This is why companies do salary research and compare their employees pay to the market range from the survey.
You're the highest earner of all your peers-assuming you and your peers are all working the same jobs. There's no way you'll get an increase until and unless the market range for the salary goes up or your responsibilties change or you get promoted. All the money the department has, if any, would be going to those who make less to bring them up to your level. In my world, this means you need to start positioning yourself for a promotion.
"Is there any possible way to justify putting a cap on CEO pay?" No, this is an internal company issue.
"Should we be having this conversation or even be taking it seriously?" No
And we shouldn't have a minimum wage either.
That being said, Blase has some good points and CEO comp should not be about the stock price. In a rising market, even dogs can have their prices rise. Comp should be about performance. Measurable performance. The change needed is in the Board. It needs to be independent.
I think one of the worst legacies of Western colonialist is that smashing of tribal groups into nation states, excluding the colonialism itself ofc, in Africa and the Middle East. God what a mess.
It's beyond me how you can follow proceedures and still discharge a weapon in an unsafe manner unless the weapon malfunctioned. Baring that, it's user error, and even if all proceedures were followed because no one would possible write a proceedure covering the accidental discharge of a firearm, he should have been fired for negligence.
I recall after my marriage, my wife informed me that she was taking a day of vacation to go to the SS office and get all her name changed stuff worked out. I was rather surprised. We had never discussed her changing her name.
I've been actively tuning out all this stuff because all this reflection is mental masturbation. Americans believe in their exceptionalism. We're different, so we can "fix" the world’s problems. Sure, we'll bring democracy to Iraq and the "graveyard of empires" and we will do it right because we are Americans.
Right.
You'd think we'd learn, but that's the damned thing. We don't, or there is some other reason for our actions: oil, power, etc. I've concluded it's the latter
Make no apologies. I've been there, as I'm sure many have, and it does suck. Only thing worse is doing it alone. The only quibble I'd have is "What I already knew but needed a reminder of is that the ‘new’ economy is heartless." This heartlessness isn't new.
Good luck and remember to keep on thinking of the things that you do have. You're still better off than a whole lotta folks.
"The medical decisions and hospital visitations issue is an example of where simple private contracting would not work."
Pff. Create your marriage contract how you want, file it with the county/state/etc. clerk. Done. Spouse not availabe, that's handled in the "alternative POA" section. Dont' fill out the forms, revert to default postions x,y,z. Essentially what you're complaining about is institutional inertia. That's essentially "it would be hard so let's not do it". I call BS.
"Is this tax policy discriminatory..." ALL tax policy is discrimatory in some form or another. Solution-break the connections between "marriage" and tax policy. And yes, I recognize that 1) this is hard 2) no one wants their subsidy to go away, etc., but the arguement is pure and fair....
Anyway, each parent had this child and it deserves, and you are morally obligated, interation with each parent (baring abuse) to the maximum extent possible, and with as little snarky comments about the other parent. That means no moving out of town, out of the state, out of the country, if necessary.
You "own" this kid with the other parent for 18 years. Deal.
Not the divorce, the ex wife moving with her new guy to Iowa.
My ex and I never had kids, but her sister did. I try and stay as close to them as I can for this very reason. I valued them less when my ex and I were together because 1) i took them for granted and 2) they werern't interesting. Now that they are older, 18 and 14, they are more fun to be around. Of couse now, they have less interest in me....
In the interests of full disclosure and to tangent off BlaiseP, when are we Americans going to own up to our behavior in agitating for war, embargoing Japan, the disception at Pearl Harbor, and our refusal to accept Japan's conditional surrender? When are we going to admit that we need not drop two atom bombs on that country?
When are OUR war criminals going to be dug up and their monuments removed?
"So all along, when people protested to Caesar that he was making himself into a king, he could point to precedent and say he was doing nothing new, and nothing that the republic hadn’t been through before without losing its republican character. This seemed a transparent fiction to his critics. But for a legal culture steeped in and heavily reliant on precedent, it mattered a lot....."
This sums it up nicely: I'm just using the power that has been previously exercized. This is the problem. Once you allow someone an exception, it becomes the rule. The thinking that "it's ok, he's one of us" may be true but for sure, sooner or later, he won't be one of you, and you'll be on the receiving end. This is why the electorate will get it in the end...
