use to work for a accident compensation company and most of the injury's in there were sports related.

anyway i don't see why sports star should be getting less pay there is so much money in the market for entertainment and if you got the talent why not i mean if you were in there shoes i couldn't see any of you complaining about it

That's injuries of course they have more injuries, it's a sport after all. But that doesn't mean it has more deaths. The only sport where death is really a common thing is in racing.
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Originally Posted by Deprived View Post
But the question is how large the salary is - I don't think anyone here doubts that athletes deserve compensation for their work.

That's why I believe in a progressive income tax. If they make ten million dollars a year, the state should get a very large chunk of it (how much is open to debate and I'm not going there). I wouldn't be making the case for forcing sporting enterprises to cap salaries, but I do think they should pay higher taxes for their salary than people who aren't as well off. But this is a complicated issue, and my brain is mushy right now.
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Originally Posted by SmileyJones View Post
That's why I believe in a progressive income tax. If they make ten million dollars a year, the state should get a very large chunk of it (how much is open to debate and I'm not going there). I wouldn't be making the case for forcing sporting enterprises to cap salaries, but I do think they should pay higher taxes for their salary than people who aren't as well off. But this is a complicated issue, and my brain is mushy right now.

That would mean you would be working more to get less of what you deserve. The current system of a set percentage is better.
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I think they should be paid for what they do because they're entertaining and good at what they do, but I must admit they do get over paid.
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Originally Posted by footside View Post
That would mean you would be working more to get less of what you deserve. The current system of a set percentage is better.

Because athletes do more work than most factory workers who almost literally break their backs every day. Same thing with those CEOs, no? Fact: working more does not equate more money earned in the free market. In fact, most commonly, the more money you get, the more likely it is that you rarely do any work at all. I wonder how much work Bill Gates did in the last decade...

Originally Posted by sexywittsy View Post
I think they should be paid for what they do because they're entertaining and good at what they do, but I must admit they do get over paid.

Of course, entertainment is a business that is needed in any society, capitalistic or otherwise, and of course people who work, even in entertainment and in the service area must be paid. What I want to know is how much they should be paid.

Originally Posted by SmileyJones View Post
That's why I believe in a progressive income tax. If they make ten million dollars a year, the state should get a very large chunk of it (how much is open to debate and I'm not going there). I wouldn't be making the case for forcing sporting enterprises to cap salaries, but I do think they should pay higher taxes for their salary than people who aren't as well off. But this is a complicated issue, and my brain is mushy right now.

Hmm I really can't see how from the fact that everyone deserves pay for their work leads to a progressive tax. whatever ;p
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Originally Posted by Deprived View Post
Because athletes do more work than most factory workers who almost literally break their backs every day. Same thing with those CEOs, no? Fact: working more does not equate more money earned in the free market. In fact, most commonly, the more money you get, the more likely it is that you rarely do any work at all. I wonder how much work Bill Gates did in the last decade...



Of course, entertainment is a business that is needed in any society, capitalistic or otherwise, and of course people who work, even in entertainment and in the service area must be paid. What I want to know is how much they should be paid.



Hmm I really can't see how from the fact that everyone deserves pay for their work leads to a progressive tax. whatever ;p

How about make a large technological breakthrough that could greatly impact the future?
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Originally Posted by footside View Post
How about make a large technological breakthrough that could greatly impact the future?

Bill gates invented it? Or was it one of the workers under him that did it and he took the credit for it because he was the employer?

tbh I have no idea what you're talking about, if you mean windows, that was more than a decade ago, and I'm pretty sure the software is a tad overpriced, no?
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Originally Posted by footside View Post
That would mean you would be working more to get less of what you deserve. The current system of a set percentage is better.

But you would still be earning more than you did if you didn't work. I'm going to pull numbers out of my ass now, I didn't get them from anywhere, but I'm just trying to provide an example for my reasoning.

You make $50,000. The government takes 20% in takes, your grand total is $40,000.

You make $500,000. The government takes 40% in taxes, your grand total is $300,000.

In this scenario, which career would you choose? I'm sure not many people would accept a significantly lower salary simply because they'll pay less taxes.
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Originally Posted by Deprived View Post
Bill gates invented it? Or was it one of the workers under him that did it and he took the credit for it because he was the employer?

tbh I have no idea what you're talking about, if you mean windows, that was more than a decade ago, and I'm pretty sure the software is a tad overpriced, no?

You should do more research before you post like that. Bill Gates didn't have any workers for him. He was in college. All he had was a business partner. Yeah, Bill Gates is an executive but he is also smart when it comes to technology.

What does it being a decade old got to do with it? Same with it being overpriced. Computers are a booming business. When you only have one major competitor it's hard not to overprice. It's called profit. Thats why he's so rich.
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Originally Posted by footside View Post
What does it being a decade old got to do with it? Same with it being overpriced. Computers are a booming business. When you only have one major competitor it's hard not to overprice. It's called profit. Thats why he's so rich.

The point being he hasn't done anything for the last decade and yet he's one of the richest people in the world, and besides my rhetorical question was;

I wonder how much work Bill Gates did in the last decade...

By the way, you don't think it's simply... obnoxious how you can make money simply because of "cleverly" manipulating prices? "Profit"? That antibiotics aren't produced because the medical companies wouldn't profit from them? That Microsoft would have a monopoly and overprice their products and become super rich without doing that much work?

Besides, Turing for example, made far, far, far more important technological advancements than Bill Gates ever did - yet you don't see him being nearly as rich as Bill Gates.
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