I can’t WAIT to VOTE him OUT so we can have a Politician who TAKES all our Tax Dollars for THEMSELVES instead of Spending it on US!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
Personally, I think the implementation of work and money are highly flawed. As it is, we get employers able to perform casual wage theft, employers deciding what pay people should get, said employers getting +500% of an middle manager’s income, stocks and bonds distort the reality of money into something not connected to actual output, and more.
It is my belief that we should create a formal system explictly designed to create and fix expectations for what work pays.
Assuming we toss out existing currency and practices, here is the general shape of what I propose:
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All citizens receive a basic annual Universal Income. $10,000 dollars, no strings attached.
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All people in the nation receive Universal Services. Free food, basic shelter, free fuel and utilities, free electric kei car & bike, basic mattress, free healthcare, and so on. The government gives free basic goods and services to citizens, migrants, and visitors.
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Money is used to pay for upgrading living standards. That means a bigger house, brand-name items, fancier restaurant meals, ect.
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The government has a job department that assesses and posts information for available jobs. The purpose of this department is to ensure that companies cannot create ‘ghost jobs’, ensuring migrants are not being exploited, and so on.
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Jobs replace the Universal Income with an increased income. Each job type falls into a ranked category. The amount of education, difficulty, and risk of the job determines the rank of a job.
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There is a fixed maximum of days and hours worked for workers at each job. Further, workers can only hold one job at a time. This prevents executives from holding numerous positions, prevents part-timing exploits by employers, ensures workers have time for themselves, and makes it easier to fix income levels.
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Leadership roles have their pay rank determined by workers, the workers use voting to decide who has the leadership role, and assign the pay rank. Every 3 months, workers can vote on leadership. If fired or leaving the company, workers retain voting rights for a full year.
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Student education is treated as a job. Depending on grades, they get $10,000 to $20,000 a year. This rewards learning, and prevents students from being drowned by debt.
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Entry level jobs have a fixed income of $40,000 dollars each year. Workers nor employers can change the level of income, that is determined by a government board of labor that regulates the job’s income rank.
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There are four ranks of job income, starting with the entry level: $40k, $60k, $80k, and $100,000. By fixing income levels like this, it makes it harder for employers to commit wage theft, and the overall economy cannot inflate nor deflate much, because there are fewer distortions of income. It is easier for everyone, be it the IRS or a family farm, to assess how much money that people are likely to have on hand.
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Absolute caps on wealth and assets. A citizen has $100,000 for money and owned assets respectively for $200k total, a migrant has $100k total, and non-residents of the land only up to $50k. This means that someone living in Russia can’t hold as much land or the like. Anyone exceeding the caps, have the excess 100% taxed.
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Companies also get caps, based on employee headcount and the income ranks of said employees. Companies that use AI can artificially increase their employee payroll metrics, by paying into an income lotto that is used by government to pay incomes to people whose jobs have been displaced by AI. Companies that exceed their wealth and asset caps, have 100% of the excess taxed.
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Assorted systems to keep corporations and individuals honest. The local and national government assigns rotating book keepers to companies, so that corporations can’t hide their assets or avoid taxation.
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There is more to it all, but that threatens to become a wall of text. Maybe another day, if people are interested in weird nuts and bolts. The important thing, is that we should make it easy to understand the wealth levels that people and companies are supposed to have.
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What is this trash article?
It says 18% raise, but from what to what?
From roughly $250k to roughly $300k. So he will continue making just over $250k.
Wow, thanks. Definitely doesn’t need that much.
Yes and no. People tend to get grumpy about public sector employees making money… But then they simultaneously lament that government is broken and incompetent, because nobody talented wants to work in the public sector. Because why would they, when they can make 5x as much in the private sector?
If you want to attract competent employees, you need to offer competitive rates. Otherwise, you’re asking people to actively sacrifice their own livelihoods. I agree that $250k is plenty in most places, but I also haven’t done the math to see if that is a decent salary for NYC.
If anything, the government paying decent rates will incentivize the private sector to match it as well, which helps every employee. The same way minimum wage is a major market push for increased wages across the board.
I dunno, maybe we need to amend Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.
This guy would make a genuinely fucking amazing POTUS.
To be clear, these raises aren’t a bad thing. Mamdani just recognizes he as an individual doesn’t need one.
