Howard Gardner: ban annual incomes above $4 million

Harvard Magazine ^ | September-October 2007

[reaganaut1]

In the magazine Foreign Policy, [Howard Gardner] argued in the spring for upper limits on the amount of income an American should be allowed to keep and the amount of wealth that can be passed on to beneficiaries ($4 million a year and $200 million, respectively). “It makes sense to be moderate politically only if there are two sides willing to engage,” he says. “The right wing isn’t just taking over the country, it’s shanghaiing all our values. If there’s a Republican administration after the next election, I would join in efforts for some sort of secession. It’s not the same country anymore.”

[Angry Citizen 2]

Why does anyone need more than 10 or 20 million dollar anyway?

One possibility is for corporations to issue two kinds of shares, control shares (which have little or no financial interest), and profit shares (which contain all the financial interest).

That way, people who’ve built big companies and want to retain control of them, without having to keep control of excess billions of dollars, can do so be retaining most or all of the control shares, while doing what they want with the profit shares, such as donating them to charities or foundations.

[Da Coyote]

Harvard, eh? Supports my contention that MIT is the only school worth respecting in Boston. Harvard has become a joke (physics and math departments excepted, of course).

[xrmusn]

Didn’t some Doofus administration BETWEEN the Bushes propose this? and sort of enact it? All the companies did was turn salary into stock options, then falsely drove up the value of the stocks and cashed in before anyone (well most anyone) got wise to the scheme....

Somewhat like the POLS cutting the military back and then wonder why the Blackwater’s of the world exists and why the Guard and Reserve have to act like they are active troops

(JIM) BEEM ME UP SCOTTIE

[KarlInOhio]

One possibility is for corporations to issue two kinds of shares, control shares (which have little or no financial interest), and profit shares (which contain all the financial interest).

That sounds like how the New York Times is organized. If you separate control from ownership you get idiots like Pinch Schulzberger in charge of your company.

[MarkL]

“The right wing isn’t just taking over the country, it’s shanghaiing all our values."

I suppose that's true, if grand theft is one of "our values."

I've said this before, and I'll say it again to this sort of person... "What right does the government have to money earned, well after the taxes were paid on it, and were paid on earnings gained from holding that property? The only 'right' the government would have on it would be through the assumption that all wealth and property actually belongs to the government, and that there's no right of personal property."

This sort of attitude disgusts me.

Mark

[steel_resolve]

Could you see this clown picking up a gun and leading a charge of succession? Patrick Henry he is not.

[central_va]

would join in efforts for some sort of secession. It’s not the same country anymore.”

sarcasm > Please see the FR posting guidelines../sarcasm

[HIDEK6]

Why does anyone need more than 10 or 20 million dollar anyway?

It takes at least 50 mil to be "The Man."

[Disambiguator]

He’d be in real trouble with a gun if he is left-eye dominant (look closely at the photo).

[kromike]

Uhhh, yeah. Try selling that to the Hollyweird Liberal-Lefties.

[Old Professer]

“As a psychologist, Howard Gardner is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, first propounded in 1983 in one of his two dozen books, Frames of Mind. Intelligence, he posits, isn’t a single faculty that can be measured with a standard IQ test. Instead, humans have several forms of this commodity, some of which show up in nonacademic pursuits—music-making, for instance.”

I’ve been wondering where this notion originated - my experience is that it has become nearly universal as it tends to make people feel better about not being one of the gifted or worse, not even the dreaded average.

It has been my contention and has been since I was six, that intelligence is simply the ability to learn.

The greater the intelligence, the quicker and more capacious the mind can encompass knowledge and then have it at hand to put to some use.

Notice, I didn’t say a good use or a profitable use in building wealth or even an altruistic use as others define it.

Some people are content merely to know and to know they can know more when that is not enough.

The rest are jealous or nonchalant or aggrieved.

His $4 million times 300 million people leaves an awful lot for the government to divide - which is probably what drives his calculus.

[Old Professer]

.10 for movie, .05 for popcorn; then the “Talkies” came along and spoiled everything.

[cynwoody]

If there’s a Republican administration after the next election, I would join in efforts for some sort of secession. It’s not the same country anymore.

Sounds good to me, Howard. It would be a much improved country without you.

[ikka]

Let’s ban college endowment funds that are over $4 Billion per year then, as well!

[Enchante]

Prof. Howard Gardner: my theory is that there are multiple intelligences. Unfortunately, like Paul Krugman, I didn’t get any of them!

[nathanbedford]

So the psychologist says that if his team loses the next election he is going to pick up his marbles and go home. He does not want to play anymore. Why are psychologists often so childish?

He wants to forbid people from earning more than $4 million income in one year. Why? Has he psychoanalyzed the human psyche and concluded that it is bad for us to have 4 million? Why not 3,999,999? Is this number the product of his professorial discipline or merely the flatuation of a tenured leftist?

Let me engage in some psychoanalyzing of my own: childishness and giving in to the temptation to play God often seem to be found in the same ego. On the surface it may seem that one is small and petty and the other is grandiose, but if one steps back and contemplates the poor wretch one sees immediately that these are merely symptoms of the same distended ego.

So the professor wants to somehow secede should he be disappointed in the next election results. Now I've accused the professor of being childish and grandiosity all the same time-and most damning of all (literally) I've indicted him for the breach of the first Commandment-but just as I think these are distortions of the same engorged ego, so I think the professor can be said to be fully consistent in his views. If America as it is currently constituted frustrates his ambition to rule us all for our own good-to play God,-then he will seek a venue which will permit him to shape society to his liking. He will secede. In this the professor is quite consistent with most leftists who hate America because it stands as the greatest obstacle in their mad quest to rule us all down to every particular of our lives, including how much income we shall be permitted to keep.

The leftists are anti-American because America frustrates their ambition.

As the world moves closer and closer to one world government, (the law of the Sea Treaty being only the most recent example of this trend,) the leftist sees world government as a bigger forum for his ambitions. He doesn't give a damn about America anyway, his interest is in finding new levers of power and the more leverage he can gain from his new fulcrum, the better he likes it. Give him a lever long enough and a one world power base upon which to stand, and he will move the earth.

[litehaus]

which was 50+ years ago.

That's bout where my wife tells me I'm living.......LOL.....

[achilles2000]

I’m for Gardner’s proposal as long as professors can’t make more than $10,000/year...

[LonePalm]

I would have to say that they would need at least one of each category of stupidity. With anything less, they would not be, by definition, complete idiots.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Kirkwood]

I think think they want to live forever in the clinton era, although some of the older ones would go back to the Kennedy era just so they can re-live the 60s.