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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty (medium.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by theHRguy to c/workreform

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If we switched to eating billionaires instead of eating beef for one day that would solve world hunger indefinitely, food for thought

[–] Illuminostro 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of veal, so eat their children first.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Dark.

Just the way I like my baby meat.

[–] disguy_ovahea 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

You do realize that their money doesn’t go back into the economy when they die, right? They have living wills. It just makes someone else a billionaire. It’s not like you can kill a billionaire and all their money spews out like Sonic the Hedgehog’s rings.

[–] Jerkface 22 points 3 weeks ago

You just keep eating the heirs until it all 'trickles down', you see.

[–] Lennnny 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds to me like it's a well stocked food supply then.

[–] disguy_ovahea 0 points 3 weeks ago

Or it’s a funny thing to write that distracts us from actionable solutions.

[–] taiyang 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure the contingency is eating the inheritors until no one is left. It's billionaires all the way down!

[–] RageAgainstTheRich 8 points 3 weeks ago

Don't worry. We'll make it a "Family Dinner" 🤫🔪

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Billionaire day repeats anytime someone crosses over the threshold

[–] some_designer_dude 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don’t eat them to liberate their money. You eat them to show others of their kind what happens to those who hoard wealth away from the needy.

[–] disguy_ovahea 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And that compels their peers to be charitable to the murderous cannibals how?

[–] Apollo42 4 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps a slight aversion to being the 2nd course.