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Re:Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap by Convolutional on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:45PM (#35925302)
> our economy which has gotten more and more efficient, and reward a few hundred thousands (or millions) of people who happen to be able to produce disproportionately more things

And where do the heirs expropriating surplus labor time from those of us who work fit into this constellation of efficient people able to produce more? Where does the aristocracy of the Rockefeller/Vanderbilt/Hearst/Mellon dynasties come into this inequality picture?

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Re:Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap by gruez on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:46AM (#35925627)
That's not as contradictory as you think. Having an inheritance tax neatly solves the issue you raise without having to alter the parent's proposition.
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Re:Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap by supernova87a on Saturday May 13, 2023 @01:36AM (#35925901)
Who are these aristocrats running these companies that dominate your belief in what the problem is?

Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Carl McMillon (Walmart), Jamie Dimon, John Stanken (AT&T), John Hammergren (McKesson), just to take a random sampling of top companies going down the list. I find that they're all from non-rich dynasty beginnings.

So do we go making policies based on your stories about children of robber barons?

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