From: Dave Frightens Me on 2 Aug 2006 08:55 On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:48:09 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Padraig Breathnach writes: > >> The claim Mixi made is that they are more valuable, not that are more >> useful to society. > >No, I didn't make any such claim. I asked why they are paid more, >which is not the same thing. I said "If it's valuable, why aren't you better off?" You said "Why are professional basketball players paid more than teachers and doctors?" In context you could only have meant valuable=paid more, unless you were playing word games. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 2 Aug 2006 08:57 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > > > The words "free" and "market" come to mind. > > A free market exists for doctors, teachers, and basketball players > alike, in the United States. > > Why do real-estate agents make so much more than plumbers? They don't. Next question. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: The Reid on 2 Aug 2006 09:09 Following up to A Human Being >> >> If it's valuable, why aren't you better off? >> > >> >Why are professional basketball players paid more than teachers and >> >doctors? >> >> Because they are more valuable. > >In what way is their work more useful to society than that of doctors >and teachers ? It isn't, but we value them more. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
From: The Reid on 2 Aug 2006 09:09 Following up to Dave Frightens Me >There are far fewer professional basketball players that doctors or >teachers, so they can get much more money. a *few* people with *rare* talents get a lot of money from sport. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
From: Jim Ley on 2 Aug 2006 09:51
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:45:29 +0100, Padraig Breathnach <padraigb(a)MUNGEDiol.ie> wrote: >"A Human Being" <justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>In what way is their work more useful to society than that of doctors >>and teachers ? >> >The claim Mixi made is that they are more valuable, not that are more >useful to society. > >If you want to sell sweatshirts or fizzy drinks or trainers or >chocolate bars or cars or whatever, whose endorsement is more useful >to you, that of a teacher or that of a basketball player? > >Do try to keep up. We are living in a capitalist world where the idea >of being useful to society is regarded as socialist anathema. no, it's where beinguseful to society has a monetary value placed on it, and teachers and doctors have an appropriately small monetary value, because of the benefits the practioners get - namely the secure jobs, the "value of society" goodness feeling. Jim. |