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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by firecall on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:12AM (#37021546)
No, we need to fix the mechanisms that have allowed so much wealth to accrued by individuals.

Companies need to be taxed correctly. They need to give back to the societies that built the social structures that allowed them to be created and thrive.

Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by mathverse on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:33AM (#37021735)
I would somehow tax inactive capital. Capital that is not directly invested in a company or pays for employees. Everything laying around or on the stock market should be heavily taxed.
Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:19AM (#37022894)
That doesn't change the ownership problem. This solution could still allow for a a handful of people to own everything because they would be invested in, and therefore have ownership of, all of the companies.
Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by satvikpendem on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:23PM (#37026233)
The stock market is for directly investing in companies...
Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by Aerbil313 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:12PM (#37027433)
Islam bans stock markets and interest (though not all current so-called muslim countries) and every person who is rich (who have more than 87 grams of gold worth of things) is obliged to donate %2.5 of their total wealth to the poor every year. In Muslim countries, the state collects and distributes this, so it's effectively a tax. Necessities of life (shelter etc.) are excluded from total value calculation. Muslim countries traditionally took away land of people who didn't utilize it for 3 consecutive years, though idk whether this is rooted in the religion itself.
Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by dizhn on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:35PM (#37028531)
That's probably state land and regular people are not allowed to own land. If they don't work it, it gets transferred to someone else.
Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by Aerbil313 on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:27AM (#37033019)
Yeah, right iirc.