• whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year

    Just restating some of the greatest hits:

    1. Universal healthcare

    2. Universal education through university level or trade school

    3. At least a month pto annually

    4. Parental leave for births

    5. Guaranteed sick leave

    6. 32hr new full time threshold before overtime

    7. Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes

    8. Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation

    9. No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed

    Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/

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      I’d recommend a longer full time week. If the full time week is too short, many people well rely on overtime for their salary. This completely destroys the benefits of some of your other points, since you can’t do overtime during vacations, parental leave, sick leave, etc. Overtime should not be the norm if you want a good social/financial security.

      Edit: part time job should of course always be possible if your revenue allows you to work shorter weeks

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        17 hours ago

        Campaign finance reform under 7 would allow further reforms to follow, without those regulatory capture and bribery are legal and prevent any other electoral reforms benefiting the working class.

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      @ #9; Whoa there. 100% is unreasonable. Still there’s room to start at a hard 90% at about 250 million and then incrementally scale until the tax is say, about 95-97% by about a billion.

      Unfortunately you cannot tax anyone 100%; that would ultimately be unfair and demotivating and only motivate corruption to avoid the tax

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        It’s progressive. You’re still allowed to have a billion. That’s just a cap. Anything past that goes to the public.

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          14 hours ago

          You’re still allowed to have a billion

          Why? Why do you feel the need to hold on to this “aspiration”?

          You will never become a billionaire, stop defending your exploiters.

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          15 hours ago

          Makes perfect sense. It’s like having $999,999,999.99 in a management game.

          It doesn’t go above that, but if you buy a ton of assets and set them down, it’ll probably climb right back up there to the limit again at some point.

          You still have a billion bucks to do whatever with.

          Although yeah, businesses routinely buy things for billions (like acquiring Minecraft? Hah) So they’d find some clever way of putting it all in some kind of “company trust” or something, so they don’t have it as an individual.

          But I’m no lawyer. I still think having it on the books would be better than not, if it went to healthcare and education instead of funneling into the defense industry, that is…