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Thread #15411   Message #138314
Posted By: northfolk/al cholger
19-Nov-99 - 09:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Capitalism and the Arts
Subject: RE: BS: Capitalism and the Arts
Always ready to throw down the glove... what I left out of my previous post is that in other competing market economies, most notably Japan where the difference between factory worker and CEO is around 7 to 1, and the europeans where that ratio is in the area of 23 to 1, our current predicament has to yield the question:

How many new teaching, or other productive useful jobs could be generated by redistributing those obscene benefits. along with the concept of having more not less workers comes more leisure time to accomplish and enjoy the art and culture that this post is about.