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  • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I see your point. Please elaborate on no minimum wage though. Wouldnt that just mean a business owner could get away with paying someone say a penny per hour? I do agree on max wage though. Maybe a 5x what your lowest paid worker gets? So if your lowest paid worker got $20k/year the max the CEO could make would be $100k. If they want more then thats fine once they raise their minimum pay from $20k to something higher they can have more.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yes but it would be combined with guaranteed fulfillment of basic necessities for members of society. No one would be homeless unless they chose to be. No one should starve unless they chose to starve or everyone starved. No one’s labor would be worth hundreds to thousands to millions of times more than anyone else’s labor. And no one should be forced into debt slavery to survive.

      We will only truly have liberty if we can actually choose to “work” at all. And not just have the illusionary perception that we have any say of who we work for.

      Outside of all that, someone could absolutely try to entice someone to work for pennies an hour. They shouldn’t be entitled to much more themselves however. And would be unable to effectively force someone to accept such compensation if they didn’t see it as fair. So more power to them.