So I answer your question "I wish someone could come up with a non-hippie answer for what they mean by a non-consumerist economy." and you give me crap for doing so?
Maybe you would have preferred me to use calculus and show some equations?
I don't fault anyone for doing anything they want to do. Hell, it's (ostensibly) a free country, and if someone wants to spend themselves into poverty, go them, but I thought we were talking about concepts to help "the poor" get out of poverty?
And to assuage your feelings that I'm a crotchety old miser, my sister in law would beg to differ, considering she got a bottle of 20 year old Pappy's for xmas.
I don't view going to the mall to go shopping as "entertainment".
If I need an item, I'll get it. I wear clothes until they wear out.
I keep my car for @ 10 years and don't cycle them every 3 years.
I don't buy unnecessary crap, like upgrading my IPOD everytime a new version comes out, same with my phone.
I don't spend large amounts of money for Xmas gifts and sure as hell don't go into debt to do so.
When I do buy stuff, I try to buy stuff that will last--clothes, cars, shoes, etc.
I'm "frugal", not cheap.
That kinda stuff. Something along those lines perhaps?
The problem I have with this, other than the shitty way they did it, was Towson wasn't on the same page about the reason.
"The process used by Towson to reach a decision has been marred by a lack of transparency and the dissemination of unreliable data..." and "Though Towson released a 22-page report explaining its decision Friday, it did so minutes before Loeschke held a telephone conference with reporters. She and other Towson officials were not available for further comment or to explain budget and roster-size projections that differed from information previously disseminated by the school."
This stinks. Get your PR together. So the conclusion to be drawn by lots of folks is the Title 9 reasons were BS, true on not. Nice move Towson.
Noah has some good points...they are a bit simplistic...
This is all anecdotal so... I've met folks who don't know what a budget is, how to track their spending or "know where all their money" went. I was also that person once too.
I also think that our society, as a whole, is very consumerist, and time oriented to spending vs. savings. That should change. That's how you accumulate wealth: not spending everything you have.
Where I think you're on point Ethan, is that of course, it's much easier for a guy making lots of income vs. the guy who isn't. I'd view that as obvious, and I think there are some ways to work on that. Generally income increases with education/training and better "life choices". I think it's really those "life choices" that are the real bitch and where improvements could be made in people's situations. The problem is, of course, how to get people to make better choices.
Frankly, I don't trust bureaucrats anyway. I understand that their ostensible purpose is not the same as their real purpose--perpetuating the bureaucracy.
That being said, it's one thing for an administrator to say "school starts at 8am" and another to say "you can't have chocolate milk at lunch" because WE think your kid doesn't need it at lunch. You've just crossed the boundary to MY territory.
If the administrators want to say "we've removed sugary drinks from the vending machines", that's completely different than "sugary drinks are not allowed in the school at all (packed lunches)". Again, crossed the line.
So it goes back to getting input from the parents, and not just the minority of parents that are agitating, a MAJORITY of parents.
I was reading this and all I could think of was what you finally got to in the end..
"“Does helping SXSW (or any other business for that matter) get ahead help my business get ahead?”"
That's the question that needs to be asked by each and everyone. Folks will answer that different ways, but YOU gotta get something for it someway. I'm curious to ask the group, though, this is a new thought? I'd had though an artist would be keenly aware of this issue and would have already given it some thought--like when they first started out....
On “When Principles Become Problems (UPDATED!)”
This is why companies do salary research and compare their employees pay to the market range from the survey.
You're the highest earner of all your peers-assuming you and your peers are all working the same jobs. There's no way you'll get an increase until and unless the market range for the salary goes up or your responsibilties change or you get promoted. All the money the department has, if any, would be going to those who make less to bring them up to your level. In my world, this means you need to start positioning yourself for a promotion.
On “OUCH!”
Silverdine
Best burn cream ever. Call you doctor and ask if he'll write you a script. You can get it OTC in mexico. :)
On “Wage Mastery”
"Is there any possible way to justify putting a cap on CEO pay?" No, this is an internal company issue.
"Should we be having this conversation or even be taking it seriously?" No
And we shouldn't have a minimum wage either.
