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To: TimF who wrote (337300)	5/12/2007 3:42:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574848

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. I have said repeatedly that salaries at the high end are growing exponentially when compared to lesser salaries. I am not making this up....statistic after statistic supports that thesis. My God, P. Hilton gets millions to attend parties. Because she is pretty? Because she has cool clothes? Because she spells 'sign' "sihn"? When a society has so twisted its values that an attractive woman with cool clothes can command a salary of millions just by attending a party for an hour while 23 million of its people live in poverty, that society has become badly corrupted. And your constant defense of these practices is adding to the corruption. 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. You know what arbitrary means. There is no fixed schedule that says a chancellor must get X amount of dollars. As you attest to up above, the salary is determined by negotations between the school and the candidate. That's arbitrary.