[luckyme]

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Heart surgeons who have sacrificed their twenties, work hard and study, deserve to be millionaires.

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Is there a list somewhere of "What we deserve" and who wrote the list, and who enforces it and what were the criteria.
The concept is baseless. Each culture conditions us to think there is a 'deserve' list. Get raped .. you get stoned...you deserve that. A different culture may believe somebody with the ability to be a doctor or a great soldier owes it to the culture they were born into, not the other way around.
That's part of the reasoning of Gates and Buffet... the prevailing system allowed them their wealth and they're 'paying back'. Similar reasoning for opposing the lifting of inheritance tax.
I may agree that doctors 'deserve' high pay, the next person may think it's a policeman, or a soldier, but it's not a stone-chiselled Right, it's a cultural/economic outcome.
Any act can be justified if it starts from the premise of "Well, I deserve X, so I'm taking it."

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