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Originally Posted by Graham Hartley
As if serious, I'll try pressing on. The 'something else' approach involves all who contribute to a common good receiving the same financial reward. I worked in the eighties in Wales for an organisation with some four hundred employees. It was proposed that we should all receive the same for our efforts. Arithmetic was done, and presented. The proposal was ultimately rejected by a majority who would lose the most.
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So if we were to adopt this, Footballers would be paid the same as Nurses.
Heart Surgeons would be paid the same as a Road Sweeper.
Airline Pilots would be paid the same as Bus Drivers.
I do believe the former USSR tried that, it failed.
You see the problem with ypur arguement Graham is quite simple, I studied for several years, spent tens of thousands of pounds to become a pilot. Twice a year I have the oportunity of losing my license by testing and a stringent medical. If i make a mistake 200 peopke will die.
If we were all paid the same, why would anyone strive to achive?