A person's salary is directly determined by what society values their job to be worth. So it's impossible for someone to earn more than what they contribute to society.
Quote:
<I>Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it...He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for society that it was no part of his intention. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.</I>
--Adam Smith, <I>Wealth of Nations</I>
|
11-07-2002, 05:25 PM
Threaded Mode