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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by standardUser on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:03AM (#22082866)
In a society with 100 people where 99 make $1/year and 1 makes $1000/year you would have an even more absurd ratio. That ratio may be shocking and useful for political arguments.

But isn't the real issue that 1 person is making a thousand times what everyone else makes? And wouldn't it be truly absurd to expect those 99 to pay more instead of the 1%?

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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by sokoloff on Saturday January 18, 2020 @06:22AM (#22083810)
Not enough information provided to say.

If that 1 person was producing all the food for the other 99, I wouldn't find that to be a problem at all.

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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by lowercased on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:21AM (#22084023)
might be that one person merely owns the IP for the grain the other 99 buy and grow and sell to each other for their food.
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