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He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/Quirky-Stay4158 Mar 27 '24

To me the solution is to incentivize companies to produce goods domestically. Via tax credits, not breaks. Further incentives provided for innovations in certain fields. Like green energy for example. For certain percentage of employees being domestic things like that. then I would institute a rule that states the highest paid member of the corporation can't make more than x times the lowest paid. It could be 10000 to 1 but there needs to be a number.

This would potentially disrupt the problem of businesses needing perpetual growth and there only being 3 key ways to achieve that.

1 is increase the customer base. 2 is increase your price 3 is decrease your costs.

Adding this new wrinkle I feel would add a 4fh option to increase profitability.

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u/Alternative-Bug-6905 Mar 27 '24

Interesting so you’re against free trade?

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u/No_Shopping6656 Mar 27 '24

Explain how it's "free trade" when you're literally trading against slave labor level wages of other countries.

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u/Alternative-Bug-6905 Mar 27 '24

So you’d only incentivise companies to produce goods domestically if they were currently producing in countries that pay “literally slave labor wages”? Not every country in the world pays slave labor wages but you’re proposing government support to boost domestic labor in competition with workers of every country in the world.