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In some countries, a few people earn extremely high salaries. Some people think that this is good for a country, while others believe that the government should control salaries and limit the amount people can earn. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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The social gap between the richest representatives of society and the poorest of them is one of the most significant
problem
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 in many countries all over the world nowadays.
However
, there are still a lot of supporters of the theory that
such
 a gap is rather an engine of progress than a way to stagnation and degradation for the whole society
like
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 other
people
 claim. In what way those gifted
people
 who earn extremely huge
amount
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 of money can be beneficial for the country? Undoubtedly, they are those who are capable to nudge
the
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progress
investing
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 their money
to
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 scientific
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 and new technologies.
Besides
, it is
widely-happened
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 that wealthy businessmen give some part of their income to charity.
Although
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 it should help to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, it,
on the contrary
,
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an
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uncontrollable
grow
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 of it. But why is that? The supporters of the limiting salaries of overpaid groups of
people
 suspect that the reason for it is that the rich mostly invest only in their own businesses rather than for charity and common benefit. In spite of the fact, that both positions make sense, hardly could I agree with any of them, at
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list
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 in relation to Russia. The majority of really rich
people
 there
is
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 either the corrupted politicians or the oligarchs who support the regime which allows them to keep and grow their wealth. In
such
 a case the government should cut their own and their sponsors’ salaries
that is
 has to be admitted
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.
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