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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by JimBrimble35 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:28PM (#19930971)
_but the billionaire's have MOST of the money_

............ THAT'S THE PROBLEM

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Re:I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit othe... by DuskStar on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:03PM (#19931261)
I'm sorry? This seems rather incoherent. Most income in the US does not in fact go to the 1%. (A greatly disproportionate amount does, of course - about 20% - as expected from an exponential distribution)

And if you're talking about wealth... Well, having all the world's billionares give up their money at once wouldn't have much of a positive impact either. (The 1% in the US - not exactly billionaires, $10,000,000 puts you there - had about 35% of US wealth in 2007)

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