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Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

DM_Blake wrote:

As Zahir so wittily pointed out, it seems likely that you're talking about the characters in your game rather than the players themselves, so I'll address that.

Hey now, I just answer the questions as they are asked!

Hush you, take your complement without protest. Your response made me laugh - I felt your wit deserved being called out.

Shhh! Don't look him in the eye.

Name: Stanislaw Medvyedski
Race: Human
Classes/levels: 1 Cavalier
Adventure: The Stolen Lands
Location: Landmark Tree
Catalyst: The arrogance of groupthink - when the rat is smarter than you are.

Yakman wrote:

One thing to keep in mind, is that while CEO pay in the USA is very high, it is also typically laden with incentives and is stock rich. Meaning that if the company performs well, the CEO is well paid. If it doesn't, while he's not broke by any means, he may very well not make nearly as much money as he had hoped.

That stock's value is guarded against loss in ways that are difficult to grasp by people who aren't professional stock brokers and accountants. CEO's leave companies all the time that are in dire straights, yet somehow manage to drag huge earnings along with them.

Also, no one is suggesting that CEO's shouldn't be paid for their time and efforts. We're just suggesting that CEO's probably aren't actually doing 350 times as much work as their normal employees.

Here's a good video that helps describe how wealth is distributed in the US.

I groaned when he appealed to authority within the first six seconds.

Did you know, 65 Fortune 500 company CEOs got their degree at Harvard?

That guy must have skipped a class or something.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/ articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school

It seems that I must apologize to the Moonies.

Union bosses’ salaries put ‘big’ in Big Labor

It was Citizen Stanislaw's sloppiness that was in error.

Yes, that is the article I was looking at concerning labor boss pay. The Washington Times is a notorious right wing gas rag so I wouldn't trust anything they printed without checking around.

You sir, win the cookie. You checked for sources and formed your own opinion.

I dropped some hilarious stuff in my posts and no one picked up on it.

Stanislaw wrote:

The solution to your quandry is that MANY, perhaps even most political conservatives, are southern born. The word is pronounced RE-di-clas in the vernacular and creeps into spelling.

That might be... I hadn't thought of looking for a regional dialectic explanation. Thanks!

Stanislaw wrote:

I'm not actually a political conservative, I'm a radical centrist

Errr, my aunt in NM wants to kill all immigrants, wipe the Spanish language from the face of America, imprison all African-Americans, euthanize the homeless, dismantle the government, and live on a feudal estate. She is very outspoken in referring to herself as a "moderate."

I'm left of her.

Stanislaw wrote:

Yip, I spelled it wrong. Whoops! Everything I say till the day I die is ridiculus and clearly all arguments I make are ridiculosus.

No; just wondering why so many political conservatives misspell that particular word in exactly that particular way; it strains the bounds of coincidence and implies some intermediate causation. Is there some writer you all admire who misspells it like that, so you're used to seeing it in print that way? Or some radio personality who pronounces the word "REEEEEE-diculous"? In either of those cases, the mystery would be clarified.

I'm not actually a political conservative, I'm a radical centrist and agitator of both extremes of the political and a firm believer in uncertainty. The solution to your quandry is that MANY, perhaps even most political conservatives, are southern born. The word is pronounced RE-di-clas in the vernacular and creeps into spelling.

Stanislaw wrote:

And that... by comparison, I think ALL salaries over what I'm making are rediculous. My tax returns should be checked every year and everyone's salary set to my level or less.

Wow, good thing no one's suggesting that.

Though if someone did, I would hope they would spell "ridiculous" correctly.

I guess the correct spelling is ridiculus, or should it be ridiculosus?

bugleyman wrote:

Though if someone did, I would hope they would spell "ridiculous" correctly.

That came up in another thread, too, in which I asked why that particular misspelling ("rediculous") is endemic among political conservatives. It seemed to me that spelling should not be affected by politics, but apparently it is.

Yip, I spelled it wrong. Whoops! Everything I say till the day I die is ridiculus and clearly all arguments I make are ridiculosus.

Stanislaw wrote:

And that... by comparison, I think ALL salaries over what I'm making are rediculous. My tax returns should be checked every year and everyone's salary set to my level or less.

