Rewarding success?

Tony at Storyteller’s World has some thoughts on “the nettle of the super-rich, and … the growing inequalities in enjoyment of the nation’s wealth.“

The failure of any of the political parties to propose higher rates of tax for the super-rich, is allegedly because they are reluctant to “penalise success”. This is crap. And it will always be crap until a successful nurse or teacher or refuse collector or shop assistant has the same opportunities to “earn” ridiculous salaries as the million pound a year lawyers, footballers, entertainers and businessmen

Indeed. When did we, as a culture, start regarding “earning lots of money” as “success”? And has no one noticed that this is tautologous – someone is a success because they earn lots of money, and they earn lots of money because they’re a success?

pax et bonum

Article posted at 11:14pm on 13 June 2006
Category: Links, Politics, General

What’s interesting is the number of “performance related pay” schemes where it’s only senior managers who get the benefits, while it’s their underlings who do the work. Good, no? If I do a good job, it’s my boss – who may be a total waste of space – who reaps the reward.

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4:40pm on 24 June 2006