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In reply to the discussion: Why dislike the super rich? Envious? Jealous? That's what they think. [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)There ought to be a minimum wage and a minimum wealth, and taxes ought to be such that nobody enjoys more than twenty times that income or wealth.
Minimum wage $10 an hour, maximum wage $200 an hour. Minimum wealth a cot and a locker, maximum wealth twenty times that space.
You see how this works...
If the CEO of a company wants to own a big fat penthouse suite and be driven around in a limo, the lowest paid employees get comfortable suites in the same building, park their own utilitarian cars in the same garage, and ride the same elevator.
In this scenario those prone to hoarding wealth have a very strong incentive to make sure their own good fortune really does "trickle down."
The game playing stops. Everyone's kids go to the same schools, everyone shops in the same places, and everyone's lives are "real." Nobody exists in an insulated "bubble" of wealth.
What's that you say? It takes away "incentive???" Nonsense. Anyone who would pay an employee starvation wages while traveling through life first class is up to no good or has been corrupted by the system.
I can't respect that. They are all Justin Biebers, but worse, because they are not stupid kids.