That being said, Blase has some good points and CEO comp should not be about the stock price. In a rising market, even dogs can have their prices rise. Comp should be about performance. Measurable performance. The change needed is in the Board. It needs to be independent.
On “The Centre Cannot Hold: Chinua Achebe”
I think one of the worst legacies of Western colonialist is that smashing of tribal groups into nation states, excluding the colonialism itself ofc, in Africa and the Middle East. God what a mess.
On “Whoops!”
Of course they did. They always do.
It's beyond me how you can follow proceedures and still discharge a weapon in an unsafe manner unless the weapon malfunctioned. Baring that, it's user error, and even if all proceedures were followed because no one would possible write a proceedure covering the accidental discharge of a firearm, he should have been fired for negligence.
On “To Change or Not to Change: What’s in a Surname?”
I recall after my marriage, my wife informed me that she was taking a day of vacation to go to the SS office and get all her name changed stuff worked out. I was rather surprised. We had never discussed her changing her name.
On “Whoops!”
If a civilian had done that, he'd have been arrested, most likely convicted and done time.
The SS agent should have been fired.
On “Dignity, Empathy, and the Iraq War”
I've been actively tuning out all this stuff because all this reflection is mental masturbation. Americans believe in their exceptionalism. We're different, so we can "fix" the world’s problems. Sure, we'll bring democracy to Iraq and the "graveyard of empires" and we will do it right because we are Americans.
Right.
You'd think we'd learn, but that's the damned thing. We don't, or there is some other reason for our actions: oil, power, etc. I've concluded it's the latter
On “Thursday Night Bar Fight #5: Brother, Can You Spare an Amendment?”
You actually believe that that one was legally passed?
On “Lessons Learned in the Workplace”
Mike,
RL > VL (Real Life Virtual Life)
Make no apologies. I've been there, as I'm sure many have, and it does suck. Only thing worse is doing it alone. The only quibble I'd have is "What I already knew but needed a reminder of is that the ‘new’ economy is heartless." This heartlessness isn't new.
Good luck and remember to keep on thinking of the things that you do have. You're still better off than a whole lotta folks.
On “CIA to get out of automated killing.”
This development allows the CIA to focus on "nano tech killing" technologies now that the drone concept has been proven reliable...
On “Thursday Night Bar Fight #5: Brother, Can You Spare an Amendment?”
All amendments have been effectively nullified by the various forms of gov't and the defacto concurrance of the population.
Return them all and maybe we'll get a credit?
On “Why Civil Marriage?”
"The medical decisions and hospital visitations issue is an example of where simple private contracting would not work."
Pff. Create your marriage contract how you want, file it with the county/state/etc. clerk. Done. Spouse not availabe, that's handled in the "alternative POA" section. Dont' fill out the forms, revert to default postions x,y,z. Essentially what you're complaining about is institutional inertia. That's essentially "it would be hard so let's not do it". I call BS.
"Is this tax policy discriminatory..." ALL tax policy is discrimatory in some form or another. Solution-break the connections between "marriage" and tax policy. And yes, I recognize that 1) this is hard 2) no one wants their subsidy to go away, etc., but the arguement is pure and fair....
On “To Fail as a Son”
Shesh, reverse the situation...
Anyway, each parent had this child and it deserves, and you are morally obligated, interation with each parent (baring abuse) to the maximum extent possible, and with as little snarky comments about the other parent. That means no moving out of town, out of the state, out of the country, if necessary.
You "own" this kid with the other parent for 18 years. Deal.
"
Not the divorce, the ex wife moving with her new guy to Iowa.
My ex and I never had kids, but her sister did. I try and stay as close to them as I can for this very reason. I valued them less when my ex and I were together because 1) i took them for granted and 2) they werern't interesting. Now that they are older, 18 and 14, they are more fun to be around. Of couse now, they have less interest in me....
On “The Sun Will Rise Again…”
In the interests of full disclosure and to tangent off BlaiseP, when are we Americans going to own up to our behavior in agitating for war, embargoing Japan, the disception at Pearl Harbor, and our refusal to accept Japan's conditional surrender? When are we going to admit that we need not drop two atom bombs on that country?
When are OUR war criminals going to be dug up and their monuments removed?
