To follow up with my previous articles on this subject, I want to present my idea for "redistributing" wealth--even though it isn't "re-" distribution because I don't think it would be fair in any way to take away the wealth of someone who has already accumulated it.
What I do think is fair, is placing limits on how much an individual can earn in proportion to other people who aid in the production of that wealth.
For instance, McDonald's CEO earned 3,101 times that of the median employee, 1.2M times for Amazon's Jeff Bezos. --These numbers are preposterous.
I'm not opposed to the leader and financer making a large profit, but even pirates shared the wealth equally among themselves--this is worse than piracy, this is robbery.
Full disclosure: I invest in the stock market and believe in the American Dream. I believe in retirement by riding off of and taking part in the American Economy. However, I've been in the sorry situation before where my wages didn't cover my expenses. I think they call that underemployment, where you earn some money but it's not enough and you need to make more to keep on living. --Honestly, I don't know how I survived and now that I'm away from it and I have various mental and physical benefits from not having that stress in my life, I think I should turn back and say that this disproportionate distribution of wealth is not sustainable nor is it ethical.
My suggestion is that we place limits on the amount of money anyone can make on the backs of another human being. That includes the stock market, though I don't know how to make that work logistically speaking. If you invest money into a company and you make say 1000X or more what that company's median salary is, you should be required to pay (all or part of) the taxes of those individuals who earn less than that median salary.
So if you invest in McDonalds and you report earning more than $10/hr, you should be required to pay from your profit (say if the value of the stocks went up by $1,000 in the year) You should be required to pay the tax bracket rate that they get paid--in this case they are paid $10/hr which falls in %12 range, so you pay $120 divided by all of those employees (which comes down to like 1 cent per person).
But that one cent per person times the total number of people who gained $1000 off of the growth of McDonalds, plus all the Officers and personal investors who own the company, these indivduals could actually take home money (yes, I'm saying that they should be paid more than just their taxes, but I'd settle on them being paid just all of their taxes, which does amount to a significant portion of their salary.
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