What's wrong with successful businessmen getting very high income?
I read a book on business, and research had showed that one of the reason that CEO's get very high salaries is not to motivate the President of the company, but to motivate the Vice-President.
Unfortunately, IRI has many elements of communism in our society. We don't need to be a capitalist country, but we need to have certain capitalist elements if we want to progress materialistically. Someone like Babak Zanjani created many jobs.
I remember a while back I was watching a debate on TV and there was an economic ministry or something. Anyway, one caller called in and asked him what kind of car he had. And he was all "I just have a local Iranian car, nothing more". Why should I listen to someone on economy who is proud of his low status? I rather listen to someone talk economy who can tell me he has a Maserati, a private jet, and a 1,000 penthouse. Obviously, he knows his shit, he knows how to make money, he knows how the economy works, so I will listen to him.
But the mentality is that if he is rich, than how can he understand what the average person wants? Which is moronic reasoning. A cancer patient doesn't ask for a doctor who has cancer, does he? You don't want to be trained in French by a person who can barely speak French either? When it comes to economy, it should be the same. We should listen to those who are richer than us.
As long as the rich are not shown as role models, we can't every expect to be wealthy. I'm fine with that, as long as the society accepts it and does not whine every day.
This should be shown in Seda Sima every day,
Nothing is wrong with getting rich. As long as the riches are earned.
Here we are not talking about riches that were earned. But rather were obtained through
economic rent, which means riches that were not earned, but were obtained because someone had access to something to detriment of others because he was unfairly favored.
Personally I am against capital punishment for financial crimes since these crimes happen because of structural weaknesses in the economic system of a country whose fault lies with the governing structure of the country and not with those who took unfair advantage of it. But this does not make these crimes any less criminal in nature.
And you obviously are not interested to learn. The ideas that you bring in, are highly Western, without you understanding what they are.
Sales and its methods are very important in Western economies because they have the capability to EFFICIENTLY produce in EXCESS almost every product you name. Therefore the need arises for 'sales'. This is opposite to what happens in backward economies, in which the inefficiency and inabilities in production hinder meeting the demand. The productivity is so low in such economies, that the demand is always higher than production, causing inflation and misery in a distributive economy.
In such a backward economy, it is the exclusive and criminal access to information and privileged rights which give a few opportunity to become rich at the cost of public. Such riches have not been earned because production was increased or because a more efficient method of production was invented or a new innovation brought a new product to the market place. These riches were gotten because someone knew someone and they hatched a plot to get rich by limiting the market to themselves.
For instance the video clip you have brought in, refers to an idea which was invented by a US Air Force fighter pilot, the legendary John Boyd:
OODA loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This dude was a proponent of innovation in production and creativity. The application of his ideas to sales did not start with sales. His ideas were first applied in industry and then to sales. There can be no sales, when there is no product to sell (unless you want to just import and use sale techniques only for imported products, which is laughable to say the least).
Take the instance of Japanese company Toyota which has been applying similar ideas in its production lines even long before Boyd, verbalized and theorized his system. Boyd was in love with how Japanese did business and advocated for learning from Japanese (though he believed Japanese actually learnt the idea from American supermarkets as per a legend in which a Japanese manufacture executive visits one in US).
This is the video you people have to watch (not the video you brought in):
A major problem with people in backward countries is, they do not want to learn or even if they by accident learn something, it is the wrong thing (learning to pitch a sale when there is nothing to sell for instance since there is no innovation or productivity).
In my previous post on this thread, I had linked to an article published yesterday on page one,of a Canadian newspaper. In that article you can see how a Western woman finds her love and because of that love, she helps to perfect a product further.
Such people do not exist in backward economies. The real problem in a country like Iran is not because people are not being allowed to get rich on economic rent (they already do, despite all the executions and they will continue to despite continuing to execute them). The real problem is, in Iran people like that woman do not exist. People who are fueled by their extreme love for something. So much love that they go on understanding and perfecting the world around themselves, through discoveries, innovations and ONLY THEN selling them in a FAIR market place.