> In an ideal world, salaries should be more related to earnings than > simple > job offer-demand (I said 'more' related, not completely). > The distribution of wealth is extremely disproportionate. > ... you might agree that current society is degrading the true value > of > work, what it does, and how the private sector benefits from it. > The leveling shouldn't be eastern/western, it should be a leveling > of the > distribution of wealth in the whole world. In deepest South America a list member is convulsing on the floor in a fit of apoplectic rage, horror and revulsion. When / if he recovers, and it may take some days, he will either dispatch an offlist email your way that will singe your eyebrows and leave you flash blind for a week, launch a public broadside that will make you wish that you were instead at the Battle of the River Plate (closer now to him than you) on either side of the action, resign from the list in deepest dudgeon, or none of these things. Probably the latter :-) - but you're tempting him sorely :-). It's always interesting to see the vast range of opinions on this list. Makes life interesting. OK out their in Sth America. Your turn. You know who you are. :-) Russell -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist