| Wyrdness said: Naive, the are many highly educated people who go to university only to end up stacking shelves, in retail and serving food in catering, most CEOs are actually part of a circle of aquaintainces and closely connected to those at the top. It's not what you know it's who you know, not everyone is promoted to senior in fact few people are despite being just as qualified otherwise businesses would have just as many of more senior management than staff but the company can't afford that. Those high wage jobs are in demand because they're limited. |
Who exactly are those highly educated people and since when did getting a college degree guarantee you a job ? Your pay and employment at the start is largely determined by what kind of degree you hold and on average college graduates still are better off than high school graduates ...
Connections are only going to get you so far. Just because a janitor knows a CEO personally doesn't mean that he will be getting a managing position anytime soon. In fact the majority of the new hires are WITHOUT direct connections according to linkedin. Senior positions are simply not available to EVERY type of jobs like janitors, cachiers, and etc for the vast majority of the time. To move into senior positions you must change your career towards management if you want to rise up in ranks and most employees simply have no desire for such ...
The high wage jobs are in demand because there are very few out there with that skill set and those who can acquire that skill set. It's all determined by supply and demand ...
| Wyrdness said: What do you mean if we tax 25%? Go to any financial expert and try telling them Greece was 100% successful in collecting taxes you'd be laugh out as it's common knowledge go read up on why the countries lending Greece money were in the prolong debates with Greece, one of the central issues was the Greek government collecting money internally to pay them back as lenders didn't have confidence in them, they're nowhere near successful in doing so that's why Greece is classed as a peripheral country, you've essentially made up something with the if we do this and that to declare something else that is untrue. Read up on the Greek Tax problem, in 2009 general evasion was estimated to be around 20 billion Euros while evasion by self employed was around 28 billion Euros, the latter is 31% of the budget deficit they had by itself, in other words that's a third of the excess money leaving the country to pay for expenses and with the former that's around 50% of the deficit for that year and that's only the start with a further 37 billion owed and 20 Billion kept in Swiss accounts, all of this is before we even get to off shore companies. Tax Evasion in 2012 was around 24% of the GDP. |
Since there's a large amount of self-employed Greeks who won't make their earnings be known who's fault is it exactly ?
For Greek citizens to talk up so much about wanting these social programs a lot of them don't like paying for them apparently ... (They can't have it both ways.)
The issue isn't the 1% in Greece's case, it's the 30% ...
