DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoMost of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, whmessage-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1324arrow-down111
arrow-up1313arrow-down1message-squareMost of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, whDandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 hours agoThe bourgeoisie do not receive a wage. They receive our wages in the form of profit. If a maximum wage was introduced in the current system it would be made to benefit the bourgeois as they are the ones writing our laws.
minus-squareHaiZhung@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoWe need a wealth tax, is what you want to say. Tax wealth not work.
minus-squareveni_vedi_veni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-26 hours agoThey don’t get wealth from labor, it’s all about owning the shit that gets them wealth. And even then, they don’t sell it to buy things, they use it as leverage to spend the banks’ money. So it’s really about taxing more dividends, and any loans gained from leveraging assets.
We need a maximum wage
The bourgeoisie do not receive a wage. They receive our wages in the form of profit. If a maximum wage was introduced in the current system it would be made to benefit the bourgeois as they are the ones writing our laws.
We need a wealth tax, is what you want to say. Tax wealth not work.
They don’t get wealth from labor, it’s all about owning the shit that gets them wealth.
And even then, they don’t sell it to buy things, they use it as leverage to spend the banks’ money.
So it’s really about taxing more dividends, and any loans gained from leveraging assets.