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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by Terr_ on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:08PM (#46010153)
Is that revenue, or profit? If revenue, it'll slam certain kinds of high-volume low-profit businesses, and if it's profit then the company will just arrange to have big compensation "expenses" for executives.

The latter would have to be backstopped by taxes on individual income.

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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by Hikikomori on Friday November 21, 2025 @08:02PM (#46011045)
Set limits so the top cant earn more than x times the lowest paid in the company then.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by steve_b on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:29PM (#46011526)
Companies would then outsource their low-paying jobs to other companies.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by esseph on Friday November 21, 2025 @10:15PM (#46011750)
They already do
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by Hikikomori on Saturday November 22, 2025 @04:20AM (#46013392)
So make that count then.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by octoberfranklin on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:13PM (#46010686)
The sane version of this proposal omits the "exponential" part, applies to profits (net income), and makes the tax rate industry-specific (just like Washington State's revenue tax).
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by silon42 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:26AM (#46012594)
revenue, obviously, but maybe it would scale with employee numbers... if you have lots of employees, you get taxed less.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by thfuran on Saturday November 22, 2025 @02:43AM (#46012938)
So the policy goal is to minimize revenue per employee?
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