If Mamdani signs the bill, it would mark the first City Council raise since 2016.
The pay raises were recommended by a commission appointed by Mamdani earlier this year.
In fact, it is dangerous to pay politicians too little. When a person has power but the pay is too little, that person has a strong incentive to make up the difference through corruption.
Good thing then Americans voted for an incorruptible billionaire for president.
Sorry for the snark. It’s of course accurate that it’s easier to bribe people when they make little money through honest means.
In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.
Or we could try more strict anti-corruption checks and balances with real, tangible consequences.
Yes that is how you get to modern US pre-Trump. There’s still corruption, it’s more hidden, and managed enough that the less marginalized middle/upper class have relative safety/stability. Compare that to the other large economies, it was doing retty well for its size, and certainly much better than centuries past.
@Soleos @Phil_in_here It was weird when Joe won. I saw a shadow govt going on (the maggot mafia) while Joe and dems won … No clue what the shadow govt was doing but continuing the coup they all started.
That’s not a shadow government, that’s just government. They weren’t even trying to be subtle about it.
@Soleos I didn’t know. I just knew it was happening simultaneously and didn’t hear anything about it from Biden’s WH. Thanks much.
I feel that’s more a lack of accountability problem than low pay problem.
It’s both.
I used to be close family friends with a man who is now a Congressman. He was my air conditioning repairman when I was little, and when he moved to DC without the wealth many other politicians had, he had a hard time paying for things like having houses in DC and back in the district.
He ended up doing little favors here and there to help pay rent, and it was a slippery slope to him becoming super corrupt.
We no longer speak.
There should just be housing in DC for these people. Little apartments to stay at.
Something like that might be necessary if we ever get a chance to uncap the house.
“I just haven’t knocked on anyone’s door in New York City and they’ve said their concern is that the mayor makes too little,” Mamdani said.
Common Mamdani W
What if I don’t want to travel diagonally across a street?
Uh, he’s Muslim, not Catholic
Why is this guy so great???
He is exactly what this country needs right now. We need more progressives to follow in his steps. Maybe one state at a time we can make this place NOT a shithole anymore.
I wouldn’t call him great.
What he’s doing is what should be normal. It just seems great because all our politicians are so awful.
He is just doing things a lot of people would do if they weren’t easily corrupted by money
No sphaghet. Can’t show a child noodles. Or to clean a skillet or a wok. Or to clean an amulet
It’s because he’s not American. Americans are selfish, planet destroying assholes.
Wealthy Americans are selfish, planet destroying assholes.
He’s as American as any other citizen
Also lol @ you trying to be so edgy.
They’re not entirely off the mark though. Native-born Americans are pretty spoiled and complacent, on average. Immigrants, even kids, tend to have more of a sense of context and a sort of hustle mentality. My wife’s an immigrant and we’ve talked at length about it.
You’re right that he’s as American as any other citizen in ways that matter, but born-and-raised Americans are more likely to get swept up in our bread and circuses.
hes not and no hes not, we need real socialists not fake leftist plants meant to relieve some pressure against capitalism to keep it going for another 30 years 😒
raises taxes on the rich
“Look at this FAKE LEFTISM”
Dafuk
Tankies like the no true Scotsman
If fake leftism gets me real leftist policies, then I’ll take fake leftism so that I can stop worrying about how I’m going to just live each month. Then I can worry about the next 30 years. Glad you’re in such a comfortable and presumably wealthy spot in your life that you get to be upset about good things happening to people
Run for office, bud.
As if tankies did anything in real life
You have never accomplished anything
Now now, that’s not fair. They chose a username that makes them think about advocating for trains every now and then, and while that’s not something, that’s not not something neither.
Pick up your guns then, if you want to have your socialist revolution.
CIA plant
Alhumdullilah how could anyone hate this guy. The hope of America is a Muslim socialist.
On WABC (AM 770 in my area) they literally tried to put a negative spin on this! Apparently, since he’s already a millionaire, he doesn’t need it! Evil guy! They even played the clip of him talking about going door to door and no one told him they’re concerned the mayor doesn’t make enough. Beyond fucking delusional. I turn that shit on when I’m looking for maximum and immediate cognitive dissonance.
