by Petrolheadia » Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:45 pm
by The Black Forrest » Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:54 pm
by Petrolheadia » Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:55 pm
The Black Forrest wrote:Compensation is not always about being exceptional. Hell there was the homedepot ceo has was fired and walked away with 210 million.
by Abarri » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:02 pm
by North Curbstompia » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:07 pm
by The Black Forrest » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:09 pm
Petrolheadia wrote:The Black Forrest wrote:Compensation is not always about being exceptional. Hell there was the homedepot ceo has was fired and walked away with 210 million.
These people are often given guaranteed payouts, because otherwise, who would come and run a failing company if they can get a steady income from a good one?
by VoVoDoCo » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:10 pm
by The Black Forrest » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:12 pm
Vovodoco wrote:I'm don't see anything wrong with luxary goods. I suppose we're just suppose to leave diamonds in the ground? Outlaw autographed t-shirts?
by Ohioan Territory » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:12 pm
by Sicaris » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:12 pm
Vovodoco wrote:I'm don't see anything wrong with luxary goods. I suppose we're just suppose to leave diamonds in the ground? Outlaw autographed t-shirts?
by Zakuvia » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:12 pm
by The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:15 pm
by The Black Forrest » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:18 pm
by New Emeline » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:20 pm
by Dagnia » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:21 pm
by Underdark Cave » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:40 pm
Ohioan Territory wrote:If people are willing to put their resources into creating luxury goods, and if others are willing to voluntarily give up their money for said goods, I don't see a problem with luxury goods existing. It's not like they do any harm to anyone.
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by Jebslund » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:13 pm
Dagnia wrote:They should exist, but their wastefulness should be offset by something that does some good. I would have no problem with bringing back the luxury tax in the US, which we had for all things until 1993 and on luxury cars until 2002. I agree though that an outright ban on luxury goods would be a bad thing for everyone economically as well as a sign of a malignant mediocrity, who having no chance to rise in life, envies their social and intellectual betters.
A problem with even a tax on luxury goods is the definition of a luxury is different from person to person, and even if you were to take a poll on what most people consider a luxury changes depending on where they are and the times. Is it a feature? A brand name? Purely a dollar amount? My relatively new Honda has many features of a Mercedes from 20 years ago. Heated side mirrors were a feature that would have been unthinkable for me getting my first car, but are something I couldn't live without, especially when I was living in Buffalo. Luxuries eventually become commonplace things after a few years, generations, or centuries. Even condemning luxuries on this forum, you are doing it on devices that had initial costs of thousands and through services that would have gone for hundreds per month a generation ago, and now they are throw-away devices even the poorest can afford to drop in a toilet. Within our lifetimes, I suspect the poorest people (in the first world at least) will live in the tacky McMansions currently owned by yuppies and they'll think they're getting a raw deal.
by Internationalist Bastard » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:19 pm
by Farnhamia » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:20 pm
Internationalist Bastard wrote:If necessities are what keep us alive, luxuries are what make life livable
by The Knockout Gun Gals » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:27 pm
by Underdark Cave » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:29 pm
The Knockout Gun Gals wrote:We all know luxury goods exist as a capitalist tool to satisfy population while they greedily take the money off the populace.
by Bombadil » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:42 pm
by Underdark Cave » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:52 pm
Bombadil wrote:Underdark Cave wrote:
What would you use money for if there were no luxury items?
Yuh.. like I can't imagine..
Rather than strictly ban luxury goods i do have to question the inordinate amount of money spent on relatively pointless things.. the entire make up world is a decent example, $600 for some rose scented mayonnaise that promises to rejuvenate and lighten the skin..
..but beyond that, glacier water from the foothills of K2, don't even get me started on accessories for pets.. I mean a lot of this is mere peacockery.. a need to display, the fact that it's not enough to just have money, one must let everyone else know you have this money to ensure they know you're better than them..
..what would you use money for, maybe the realisation that the majority of success is circumstance and luck. You could help relieve debt for people, perhaps provide housing rather than have those 15 empty houses.. there's a million things one could do with money rather than buy a fake sense of self worth.
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