Not a direct answer but I have always believed in and hope to see someday...not that I expect to see it but...

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need"

That will never work...the Pilgrims almost died their first year because they all had to share their profits. William Bradford broke the conditions of their contract and stated that each person had to help pay their sponsors, but anything over that they could keep for themselves. Those who the previous year had faked illnesses or done poorly at their jobs worked as hard as anyone. That year they had so much success that they had a celebration, which we now call Thanksgiving. That's the real story of Thanksgiving as recorded in the diaries of those involved.

Self interest is a driving factor in human behavior. If you can work 12 hours a day and give your children a better life, you just might. If your children won't benefit from your labors, but your lazy neighbor will, you are far less likely to work hard.

Karl Marx ?

How odd! His models haven't done well.

Israel seems to be working pretty well using that model.

It does'nt matter who should get paid the most. The person or people paying them are the ones dictating the figures.

We are a demand for service type society. Everyone of us should know this already. When there are cases of the government regulating how much people should be paid, often times those people will be undervalued. Don't want to be an underpaid teacher? Then don't work for public schools.

The only exceptions to this are the unjust Prevailing Wage laws which require employees to be paid much more than they would if they were part of a union.

Would you have a problem paying people $47.64 an hour to paint and business taxes mandatory with their wage as well as paying roughly $3,000.00 a month in required insurance payments?

You're thinking 'show me where to sign up' right?

Bottom line is if you want to have a say in who should get paid what, it has been proven that you need alot of money and a politician or two in your corner or your pocket.


Trying to justify how much athletes or entertainers make is just so incredibily silly, yet people refer to it as if they somehow have a say in it or it is their money.

Single parents should get paid more? Why? We stopped welfare years ago. Everybody able has to work for money. I respect people raising their kids alone, but I'm not paying a person more or less based on the personal decisions they've made in their lives.

Israel has a free market economy, the ruling party hasn't completely ripped that out and replaced it with communism.

That was sloppy of me. Israel's Kibbutz system runs on a more-or-less communistic system

Cupid.
So it works the first time, every time.

**** takers...

I think those boys that clean those porta pottys should make a little more..........

hahahahahaha

maybe not the highest paid but I truly believe that Barbers and Hairstylists should get paid more...at least here in Oregon...I also wish they would put a cap on it as it has become so oversaturated..I paid more for a cut and style in the 70's than what I would today if i was a consumer...that is not including the few exceptions.