:) There is a show on tonight saying that if your in the 1% of the highearners in Britain you could be earining a £15 billion increase (not just you :lol: ) and if your in the other 99% then you could be paying more out anyone anymore info i am a bit vague on this, but i think it needs to be brought up.

i think its obscene... im totally un-materialistic, i cannot fathom WHY people should earn/waste so much money, live in such opulence.. im very comfortable would i be any happier with several billion?... no.

 

moraly i couldnt have that much money... id have to give it away.

its like winning the lottery jackpot once a year, once is enough for most people. But greed craves more money, and so the cycle continues.

Joins in well with the David Beckham's wages thread.

He earns (or rather going to earn) £492,000 per week.

It's not really his fault that people offer him that is it.

 

I don't really know the solution without major financial re-structuing of world.

I'm sure he does deserve to be well paid :unsure: but frankly I find that an obscene amount of money he'll be earning. How can anyone need that much?

charity.... anyone only needs so much, the rest is surplus..

Joins in well with the David Beckham's wages thread.

He earns (or rather going to earn) £492,000 per week.

It's not really his fault that people offer him that is it.

 

I don't really know the solution without major financial re-structuing of world.

 

 

Quick calculation...

 

that leads to £48.81 every MINUTE (not just working but every minute he is alive of every hour of every day).

 

That's practically nothing compared to many corporate CEO's. In 2005, Terry S. Semel, the CEO of Yahoo!, made $230,600,000. That comes down to $437.59 every MINUTE of 2005.

 

And THEN you consider the people who are worth billions. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owns over $500 million in yachts alone. In YACHTS.

 

UNREAL.

Quick calculation...

 

that leads to £48.81 every MINUTE (not just working but every minute he is alive of every hour of every day).

 

That's practically nothing compared to many corporate CEO's. In 2005, Terry S. Semel, the CEO of Yahoo!, made $230,600,000. That comes down to $437.59 every MINUTE of 2005.

 

And THEN you consider the people who are worth billions. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owns over $500 million in yachts alone. In YACHTS.

 

UNREAL.

 

Yeah, that is a good point actually, we focus too much on the likes of Beckham and film stars and totally forget the real greedy t/ossers out there.... At least Beckham has at least made his money in a rather less exploitative fashion... He's a footballer, ultimately, he earns his money from the clubs he plays for and sponsorship deals (he takes money from large Corporations...), Corporate CEOs 'earn' their money from exploiting the workers of the world.... Significantly less honourable... Beckham has a talent for playing a sport, what are the 'talents' of a CEO...? Being a total b/astard...??