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标题：Do the Top 1% Deserve Their Pay Packages–And Why?
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作者：Joseph S. Fulda
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：2013
卷号：35
期号：1
页码：187-192
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：It is difficult not to be sympathetic with the view of the various and varied Occupy movements and with their single co mmon theme that the wealthiest 1% of Americans, and, indeed, the world—as this is not only the single largest mass American movement since protesters effectively forced Lyndon B. Johnson not to seek reelection for the U.S. presidency, b ut also a movement without national borders—have it all, at least financially speaking, whereas the rest of us have increasingly less. Libertarians often offer abstract arguments to the effect that massive inequality is a necessary part of free enterprise, that an unequal distribution of talents must necessarily result in an unequal distribution of rewards, and that, in the long run, this very inequality benefits the least well -off. Such arguments might well do in less gut -wrenching times, but in times that "try men's so ul's,"1to use Thomas Paine's phrase, and where short-run survival is often at issue and the issue, these arguments will not only fall on deaf ears, b ut actually do the conservative-libertarian movement serious and long-lasting damage—as the Tea Party seems to understand in its attempts, at times, to make common cause with the Occupiers. Therefore, and also because these abstract arguments are quite well known, we will steer completely clear o f them here, instead concentrating o n three arguments that if less tried -and-true are also far more appropriate to the times