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It does make it theft and it makes it wrong.
When have I advocated total freedom?
As for executive salaries,
Yes a line worker is reponsible if one or two cars leave the factory with a defect, but if the whole company goes bust it is the management's fault. They are responsible for the whole company so are under a lot of stress. I believe bosses do need to be compensated for their responsibility with high pay, but some of the high pay packets reported in the media are far too excessive.
I sympathise with people who sponge. Why the hell should they work in degradation for nearly nothing because of their circumstances?
A true capitalist would say because otherwise society doesn't work. But if I was in that position then I wouldn't want society to work, I'd wish it every harm I could.
Its easy for us to go on about spongers and the like till our faces go blue, saying we've paid our dues because we had to work in Sainsbury's for a few months when we were a student and so we know its possible to work like that.
But maybe if you spent a day living on the poverty line, working for other's profits with no real prospects for yourself you'd harbour contempt and hatred enough to be comfortable with "sponging" instead of working for faceless bastards who pay you shit.
Pay everyone the same and call them equal, then I'll have some contempt for "spongers"
What happens is if someone is working lets say 35 hrs with a minimum wage and they happen to be only £1.00 over the amount the government say they need to live on. So by the time they pay all their bills they are working for nothing, but someone who is signing on will still get rent rebates, council tax rebates etc.
So what would you do in the same shoes?
Some people would say "I want to work" and continue working even if they would be worse off, but on the other hand you would have a large amount of people who would say "stuff it im not working when im better off on the dole"
It depends on circumstances of different people as to wether they would still be living in poverty even getting the national minimum wage. I.E how many dependant people in the house, amount they pay mortgage etc.
Im not so sure wether more people are better off even though they are working.
I THINK NOT!!!
But people vote for the government, you could vote for a party (or form one) that wouldn't tax you, you are free to do that but it would appear people don't agree with you.....:p