@Crashsequence2012 Your use of the shift key suggests that you are the one who makes those topics emotional and unable to be discussed (the only constant in all your failed conversations is you, after all). I’ve had rational discussions about each of those issues in my lifetime, though I’ve never seen you personally be rational about anything at all.
The issue of CEO pay is actually a good example of your inability to participate unemotionally in a conversation. In every discussion of the issue I’ve ever seen, no one has expressed the view that they resent other people making more money than they do. If that was the case, those same people should be ranting and raving about a lot more people.
What most people are against is not capitalism, but greed. There is a difference. It’s one thing to be wealthy. It’s another thing to use your wealth to buy the government and rig the system. I don’t want to deny anyone what they have earned, but in that way I am very different from the CEOs who bribe politicians into adopting policies designed to take my money for themselves at the expense of the nation’s (and world’s) economy.
Time for a little separation of corporation and state.