Justin, with all due respect, I think you're being hopelessly naive in thinking that the recipients of this handout will give it to their employees. Wall Street would go ballistic and demand the head on a platter of any manager foolish enough to give his employees a penny more than he has to. Investors go into raptures over layoffs, not pay raises. In any case, since taxes come from profit and reduce dividends, the stockholders firmly believe that that money is theirs, not the workers who produced the profit in the first place. The sarcasm is intentional: Adam Smith pointed out that capital only produces profit by multiplying the productivity of labor. Capital by itself produces nothing, a lesson wholly lost on people who play the stock market in the modern style, as if it were a casino.
--Robert
Space/Science » in reply to Re: Careful, Tom, you're gonna sprain that knee
Re: Careful, Tom, you're gonna sprain that knee
The whole thread (43 posts)
- Bush wants to axe both Pluto and Europa missions
- Sounds like years of bad NASA management are coming back to haught them
- Re: Bush wants to axe both Pluto and Europa missions
- We're lucky we're getting as much done in space as we are.
- What's particularly outrageous and aggravating...
- Speaking of outrageous...
- Careful, Tom, you're gonna sprain that knee
- My knee is well-conditioned, thanks.
- Re: Careful, Tom, you're gonna sprain that knee
- Careful, Tom, you're gonna sprain that knee
- Speaking of outrageous...