You can't put an exact value on nonexclusive public goods like....fire service coverage, or military protection. Or hell, even infrastructure considering that it's not a matter of how much you personally drive.
There is very little that the government does that you don't derive at least incidental benefit from.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
* Buy all the gold and precious metals, at any cost.
* Secure purchased precious metals on our soil behind our best defenses, in intricately secure stations, possibly even confidential ones.
* Declare all money of no value.
* Print new money that has value backed by precious metals. Actually trade precious metals on occasion to restore consumer confidence.
* Buy world, everyone not on our soil serves us.
But... why ? You think that anyone working any job, no matter how meaningless, should be making enough money to live comfortably ? That's not how the world works.
What you can try to do is give everyone an equal start in life by providing education. But some people will always choose to be on the bottom of society and they will always stay there.
- The more money you make, the more money you pay in to the society you live in. You don't need billions.
That's it.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
But if the wage of everyone is limited by that x20 rule, then nobody will have the money to invest. It's almost like you don't think about what you are suggesting.
Again, do you think that the wage of Bill Gates should be 20 times the wage of the person who cleans the toilets at Microsoft ? Why ?
honestly? cause it'll give them a proper incentive to take proper care of their employees. They want to get extremely rich? do it with your people not at their expense. You can debate whether the number should be 20 or 30 or 100, but in principle such a rule would benefit society as a whole.
and please lets not pretend bill gates paid himself 100x more then his employees when microsoft was a startup. this would only affect established companies. lets also not pretend bill gates started microsoft thinking "if i dont make at least $100 billion of this for my own pockets, why even bother?"
Last edited by mmoc982b0e8df8; 2017-07-17 at 09:07 AM.
a) Nobody gets "crushed" making only 20X as much as the lowest paid person in the company. Only the top 1% of people even make enough money for that to even be a possibility.
b) The economy won't collapse...likely the opposite would occur. It's the middle class that drives the economy...not the ultra rich.
c) Innovation does not rely solely on billionaires.
d) Lots of innovators were low paid wage slaves when they came up with their innovations.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
Im guessing the people asking for UBI just want to smoke weed and play video games all day. Its going to be needed at some point, but that point is at least a generation or two away.