Was reviewing old posts in this thread, this one caught my eye:
[quote=jpinpb]CAR – I’d go a step further and say the 1% is unproductive.[/quote]
Isn’t every anesthesiologist a member of the 1%? Every heart surgeon? Does someone suddenly cease being productive when they pass $350k per year? There is a long, long, long way from the 3,000,000 or so constituing the vast majority of the “1%” to the very few hedge fund managers and trust fund babies. Did you know some air traffic controllers in Europe (Portugal?) make over $300k US a year? Yep, look it up. (They’re unionized…)
But beyond the mathematical sloppiness of the “1%” phrase, I think there is a dehumanizing component to it, which your statement above exemplifies.
So let’s make it human. Remember RaptorDuck? I got the impression he was into drug discovery research and funding. He attributed his success to working harder and being more familiar with the technology than most of his peers. If you followed him (or her) around for a week, at the end of that week, do you think you’d call him unproductive?
