There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? : workreform

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 27 points 21 hours ago

because the people in the top end are paid via stocks and not actual hard currency.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

In the mean time, decorate some pikes with billionaire noggins. The problem might fix itself if extreme wealth becomes a mortal liability.

Trickle-down economics works like a piñata - you gotta crack it open before anything starts to trickle.

[+] Fl4k@discuss.tchncs.de -15 points 8 hours ago

personally i absolutely support billionaires if you remove the actual issues like them being able to lobby and remove legal forms of tax evasion so that the country is benefitted more, especially when they are creative(ish) like elon and do stuff actually beneficial to humanity like space programs (may be wrong but i believe hearing news abt him making that and running it), and honestly it would be great if more billionaires focused on space exploration as well as the governments, its just the next step in mankind tbh

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 7 hours ago

You dropped these bootstraps, bootlicker

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I just want to start off by saying that your opinion is valid and it's not even necessarily wrong. So don't listen to anybody trying to disparage you on this.

If we are to allow billionaires to exist, they should take considerably more responsibility for the power that they wield and they of course should be taxed fairly in accordance to their income.

Also, lobbying should just be downright illegal. Which it is borderline is anyway.

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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 14 points 21 hours ago

Tax rates used to extend over 100% in the USA. The IRS lost the case. They were limited to all of the money earned, not more.

So there used to ba maximum wage.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 0 points 21 hours ago

The Hamster from The Hamster Dance 2.0 makes maximum wage

My favourite line from the song.

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