Is it slow for everyone

Not to make this a political debate but there certainly appears to be one party that has multiple faces leading the charge of “redistribution of wealth” from new taxes on the rich to more free government programs that sound great until the bill comes due.
I totally agree that you should be ashamed for your success but let’s be honest.....”you didn’t build that”.....LOL

 

Being a devils advocate now. I consider wealth to be like oxygen. A limited planet resource. You can't just grab it all for yourself and let others suffocate. Do you care if others suffocate?
Allow me to LOL too.

 

Well....if you choose not breath the air then you probably should have to live with the consequences. Why should I have to rescue you and be penalized just because I made the right choice while you didn’t?

 

I am sure the same were saying the barons and king of 18 century France before their heads were chopped off.
It is all I am saying...you can't just ignore the problem of social contrasts. That's historically proven that it never ended well. Period.

 

I am not asking rich people to be ashamed of their success.

I am not asking people to deny themselves profit.

What I am saying is that those who do not work for a living should not underbid those who do.

My company recently acquired an account. I was tasked with getting equipment into this "new business startup", which was a good deal for me. For three weeks I was doing 3,500 paid miles running empty trailers into this location, going home for a 34. For 5.5 days of work I was making $1,600, not bad, not great, just okay.

I was asked, and agreed, to be available for the first week we ran this account. I figured I would take one for the team, and then get running as normal. Turns out they ran me like a red headed step child for the first week. I've been averaging $1,700 a week, working 5 days a week since December 1. After the first week I found out what we were paying the other drivers. Guys running the account have been making $1,000 a week for two months, and $1,100 for the last two weeks. When we started this account we paid our yard jockeys $15.30 an hour. I made a point of going in to talk to our division manager and complaining about their pay. My words were "whoever bid this account with this level driver pay should be fired for violating our core values". That, and other's complaints, resulted in a 10% wage increase for road drivers and yard jockeys now start at $18.00 an hour, which in my opinion is still criminally low as on our "system" pay scale I make more than 30% more than the drivers assigned to the account doing the same work.

My company ran the numbers and figured that they could secure the account by underbidding the current account holder. The only way my company could actually turn a profit based on their bid is by screwing the drivers. Based on current SEC filings, my company has a 3.5% cap rate - a little more than half of what is considered "acceptable" by most MBA program models. My company can run this account at cost minus because of their "big stack" because fraction of a penny on the dollar still makes sense when the base rate is two comma money. If they paid every driver on the account at my rate (and yard jockey's at an equivalent) they would lose money. Yet we made the bid, despite the fact that we were going to be screwing the run of the mill employee.

Think of it this way. You sit down at a Texas hold em no limit table with 5 players. 3 players have $10,000, 1 player has $100,000 and one player has $1,000,000 in chips. After 10 hours of play, who has the most money? It doesn't matter the skill of the players, the guy with the big stack is going to win.

Now change the rules so that after the initial deal the player with the largest stack gets to choose the wild card. Who do you think is going to win now?

The Big Stack at the table is going to be sitting pretty while the small stacks are getting screwed with this pants on, but as this is the only game in town they will take what is given and be happy about it.

Or in other words

 

Please tell me what to read.

 

I get it all. It is pure logic and there is no argument with that.
I am saying...
Historically, the consequence of drastic social contrasts when people, let's say, who become really deadly destitute and ...hungry always led to an inevitable discontent. Often resulting in bloodshed. Whenever it came to that nobody cared about deserves and fair. No logic applied. We don't want that.

OK. That's just pure hypothetical talk. We're not there yet at all. There is not even any semblance of it. So we're clear.

 

The Bridge Builder
By Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”

 

I probably understand more of what you are saying that I am leading on to but again we all make our own beds and should have lay in those same beds.

 

You're obviously good at googling, give it a try