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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (337298)5/11/2007 3:43:57 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574767
 
Because the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

But they aren't.

They are getting richer, but they would still be getting richer even if you limited top salaries for school chancellors.

But how do you determine if a chancellor is worth $500K more?

How do you determine if anyone is doing an excellent job. There is a lot of ways, some of them subtle. I suppose if you think the chancellor of the school can't have a noticeable effect on a school, that any very high salaries would be unjustified. But I'd disagree with the idea that the chancellor can't have an effect, and a small % effect on a large base, makes for an change large enough to be worth a large salary. Even if the chancellor didn't make enough of a difference to justify his salary that's between him and his employer. It really isn't any of your business (sure you have as much of a right to an opinion as anyone else, but your not paying the money and you shouldn't properly get to decide how it is spent).

The truth of the matter is that these salaries are arbitrary.

They are the result of an agreement between the chancellor and the school. I don't know why you would call such negotiation and agreement arbitrary. I'm not sure how the concept of arbitrary or not arbitrary really applies here. Salaries aren't based on some sort of overall rule of the universe, in that sense they might be considered arbitrary but in that sense most things are. What's really arbitrary is deciding on some limit and imposing it on everyone rather then let them decide for themselves.
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