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RE: With great power comes great responsibility

in #sociology6 years ago

I'm not going to keep this going too long, but I'm surprised you still don't seem to see the disconnect in saying that teachers need to be payed more because it will help them perform at a higher level, but other disciplines need to be payed less and it somehow won't affect their performance. This is economic interventionism, and has been known to crash economies and cause mass starvation.

But I'll just leave some quick responses and be on my way...

  1. Yes, you would get talent in education... to the detriment of every other field. Also, because of the artificial demand, you would get better teachers by your stated criteria, not necessarily better overall education. I recommend this video to give you an idea what kind of scammers such a setup could attract.
  2. Came to agreement in another comment thread, so ignoring. :)
  3. Yes, I can see you are openly anti-religious... I guess for a dictatorship, that is pretty standard. But religious organizations are responsible for a large amount of social cohesion and community outreach(feeding the homeless, taking care of the sick, consoling the grieving). If you tax them heavily, many will simply disband and try to help their community without that organized effort, and will certainly not be able to do as much. I know, you will say that your dictatorship will certainly help the communities better, and I can't prove it won't since it's all hypothetical... but I just hope you eventually realize what you are actually doing here. You made the government the god of the people. Maybe that's your intention in this utopia of yours, but I dunno... I wouldn't really want to live under a government that demands so much from its citizenry.
  4. Ah, yes. This is called envy. You hear about someone making a lot of money, and you think they don't deserve it. If someone manages to provide a product that millions of people want, and is paid what he charges for it completely willingly, what did he do wrong? The customers aren't upset, they got what they paid for. The person selling them didn't lie, didn't scam them... heck, he gave them something that otherwise wouldn't of even existed. If corruption does occur, of course, go after that, but otherwise you are angry at a person simply because they are successful. The actual effects of targeting the rich in this way by taking large chunks of their salary is they flee to entirely separate countries where they aren't taxed into oblivion, taking their businesses with them and crashing the economy of the place they flee. This has been tried before, multiple times in all kinds of contexts, always with these same results.

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