Highly paid people do they deserve it?

Kipperhell · 26-06-2008 07:36PM #1

There is a lot of talk about high powered people getting paid a lot of money. I am just wondering how people feel about it here. Lets not include actors and sports people as that is a very particular group. Focus on people that just through their normal work became very well paid. So inheritance of a company or assets is out too. So you have people who through their own work became highly paid.

So do people really deserve 6 million a year or even say 120k a year? Is there work that much harder than yours? Do you think you work harder for less?

callaway92 · 26-06-2008 07:41PM

It depends on what job they have,..If they do a lot of work and get paid a lot..They deserve it ..Thats my €0.02

Sam Vimes · 26-06-2008 07:44PM

mama always said, there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showin off

galwayrush · 26-06-2008 07:45PM

I am one of them

Some deserve it, others make such a cock up of what they do but are still rewarded for it, eg, Health.They should be sacked and be forced to give back all their earnings .:pac: In many other countries they would be either in prison or shot.:D

Epic Tissue · 26-06-2008 07:46PM

I am one of them

poll options are ****e

Abi · 26-06-2008 07:52PM

I am one of them

Sam Vimes wrote: »

mama always said, there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showin off

+1 tbh.

Enough is all you need. Too little makes you bitter, too much makes you a prick.

phantom_lord · 26-06-2008 08:11PM

you're just gonna get a bunch of poor begrudgers moaning in this thread op.

Sherifu · 26-06-2008 08:14PM

Yes.

Sam Vimes · 26-06-2008 08:14PM

Abigayle wrote: »

+1 tbh.

Enough is all you need. Too little makes you bitter, too much makes you a prick.

indeed. The wisdom of forrest gump

brianthebard · 26-06-2008 08:15PM

i find it very hard to imagine there is anyone working in this country that deserves over 100, maybe 150k,including (no especially!) politicans.

dotsman · 26-06-2008 08:19PM

No, I work just as hard

I voted yes on the grounds that they are very good at a job very few people can do and their job contributes a lot to their company/society.

Obviously, if they're not very good at what they do, or doing a job that most people can do (except there's a temporary shortage of competition or increase of demand), or their job is a redundant civil service job that adds nothing but bureaucracy, then they deserve sfa.

Holsten · 26-06-2008 08:26PM

Footballers - no
Doctors - yes
Actors - no
etc....

zuutroy · 26-06-2008 08:32PM

THe simple fact is they are worth more to their employers than the wages they get paid. Mad as it seems, the Yankees are paying Alex Rodriguez $300M over the next 10 years, but his value in terms of TV and merchandise far exceeds this, so in a bizarre way they do deserve it.

Wertz · 26-06-2008 08:32PM

Bloody communists...

Einstein · 26-06-2008 08:38PM

Atari Jaguar FTW

Cokehead Mother · 26-06-2008 09:00PM

I think that people working in the private sector deserve exactly what they're paid.

stepbar · 26-06-2008 09:06PM

I am one of them

The CEO's of our retail banks don't that's for sure.

watsgone · 26-06-2008 09:15PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Some deserve it, others make such a cock up of what they do but are still rewarded for it, eg, Health.They should be sacked and be forced to give back all their earnings .:pac: In many other countries they would be either in prison or shot.:D

Ditto that remark

chopperbyrne · 26-06-2008 09:17PM

How much was Harney getting paid every year?

Certainly enough to keep herself well fed!

26-06-2008 10:28PM

Read once that shortly after birth the infant Ralph Waldo Herst was making $55,000 USD a month off his investment portfolio. I bet that baby was making wise investment decisions!

Terry · 26-06-2008 10:46PM

I am considerably richer than yew.

taidghbaby · 26-06-2008 10:53PM

i do....end of :cool:

kowloon · 27-06-2008 12:20AM

The CEO of the last company I worked for got a 6.2 million bonus for company performance.
I got maybe 2 grand before tax, half a dozen free lunches and a free piss-up.
The Polish and other foreign workers got nothing, were charged more for their lunches and were generally laid off to avoid giving them a proper contract.

red_ice · 27-06-2008 01:06AM

I am one of them

Your missing the 'i work a million times harder' post. Sure its my job to do so. But when certain people abuse the system.. such as the HSC in such a way that it sucks up a departments budget, forcing the department to downsize.

People were let go where i work because one of the higher level chaps would come in on a monday, 'work' till 11, then have to take tuesday off because oc health says so, come in tuesday night 'work' 6 till 3 am (watch movies and eat take out) and repeat this untill friday... which of course was a no show.

a 70k a year job becomes 140k a year and guess what.. he cant get fired.

So no, i dont think that people higher up should get more pay. I think the job should be paid based on merrit and how rooted they are in the company. If they do their job and put the work in, they deserve it.. otherwise if they sit on their fat arse and do nothing.. they dont.

EamonnKeane · 27-06-2008 01:08AM

It's not how much anyone deserves; labour is a commodity, and if yours is in high demand with a low supply (e.g. surgeon) it'll be valuable; if not, it won't be. Saying people don't deserve it is like saying gold shouldn't be worth more than air.

kowloon · 27-06-2008 01:16AM

EamonnKeane wrote: »

It's not how much anyone deserves; labour is a commodity, and if yours is in high demand with a low supply (e.g. surgeon) it'll be valuable; if not, it won't be. Saying people don't deserve it is like saying gold shouldn't be worth more than air.

i agree, but the post title was: "Highly paid people do they deserve it?"

27-06-2008 01:41AM

For some, the high pay comes from high responsibility..

example 1. a missed penalty can relegate his team, thus losing the team & sponsors etc millions in lost revenue.

example 2, a bad decision can make the difference between a company surviving or going bust and losing hundreds their jobs.

example 3 a surgeon "cuts it out" by mistake, the patient dies!

I've deliberately not mentioned politicians as they have a differend agenda than just money(disclaimer some just want the money- usually in brown enveolopes), it's power and influance that drive them.

It's also true that there are many that have responsibility that are not being sufficiently paid.

It's very subjective! (that would be an ecumenical matter!)

kowloon · 27-06-2008 02:37AM

The worst most of them have to fear is being fired. When you earn enough in a year to live comfortably for a lifetime the only motivation is greed.

Neamhshuntasach · 27-06-2008 09:29AM

No some people are paid ridiculous amounts of money.

Look at how much excess cash is sitting in people's accounts throughout the world that will never be used no matter how many generations it is passed on to. That just shows that people are paid much more than they can possibly ever spend.

To think of what could be done with that money for the more unfortunate people of this world.

Nichololas · 27-06-2008 09:35AM

Holsten wrote: »

Footballers - no
Doctors - yes
Actors - no
etc....

I agree, but I think we should pay doctors peanuts also. Just to keep them on their toes. /shakes fist

_feedback_ · 27-06-2008 09:37AM

Your poll is very generalised ..... Some deserve it, some don't. Simple as.

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