How about we debate the Maximum Wage.
Just saying. When there's a famine, and someone's hoarding silos full of food hoping to get rich on it, it's the job of a society to say "no, you can't fucking do that," seize it, and then feed people.

Money is food. It's medicine, it's housing, it's anything it can buy.
If folks are fed, healthy, and housed, if their kids can go to school and their water is clean, then maybe people can play their speculation games with our economy.

But if not, there's nothing any holier about hoarding money than hoarding medicine during a pandemic.
So, if people are going to debate how much me and everyone I've ever known ACTUALLY need, to live,

How about we do the same?
I mean, $155mil is enough for someone to spend 5k a day, every day, for 85 years, and never earn a cent of interest. Just mattress money.

What's the justification for someone needing MORE than that? https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1176141227063836672?s=20
Maybe it's time for us to introduce some Nintendo logic to the Marketplace of ideas. https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1192459111599706112?s=20
Hoarding vast sums of money defeats the /entire purpose/ of an economy.

It is in the best interest of a society to ensure that value (representing the labor folks put into it) stays moving around. It's a medium of circulation.

Its purpose is to move. https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1350333129567817731?s=20
When a system has an exploit, it's the job of the folks managing that system to patch it.

So. Maximum Wage. Let's debate that, instead of "do poor people deserve electricity."
If you're not down with that, I do have a few other systems I'd be open to. https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1345426835635535872?s=20
We're brainstorming here, folks. No bad ideas. https://twitter.com/SICKOFWOLVES/status/1350542746088456193?s=20
($30, incidentally, isn't a whole lot more than what the minimum wage would be if it were tied to productivity. About 25/hour.

You know. If it were ACTUALLY tied to value.

We are producing more than we ever have, and being paid less and less for it.) https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
(Because every year that inflation goes up, and wages don't rise with it, the actual buying power of those wages fall.)

(The minimum wage was set at $7.25 in 2009. Given inflation, it has FALLEN to $5.97 in 2009 dollars.)

(Try it yourself.) https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2021?endYear=2009&amount=7.25
To clarify - some folks have taken my angry-stomping here as a policy proposal.

The uber-rich do not receive compensation as wages. They often don't even receive it as "money." What they have is Wealth, and any attempt to redress the wealth gap has to target that.
It has to do so internationally - after all, the Panama Papers showed us how comprehensively they're ignoring the laws we already have on the books.

And then they killed the reporter who told us.
It will be done through several instruments, and I'm not an economist, just a shouty man on the bird app.

It might be through tying compensation to a ratio between the highest and lowest paid worker at a company; you'd have to include contractors and subsidiary companies, since/
it would be easy to create an entirely separate corporation for each of the Wal-Mart stores, and still have the Waltons leeching goddamn billions.

Or, like Uber, to make it clear that none of the drivers are actually "employees."
There are things we could do to make the world better, and the first step is Electing people who agree that income and wealth inequality are immediate problems.
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