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      8 days ago

      $20 is socialism and $30 is communism. I’m sure Karl Marx said something like that.

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        Why oh why do we peg it to a number rather than to a metric, even if it were Big Macs ffs!!!

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      They need to base politicians salaries off minimum wage. If they only earned a salary based off 4-5x the minimum wage, that shit would never be lagging as bad as it is now

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        Why 4x minimum wage? How could they represent the poorest people in a country if they make quadruple the money?
        If they cant live with minimum wage, its their problem to solve

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        this only works if they stop them from being able to hold investments in companies, and markets, they pass laws for, as well as getting rid of political donations. If we don’t do that their salary going down would only negatively affect the small number of congress members that want actual change to things.

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          I have a solution, make it legal to kill politicians who hold investments or take bribes. They become outlaw and anything done to them is just the consequences of their actions.

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      7 days ago

      It’s not the already obscenely rich accumulating more wealth to the detriment of everyone else, which is the inevitable consequence of the current system of laissez faire capitalism.

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      7 days ago

      For some reason the quotes around the word free make it seem not satirical to me.