Wow, good thing no one's suggesting that.

Though if someone did, I would hope they would spell "ridiculous" correctly.

"You and me both. As usual, the bluster quickly collapses in the face of facts. Sadly, that never seems to make any difference."

-- bugleyman

Nuh uhh! My quackulations are perfect!

My point of course is that the title: CEOs earn 354 times more than average american working means nothing. Because it accounts for both those CEOs makeing under 100,000 AND those making over 90,000,000 like Google's.

And that if you took all the 'unreasonable' salary from the top 2% of CEOs, however you define that (I used 9,000,000), and gave it back to American workers they could make an additional 450 dollars a year. Not exactly eye-popping but something to be sure.

Or, they could quit their unions and get back 400 dollar per year.

And that if the average American working really wanted to improve their position they would do the little things first, like quit smoking, slamming cases of beer, barrells of soda, and eating at McDonalds.

And that... by comparison, I think ALL salaries over what I'm making are rediculous. My tax returns should be checked every year and everyone's salary set to my level or less.

Twelve fish, Twelve pools.

Ah yes Grasshopper, you see at last.

How the standard bearers for the poor american worker stand up?

CEO Annual Salary Percent
Under $100,000 7 %
$100,000 – $250,000 43 %
$250,000 – $500,000 27 % <------------ In this range.
$500,000 – $750,000 9 % <------------ and here
$750,000 – $1,000,000 5 %
$1,000,000 – $3,000,000 6 %
Over $3,000,000 2 %

Boilermakers union president earned $506,000
Teamsters union local $435,000 a year
Laborers union president made $441,000
National Production Workers Union president was paid $591,346

Those salaries are financed largely, of course, by dues paid by members, and the average dues paid to a local by each member rose to $401 in 2011, up from $272 in 2000

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/10/labor-union-bosses-salaries -put-big-in-big-labor/#ixzz2RKTNnoGL

CEO Annual Salary Percent
Under $100,000 7 %
$100,000 – $250,000 43 %
$250,000 – $500,000 27 %
$500,000 – $750,000 9 %
$750,000 – $1,000,000 5 %
$1,000,000 – $3,000,000 6 %
Over $3,000,000 2 % <-------------these guys must be the problem.

Chief Executives 400,400

8,008 * (12,300,000 - 3,000,000) = $72,072,000000 / working americans
equals about $457.00.

Enjoy your pay raise.

$3.50 cents per pack of cigarettes = about $1,277 per year PLUS $300.00 dollars per year per american in reduced health care costs.

Pick a battle worth fighting.

The Russian Civil War is great for wargaming. Come on, multiple nationalities, rifles, machines guns, small armies, cavalry, armored cars, bi-plans, tanks, and armored trains? Forget about it. Not even a choice.

You could have the PCs attend the meeting in Daggermark, under a flag of truce. While they are there, a senior member(s) of the conclave is assassinated just as he was saying "Can you dig it!" violating and ending the truce. The PCs are implicated in the assasination by their arch nemesis party, the Razmir Rogues who are Daggermark turncoats, and must run for their lives back to the Stolen Lands. With a bounty on their head and free booters, hunters, and state forces in hot pursuit they have numerous encounters on the way back to the stolen lands, and freedom, they just want to feel safe again.

They arrive back in the stolen lands just in time for a climactic battle with the Razmir Rogues who hide in the dark taunting the PCs with “Come out to playiiiaaaaa” - but the battle is interrupted when Jallor Clovish arrives at the head of a large force from Daggermark to arrest the PCs? NO! In the interim they have discovered the treachery of the Razmir Rogues and have come to do justice.

As the master plan unfolds, with the absence of Jallor in the north, Razimrian forces poor across the border to take advantage of the confusion. Quickly concluding his business Jallor gets word and rushes southwards. Just before departing he turns to the PCs and says, “You warriors are good, real good.”
The PCs can choose to assist the war down south, but clearly they are under no obligation to do so, they were almost killed as traitorous scum after all!

Name: Stanislaw Medvyedski
Race: Human
Classes/levels: 1 Cavalier
Adventure: The Stolen Lands
Location: Thorn River Camp
Catalyst: The confidence of youth