Name a "job".....

by Jourles 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  funkyderek

  Jourles:

  If you were to rank in importance the positions of a doctor and an actor, why does a doctor get paid less than an actor such as Tom Cruise?

  Because doctors are interchangeable. More people can be doctors than can be Tom Cruise. Having Tom Cruise in a movie earns more money than having another actor - even one who's better at acting and better-looking (and there's no shortage of those). He earns precisely what people who have money are willing to pay him for what he does, no more, no less.

  I see nothing wrong with paying Tom Cruise $100k a year for his "work."

  But why should he settle for $100k? He's worth millions in box office receipts. If you offered him $100k a year, and someone else is willing to pay him more, why should he be forced to take your offer?

  It is all about outdoing the other companies.

  Exactly. Why shouldn't it be?
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  Satanus

  Entertainment is the great pacifier. If us monkeys were not glued to stupid tv and movies w stupid sitcoms, if we did not live vicariously through tv sport, tv blood and guts, if we had all that extra idle time on our hands, we would be doing mischief, stupidity and blood and guts ourselves. So, you see, it all does serve a very useful purpose in keeping order in society (civilisation?).

  S
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  HappyDad

  ...that doesn't benefit society at all. You know - the ones where people get paid buttloads of cash for basically doing nothing that helps people in general.

  Michael Jakson's umbrella holder.

  I wonder how much he gets paid.

  HappyDad
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  Jeffro

  Tabloid writers ("Neo-Nazi aliens abducted my squirrel and forced it into a weight-loss program") Clairvoyants (especially the ones that respond to letters in trashy women's magazines) Trashy women's magazine people