Whatever.
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From: "Terrible Tom" <silvereightynine@aol.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Made in China
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> Tom Byrne wrote:
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>> The CEO is worth what the stupid board and shareholders will pay him.That
>> being said, employees don't generate profits. Investors taking risk with
>> their money to buy shares and bonds to give companies capital to start
>> and expand businesses generate profits. Decision makers generate profits.
>> Skilled workers and engineers generate profits. Workers, laborers, are
>> tools which need to be paid for to produce a product or service. They are
>> overhead. It is not about who works the hardest, but who works the
>> smartest. They harder it is to find someone to do the job, they more they
>> get paid. I work for Citigroup. I get paid more than the janitors, but
>> not as much as the quant guys with advanced degrees. The janitors work
>> harder than I do. Should they be paid anything approaching my level? Hell
>> no. It is easy to get janitors. Should I be paid what the a quant trader?
>> Hell no. The get paid three or four times what I do and that is fine. I
>> could not do their jobs. Most people could not so they deserve $500,000
>> or $600,000 per year.
>>
>>
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> you missed my point
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> whatever...
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> this is why I hate talking about this stuff...
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