Hypotheticals
If you go to a party with an open bar, would you rather have 3 free drinks and everyone else gets 4 or 2 free drinks and everyone else gets 1?
Would you rather work at a company where you get paid $50,000/year and everyone else gets paid $100,000/yr or a company where you get $45,000/yr and everyone else gets $35,000/yr? What about a company where you get $48,000/yr and everyone else gets $50,000/yr?
Would you rather get 1/2 of a 100g pie or 1/4 of a 240g pie?
How concerned should we be about the growing gap between the rich and the poor if the poor can be shown to be better off than they were before (but not as far better off as the rich have become)?
Would you rather work at a company where you get paid $50,000/year and everyone else gets paid $100,000/yr or a company where you get $45,000/yr and everyone else gets $35,000/yr? What about a company where you get $48,000/yr and everyone else gets $50,000/yr?
Would you rather get 1/2 of a 100g pie or 1/4 of a 240g pie?
How concerned should we be about the growing gap between the rich and the poor if the poor can be shown to be better off than they were before (but not as far better off as the rich have become)?