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

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    You don’t have to base it on your own situation, you can base it on cost of living or other objective values.

    There’s a big difference between 1 million and 10 million. With a modest 5% return on investment, 1 million nets you $50,000 per year, which is enough to support a very modest lifestyle in some places (near poverty in others). 10 million with the same investment nets $500,000 per year, which is more than enough to retire to a very luxurious lifestyle and accumulate more wealth along the way.

    And that’s still less than the 14.5 million I proposed, so that person would still not see any wealth tax.