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Ok, I've read all this. And it's ridiculous, no one will open a business if they make $0. Raise the minimum to something livable like $20 and let them make a few million, probably with hard caps over something like $10+ million profit. They won capitalism, congrats, the rest goes back into the company/taxes. It shouldn't meet exactly the productivity, just better than what we have now.
This idea is fine if you literally just want to survive, but your perfect world would have nothing of joy in it.
lmao lost lib came over here to defend millionaires. So long as there exists people personally tied to property profiting "a few million", they'll have very little to lose to overturn or bypass those "hard caps" to make a few billions. There's no "winning capitalism" if you can still influence politics to unlock more capitalism to win more. People should open businesses to serve their community, not to rule them.
I very much don't support billionaires, but I just don't understand how you'd expect to have anything entertainment-wise in a minimum wage=exact productivity. Microsoft isn't making Xbox from the goodness in their heart.
What would we spend our $33 on? Just our house and food? I'd much rather $20 and be able to go to the movies or restaurants.
Microsoft is a great example because they continuously do dumb shit that puts their workers at risk specifically because the owners are so stinking rich that they'll never face the consequences themselves. They just bought Activision-Blizzard for almost 4 billion dollars (money none of us will ever have) to get the IP of repetitive but profitable games such as CoD and Diablo. Meanwhile their workers get terrible working conditions are run by a serial abuser and in some cases have even been driven to suicide. From most developers I've seen they specifically produce games because they like making games, and yet the existence of millionaire (billionaire in this case) CEOs makes the lives of the developers we both like worse.
As you've said, you'd like $20 to be able to go to the movies and restaurants. But before that both you and the workers of those need to pay the rent, and none of the billionaire profit is going to the people actually making the games you like. That is why making the profit be zero is important, so all resources can be put into both your life as a worker and those of the workers who make shit you like, and not to buy some submarine for Bobby Kotick (unless... 🥺 ). Similarly Bob Iger's riches do nothing to help Disney make Avengers 32: Never-Ending War. Microsoft doesn't do shit, the workers do, and to make Microsoft's execs get more actively detracts from what those workers get.
G*mers, man...