• Alperto@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    while I agree with you with the point, I don’t totally do:

    Yes, most of rich people come from rich families (there’re actually studies showing how much easier it is for the relatives of wealthy people to become wealthy too than to normal people).

    No, not all the rich people work two 2 hours a day. Specially self made ones, work most of their time (workaholics) but not hard in a physical way, but on a mental way (meetings, discussions, numbers, etc).

    I’m not defending them, I’m just trying to be more realistic. And actually I agree with this OP and with your point that they don’t deserve that much. They may deserve to earn more than the others as he/she is the potential founder and responsible for the company success (I’m thinking more about the self made rich example), but the differences in salaries shouldn’t be that HUGE between the CEO and the janitors.

    Norway is a country where salary differences is less huge than in other countries, and rich people really pay more taxes than low income people. That’s why people doing not really skilled jobs can afford iphones, teslas and traveling abroad every summer. And that’s the kind of goal we all should ask for.

    • EcchiSukecchi@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      There’s a difference between “rich” and “wealthy”; the wealthy hope you never recognize that and that you continue to think wealth is the same as simply rich. Just being “rich” one might have legitimately worked their and off to get there; wealth is generational. Wealthy had a “rich” relative who initiated the means to further invest and work less.

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      1 year ago

      Regardless of how many hours a billionaire works, their labor is not worth the millions they make. That money comes from the surplus of value all their employees are making by actually working.