{"id":4005,"date":"2010-10-29T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2010-10-29T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:10:15","slug":"how-wide-should-income-differentials-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4005","title":{"rendered":"How wide should income differentials be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my passionate concerns is over inequalities in income, wealth and power &#8211; it shapes much of my political thought and aspirations. I&#8217;ve blogged before on the wide income differentials in British society &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2789\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3215\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would be ridiculous for all of us to be paid the same; we have different experience, skills, education and responsibilities. But how wide should the income gap be in a fair society?<\/p>\n<p>I have no problem with some people being paid more, even a lot more, than the average.\u00a0 Say 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, 40 times.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incomesdata.co.uk\/news\/press-releases\/directorspay2010.pdf\">a new report<\/a> from research group Incomes Data Services, British boardroom pay rose by 55% in a year. The average FTSE 100 chief executive earned \u00a34.9 million last year, almost 200 times the  average wage. Now that can&#8217;t be right or fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my passionate concerns is over inequalities in income, wealth and power &#8211; it shapes much of my political thought and aspirations. I&#8217;ve blogged before on the wide income differentials in British society &#8211; see here and here. Of course, it would be ridiculous for all of us to be paid the same; we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}