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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

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Date Created: June 21, 2023

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

1- make by law that the highest paid employee (or contractor) including bonuses and everything cannot earn more than 10 times as the lowest paid

2- tax. Tax income for the lowest incomes at, say, 20% and then let it rise in steps, each step part will be taxed higher, until it hits a point where anything above a certain level is taxed 100%. You earn more than that? Cool you're helping the government a great deal!

3- use all thatoney for universal healthcare, universal housing (if you can't buy a house, you'll get one), universal income. Also infrastructure

While we're at it

4- change political system from "winner takes all" to "each candidate with over 1% of the votes will get exactly that % of power but nobody gets more than 10% of power"

5- companies care size limited. Canoe have more than 1000-1500 employees or they'll be forcibly split

6- redesign cities for people, not cars. All cities should be walkable and cyclable and have great public transportation. Cars won't be prohibited but taxed higher. Nobody in cities wants cars anymore because they don't need them

Cities and the world in general would be NICE!

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (17 children)

If you gave the Ford CEOs income evenly among all the employees, it would be an extra $200 a year.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio isn't a particularly useful metric but it does a good job making people rightfully angry.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reich also went out his way to screw the working class. Citing him just shows someone is citing someone that is saying what they want to hear.

He went out of his way to screw people when he was in power.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In what way did Robert Reich of all people "go out of his way to screw the working class"?

This should be good..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guessing it's this:

Throughout his first year in office, Reich was a leading proponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was negotiated by the George H. W. Bush administration and supported by Clinton following two side agreements negotiated to satisfy labor and environmental groups. Reich served as leading public and private spokesman for the Clinton administration against organized labor, who continued to oppose the Agreement as a whole.

In July 1993, Reich said that the unions were "just plain wrong" to suggest NAFTA would cause a loss of American employment and predicted that "given the pace of growth of the Mexican automobile market over the next 15 years, I would say that more automobile jobs would be created in the United States than would be lost to Mexico... [T]he American automobile industry will grow substantially, and the net effect will be an increase in automobile jobs." He further argued that trade liberalization following World War II had led to the "biggest increase in jobs and standard of living among the industrialized nations [in] history. "[31]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds more like him being wrong and/or lied to by the Clinton administration that was mostly far to the right of him on just about anything than any sort of malice on his part, much less "going out of his way to screw the working class"..

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