With wealth inequality and billionaire control over American society growing ever more obscene, it’s well past time to implement a maximum wage limit.

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    I think that there should be fixed levels of income from jobs, alongside universal benefits and a ceiling on wealth and assets. Personal wealth should have a hard cap, while businesses have their cap determined by employee head count. There can also be an UBI income lotto funded by companies, which allows them to increases their wealth cap - effectively allowing them to healthily grow as reliance on AI increases. People who had jobs displaced by AI get access to the income lotto first, followed by the disabled.

    Education shouldn’t just be free, it should be treated as job, paying people according to their grades. This encourages people to focus on their studies and a healthy work/life balance, instead of having to constantly juggling a meeting ends gig.

    We have centuries of inherited rot from capitalistic practices, it would take a radical restructuring to make things fair. Similar to the Constitution and Magna Carta, where principles and rules are laid out to prevent absolute monarchy. Billionaires are the kings of our time, so we should have an economic ruleset designed from the outset to prevent their existence.

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        10 days ago

        Burger flipper: “I get paid better for having done excellent work?!”

        Manager: “Here is your bonus.” passes a pink slip

        Burger flipper: 😩

        THAT is our reality. Employers tend to toss out veteran employees onto their ass, just for daring to ask for raises that can’t keep up with the economy. We got people who have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet, through no fault of their own.

        Employers shouldn’t set the worth and requirements of jobs, else they will abuse people by making bullshit demands.