Is classism the new racism?

jasonInNy
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:19:11 +0000

When controlled for variables, the CEO’s true earning potential can be determined. Economic-Statistic tools have been implemented like this before. The problem with your argument is that if you fire the CEO, you company loses $70 million a year. If you fire the mid level manager, you lose marginal amounts of money. You’d have to fire many many many worker bee’s to equal the effect of firing the CEO. Thus, the CEO is worth more to society.

“What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others.”

So you are saying that if others treat me badly, i have a blank check to slug them on the face? They clearly “wish [that] done to [themselves].”

@Ellebud. Thank you. That’s my point. Being in the upper class is a membership, not some quality. Rich people are exactly that, PEOPLE with money. They can do whatever they want (so can poor people and the bourgeosie); they can kick puppy dogs; they can beat their kids; they can raid corporations. But in the end, they are still upper class (lower class, or middle class).