Socialists imagine a class struggle. In their made-up fantasy the CEO is in competition with low level workers, the wealthy entrepreneur is stealing from the underpaid nurse.
In reality, workers do not compete vertically they compete horizontally.
Entrepreneurs compete with entrepreneurs. Investors outbid each other. CEOs are benchmarked against other CEOs. Nurses are hired from a pool of nurses. Etc.
The CEOs pay has no correlation to the entry level workers. The Football star on £300K a week isn’t linked to the person selling drinks in the stadium. A biotech entrepreneur raising VC capital isn’t paid relative to a cleaner.
What is linked is the demand and supply dynamic of each role.
If a company places an ad for a qualified truck driver and 150 people apply for the role, then the company knows it does not need to increase wages for that role. If the company has an open role for months, it is forced to look at the compensation package.
Same for a CEO. A board representing shareholders would like to hire a CEO for a lot less if they could. Their dream scenario would be to hire a CEO who brings in institutional investors, attracts top executives, drives innovation and growth, keeps margins steady and is a good public face for the business even under pressure. It turns out there aren’t a lot of these people looking for work and if you want one you have to pay more than other companies are offering.
The class struggle isn’t vertical it’s horizontal. CEOs are in competition with CEOs. Retail workers are in competition with retail workers. Demand and supply dynamics set the price.
Sure you can say that a CEO want’s profitability and would like wages to be lower BUT it’s not up to the CEO - demand and supply tension sets the price of workers. An Airline like RyanAir would like free pilots if they could get them but they can’t… so they pay the market rate.
The reason incomes are rising at the top and falling at the bottom is not class warfare. It’s technology and globalisation.
Technology makes basic jobs simple, remote or fully automated. At the same time tech makes executive roles more leveraged, more important and more valuable.
A CEO used to run a smaller organisation. Today a CEO who’s 2% better on a $5B company is generating $100M more. Seems sensible to try and pay a few million to get $100M.
Globalisation has put workers from all over the world in completion with each other - downward pressure on wages. Globalisation has given CEOs more market opportunities to explore - upside opportunity to unlock.
The rich are not very interested in buying houses that poor people own. The poor are not buying up the homes the rich want. They are separate groups living separate lives. Try finding the genuinely rich people whose strategy is to hoard normal residential homes - it barely exists as a thing. About 85% of landlords are people who own 1-4 properties. Super-landlords (100+ properties) are 0.2% of landlords and own a tiny fraction of the 30M homes in the UK… and they’re heavily taxed.
Class warfare isn’t real. It’s an imagined war in the minds of socialists.
Demand and supply dynamics are real. To the degree it is measured in class, it’s a horizontal competition not a vertical one.
People don't realize what actually happens when the illegal population is gone.
Suddenly Americans start getting real raises again.
Hospitals stop drowning in overcrowded ERs.
Schools breathe — class sizes finally return to something sane.
Insurance bills drop instead of climbing every year.
Young families can actually buy homes.
Grocery prices level out because the welfare load isn't crushing the system anymore.
DMV lines move.
Traffic lightens.
Neighborhoods calm down.
Crime stats shift in the right direction for the first time in decades.
Organ transplant lists move faster.
Teenagers get the jobs they used to get before cheap illegal labor replaced them.
Trade programs fill with American kids who can actually earn a living again.
And people start having families because the cost of living isn't strangling them.
You remove the illegal burden, and the country snaps back into shape almost overnight.
Get them the f out!
What does it matter what you think you is wise? I get that you think it’s weird. I don’t. You have bare-bone context. You don’t even know the security guards’ names. I get that the human brain is designed to seek patterns to make sense of things but neither of us have enough information to form and worthwhile conclusions. I gave you very plausible reasoning for why security teams would communicate and share information about threats. You’re free to draw your own conclusion but baselessly speculating is a waste of time. People do “weird” things all the time. What’s weird to you can be perfectly normal to others.
Uhh is it possible Ben’s security team members could be friendly with Charlie’s? Is it possible that security teams stay in contact and share information considering they’re both conservative commentators and receive threats from the same types of people?
It’s much less farfetched than just assuming a negative conspiracy. Conspiracies are way easier to form. But genuinely, do you think as shrewd as Ben is he’d offer information if he was somehow involved 🙄.No. These commentators might disagree on issues but they aren’t trying to kill each other or wishing harm on one another.
@Tut62992292@LasgunSunflower I routinely watch videos of people giving index cards to random young people and asking them to read them. More money is not the solution to the fact that these kids are fundamentally retarded.