On “Rue The Ides”
"So all along, when people protested to Caesar that he was making himself into a king, he could point to precedent and say he was doing nothing new, and nothing that the republic hadn’t been through before without losing its republican character. This seemed a transparent fiction to his critics. But for a legal culture steeped in and heavily reliant on precedent, it mattered a lot....."
This sums it up nicely: I'm just using the power that has been previously exercized. This is the problem. Once you allow someone an exception, it becomes the rule. The thinking that "it's ok, he's one of us" may be true but for sure, sooner or later, he won't be one of you, and you'll be on the receiving end. This is why the electorate will get it in the end...
On “Noah Smith Trolls Working Class”
So I answer your question "I wish someone could come up with a non-hippie answer for what they mean by a non-consumerist economy." and you give me crap for doing so?
Maybe you would have preferred me to use calculus and show some equations?
I don't fault anyone for doing anything they want to do. Hell, it's (ostensibly) a free country, and if someone wants to spend themselves into poverty, go them, but I thought we were talking about concepts to help "the poor" get out of poverty?
And to assuage your feelings that I'm a crotchety old miser, my sister in law would beg to differ, considering she got a bottle of 20 year old Pappy's for xmas.
"
Well...
I don't view going to the mall to go shopping as "entertainment".
If I need an item, I'll get it. I wear clothes until they wear out.
I keep my car for @ 10 years and don't cycle them every 3 years.
I don't buy unnecessary crap, like upgrading my IPOD everytime a new version comes out, same with my phone.
I don't spend large amounts of money for Xmas gifts and sure as hell don't go into debt to do so.
When I do buy stuff, I try to buy stuff that will last--clothes, cars, shoes, etc.
I'm "frugal", not cheap.
That kinda stuff. Something along those lines perhaps?
On “How Not to Fire People”
The problem I have with this, other than the shitty way they did it, was Towson wasn't on the same page about the reason.
"The process used by Towson to reach a decision has been marred by a lack of transparency and the dissemination of unreliable data..." and "Though Towson released a 22-page report explaining its decision Friday, it did so minutes before Loeschke held a telephone conference with reporters. She and other Towson officials were not available for further comment or to explain budget and roster-size projections that differed from information previously disseminated by the school."
This stinks. Get your PR together. So the conclusion to be drawn by lots of folks is the Title 9 reasons were BS, true on not. Nice move Towson.
"
They used to be REAL cops.
On “Noah Smith Trolls Working Class”
Noah has some good points...they are a bit simplistic...
This is all anecdotal so... I've met folks who don't know what a budget is, how to track their spending or "know where all their money" went. I was also that person once too.
I also think that our society, as a whole, is very consumerist, and time oriented to spending vs. savings. That should change. That's how you accumulate wealth: not spending everything you have.
Where I think you're on point Ethan, is that of course, it's much easier for a guy making lots of income vs. the guy who isn't. I'd view that as obvious, and I think there are some ways to work on that. Generally income increases with education/training and better "life choices". I think it's really those "life choices" that are the real bitch and where improvements could be made in people's situations. The problem is, of course, how to get people to make better choices.
On “Big Gulps Freed In Big Apple”
Frankly, I don't trust bureaucrats anyway. I understand that their ostensible purpose is not the same as their real purpose--perpetuating the bureaucracy.
That being said, it's one thing for an administrator to say "school starts at 8am" and another to say "you can't have chocolate milk at lunch" because WE think your kid doesn't need it at lunch. You've just crossed the boundary to MY territory.
If the administrators want to say "we've removed sugary drinks from the vending machines", that's completely different than "sugary drinks are not allowed in the school at all (packed lunches)". Again, crossed the line.
So it goes back to getting input from the parents, and not just the minority of parents that are agitating, a MAJORITY of parents.
On “Writing for nothin’ and yer clicks for free!”
I was reading this and all I could think of was what you finally got to in the end..
"“Does helping SXSW (or any other business for that matter) get ahead help my business get ahead?”"
That's the question that needs to be asked by each and everyone. Folks will answer that different ways, but YOU gotta get something for it someway. I'm curious to ask the group, though, this is a new thought? I'd had though an artist would be keenly aware of this issue and would have already given it some thought--like when they first started out....
On “Imbalance of Power”
Two groups of elitest, power hungry, self righteous, presumptous, narcissistics?
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