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slightlv

(6,635 posts)
5. I know this is anathema... almost heresy... to say in this country,
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:29 PM
1 hr ago

but I think we should mandate a livable minimum wage and a liveable maximum wage. We used to do this through the progressive tax rates. It's a concept whose time has come back around again, exponentially. I don't want to thwart creativity, but really intelligent and/or creative people don't need to make such enormous sums of money (when stacked against their employees), like the people on the level of Musk, Theil, and others do today. The accomplishment and betterment of humanity should be the ultimate goal, not trillions of dollars, while everyone around them starves. I guess that's why I always wanted to live in a Star Trek world. (sigh)

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