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

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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (20 children)

Semantics. "Max income law"

Any income over $300,000 per year goes to the State to cover programs to eradicate poverty. Easy.

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    Why should I care? There's no inherent reason lotteries deserve to exist. There are several reasons they shouldn't exist.

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    Lotteries are hardly gambling. You're going to loose, statistically

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Statistically, this applies to all other forms of gambling as well. The house almost always wins.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    There are gambling where there is no house

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The 'house' in gambling terms is the establishment in which you are gambling. It's usually not an actual house.

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  • [+] -6 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Ok so then once you hit $300k in income you should stop working? That sounds like a great way to have a shortage of working necessary skilled labor eg surgeons and lawyers who stop working after a few months every year.

    My buddy is a spinal surgeon. He would stop working by May and his area would have no spinal surgeons for more than half the year under your suggestion.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    If those people are actually taking home $300k/year after deducting things like business expenses and student loan payments, then they're either way overpaid or they seriously need a vacation.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    OR they have incredibly niche skills that are extremely hard to obtain and maintain.

    The part that makes me think certain forms of leftism are really foolish is that they count on people not wanting to be compensated for the greater amount of harder work or risks they are willing to take on. People don’t work like that.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    The risk to even get to that level was incredibly high as well. Medical school bills are no joke and you don't know you're going to become some top notch surgeon by the end, you might just wash out and be swimming in debt.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Maybe those skills shouldn't be so incredibly niche, then. Almost like we should be encouraging people to develop them instead of locking them behind a paywall.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    The overwhelming majority of people would not be capable due to their mental acuity and/or ability to engage in fine motor skills. Money isn’t as big of a factor in this case and having less informed and skilled spinal surgeons wouldn’t he a great thing.

    The more intelligent choice is to not set such a low wage cap as it achieves nothing to begin with and addresses no problems.

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