This guy is a goddamn angel.
hehe yyyeahhh…for the anti-communism forces
Oh I was about to reply in earnest about how fucking retarded that statement is but I spotted the .ml just in time and saved us both the trouble. My condolences.
I know a lot of wonderful individuals who deserve the dignity of not having that slur used in common parlance and also not having their disabilities being compared to .ml users. The .ml guys are almost universally bad people and they are not.
Well we’re probably thinking of different words then.
Having disabilities, disease, cognitive challenges or neurological differences, has nothing to do with being retarded. That’s reserved for the willful stupidity, authoritarians, and otherwise those politically active while being divorced from reality.
It was the official designation for intellectual disability in the icd 9. While the icd 10 was released in 1993 America didn’t fully transition to icd 10 until like 2014-2015. Aside from the clinical aspect anyone whos older than like 11 years old and speaks English is very aware that word is used to disparage someone’s opinion by comparing them to the intellectually disabled.
You can decide to ignore that very real and very recent history to assuage your guilt for saying slurs but it doesn’t change the fact that you’re saying slurs and doubling down because you can’t stand being called out for talking like a 13 year old call of duty player
Yes, I will happily continue to misuse slurs. But thanks for the history lesson. I also call myself an “idiot” and “moron” with some frequency, so if that’s indeed how language works then I suppose I may have some claim to the slur…
However, I don’t think linguistics works like that. Perhaps you learned nothing from the endless cycle of prescriptive rebranding, but many others have. I find much personal utility in these sorts of words, with very directed usage and now even my explicitly declared intent.
If you or anyone else was offended or personally hurt by an (obviously understandable) misunderstanding, then I wish to make it very clear that I sincerely apologize for any undue harm, as my intended target was not you and I wasn’t using the same word you’re thinking of. But if you wish to stubbornly continue to take something else from them other than what I mean, and after I’ve elaborated on what I meant,… then that’s not really my problem anymore. After that, you’re not really “calling me out” so much as just being wrong
Okay then say the n word. By your rationale if your intent is not to disparage a racial minority and instead to utilize a personal utility that continues to define it as a disparagement but wink wink doesn’t count as a slur then it’s fine, right?
The point is you can describe your “intent” all you want but that doesn’t change the fact that these words are regularly used as pejorative slurs to disparage an entire class. Prescriptive rebranding takes generations to shift and doesn’t even work all the time (eg mongoloid) unless you do mental gymnastics to ignore the harm you’re doing, like you are
I just call them low IQ individuals instead because I bet most of them like to brag about having a high one.
I upvoted you because I felt bad about how many downvotes you have.
Psyche, I downvoted you.
The .ml cult nets another L.
Based
Guy knows how to do the populist thing.
Literally incapable of accepting anything but shitty behaviour huh?
Donald Trump has done similar things. It’s just something populists do, doesn’t really indicate anything about the person other than then being a populist.
People too lazy to discuss actual policies will always point to these kinds of actions as proof that their guy is a good person. That’s why populists do these things. Because populists think their base is dumb and will eat this shit up. And they’re often right.
Donald Trump has done similar things.
Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that’s totally similar to turning down a raise.
No, like turning down a pay check:
Like I say, the people that support him point to things like this and ignore all of the many many criticisms of him. He probably took the money anyway, a populist only needs to say they’re turning down money, it gets some headlines that supporters will link to those and it doesn’t matter if it actually happens.
This is just how populism works. You’re upset when your guy gets called out for bullshit populism while at the same time thinking some other guy is being bullshit when they do bullshit populism. Even when it’s the same action. Populism is all about increasing the popularity of the person, while ignoring policies. It’s just “my guy good, other guy bad.”
@SpaceCowboy @ChickenLadyLovesLife I understand completely what you’re saying. He’s still an asshole with the stupidiest maggots ignoring his crimes. Their asshole ignoring democratic laws, is a pedo, hates women, and loves brutal dicts (thanks, miller and vought).
I have no problem with him getting a raise, he deserves it. Could have made a whole lot more money being corrupt
I like this guy but why would they give im so many easy dunks
Why is there a small blur circle over his chin and tie?
The play button?
All I see is a blur, but perhaps the play button requires JavaScript. Without it, the bare photo just looks like they tried to censor his chin
Yep it’s the play button, the site is just developed poorly tho, it had this blur that became a play button the moment i clicked on it (and still didn’t made the video play)
