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Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by nfw2 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:53PM (#48533211)
You don't have a solution unless you can propose a way this gets legislated and executed. No hand waving. How specifically does this work? Suppose it is day one of my shares being worth more than 100m. What happens?
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by lkjdsklf on Sunday June 14, 2026 @07:10PM (#48534008)
It's pretty easy.

You can just cap total compensation for executives relative to the lowest paid worker and include equity in that calculation. If you want to pay yourself, 10 million a year in stock, great... You need to pay the lowest paid person 10k in stock or whatever.

Or, you can mandate that after a certain size a worker owned trust/union will own some percentage of the company.

There's dozens of ways you could address this problem. Each have pros/cons. It's not that hard to fix if we actually wanted to fix it though.

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by nfw2 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @07:43PM (#48534376)
The founders already have the equity, they aren't receiving more on an ongoing basis.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by lkjdsklf on Sunday June 14, 2026 @11:48PM (#48536385)
We’re not talking about founders. We’re talking about executives.

Executives do get equity as part of their compensation and it’s a huge reason for the massive disparity in wealth.

This is well studied stuff.

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by therealdrag0 on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:24PM (#48544409)
Why are we not talking about founders? They are the most likely to have obscene wealth.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by deaux on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:00AM (#48536810)
You've asked this about 10 times in this thread, I've provided a very straightforward manner elsewhere as a reply to you and am eagerly looking forward on what you come up with to claim that it's impossible.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by nfw2 on Monday June 15, 2026 @11:50AM (#48543071)
> I am eagerly looking forward on what you come up with to claim that it's impossible.

Since you aren't willing to engage in a discussion in good faith, implying whatever I have to say about your 5th-grader-level economic plan to just seize all the shares is bs, I recommend you ask chatgpt why it doesn't work.

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by deaux on Monday June 15, 2026 @11:37PM (#48550268)
My latest reply to you was "Yes.". Might want to feed the thread to chatgpt and ask it if that's "not willing to engage in a discussion in good faith".
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by therealdrag0 on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:35PM (#48544542)
I didn’t say I did have a solution :). There’s value on agreeing or disagreeing that a problem exists without needing a solution. Dismissing a problem based on the viability of a solution is a strange fallacy.