"This means that, on average, a CEOs earns in a single day almost as much as the average worker makes in an entire year. "
With a little bit of imagination there are ways to update the Marxist labor theory of value - an under-used socialist " propaganda " tool.
We socialists question and challenge the moral legitimacy of so called " legitimate " wealth . What can one individual DO or THINK in the course of a working day that justifies these obscene differences in income ? To be sure , there will be no million dollar state lottery winners under democratic socialism.
Why should a football player make more than a brilliant scientist or professional scholar ? Medical science measures WORK - even brain work- in CALORIES . Why are not very rich people burning up with fever if they truly WORKED for a living like the rest of us ?
Perhaps in the enlightened socialist future a clinical thermometer will determine weekly pay checks !
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