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[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

How the fuck is a higher minimum wage anything but our current system?

I’m not convinced it’s not satire

[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago

$20 is socialism and $30 is communism. I'm sure Karl Marx said something like that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Why oh why do we peg it to a number rather than to a metric, even if it were Big Macs ffs??????!

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

They need to base politicians salaries off minimum wage. If they only earned a salary based off 4-5x the minimum wage, that shit would never be lagging as bad as it is now

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this only works if they stop them from being able to hold investments in companies, and markets, they pass laws for, as well as getting rid of political donations. If we don't do that their salary going down would only negatively affect the small number of congress members that want actual change to things.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have a solution, make it legal to kill politicians who hold investments or take bribes. They become outlaw and anything done to them is just the consequences of their actions.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Why 4x minimum wage? How could they represent the poorest people in a country if they make quadruple the money?
If they cant live with minimum wage, its their problem to solve

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's [supposed to be] a demanding position. Relative to the skills we should be demanding these people to have, the pay they currently get is actually not that impressive.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

4 times as demanding sounds kinda funny. 254000× or whatever sounds like religious fairy tales. To the guillotines.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Wtf are you talking about? Congress's salary is only ~178k.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Congress is the 4. Private sector is the ∞.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

No one in this thread had mentioned private sector. Try to stay on topic.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I just mentioned it. Thanks anyway!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's not the already obscenely rich accumulating more wealth to the detriment of everyone else, which is the inevitable consequence of the current system of laissez faire capitalism.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For some reason the quotes around the word free make it seem not satirical to me.

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