Personally, I think the implementation of work and money are highly flawed. As it is, we get employers able to perform casual wage theft, employers deciding what pay people should get, said employers getting +500% of an middle manager’s income, stocks and bonds distort the reality of money into something not connected to actual output, and more.
It is my belief that we should create a formal system explictly designed to create and fix expectations for what work pays.
Assuming we toss out existing currency and practices, here is the general shape of what I propose:
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All citizens receive a basic annual Universal Income. $10,000 dollars, no strings attached.
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All people in the nation receive Universal Serivces. Free food, basic shelter, free fuel and utilities, free electric kei car & bike, basic mattress, free healthcare, and so on. The government gives free basic goods and services to both citizens, migrants, and visitors.
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Money is used to pay for upgrading living standards. That means a bigger house, brand-name items, fancier restruant meals, ect.
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The government has a job department that assesses and posts information for available jobs. The purpose of this department is to ensure that companies cannot create ‘ghost jobs’, ensuring migrants are not being exploited, and so on.
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Jobs replace the Universal Income with an increased income. Each job type falls into a ranked category. The amount of education, difficulty, and risk of the job determines the rank of a job.
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There is a fixed maximum of days and hours worked for workers at each job. Further, workers can only hold one job at a time. This prevents executives from holding numerous positions, prevents part-timing exploits by employers, ensures workers have time for themselves, and makes it easier to fix income levels.
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Leadership roles have their pay rank determined by workers, the workers use voting to decide who has the leadership role, and assign the pay rank. Every 3 months, workers can vote on leadership. If fired or leaving the company, workers retain voting rights for a full year.
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Student education is treated as a job. Depending on grades, they get $10,000 to $20,000 a year. This rewards learning, and prevents students from being drowned by debt.
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Entry level jobs have a fixed income of $40,000 dollars each year. Workers nor employers can change the level of income, that is determined by a government board of labor that regulates the job’s income rank.
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There are four ranks of job income, starting with the entry level: $40k, $60k, $80k, and $100,000. By fixing income levels like this, it makes it harder for employers to commit wage theft, and the overall economy cannot inflate nor deflate much, because there are fewer distortions of income. It is easier for everyone, be it the IRS or a family farm, to assess how much money that people are likely to have on hand.
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Absolute caps on wealth and assets. A citizen has $100,000 for money and owned assets respectively for $200k total, a migrant has $100k total, and non-residents of the land only up to $50k. This means that someone living in Russia can’t hold as much land or the like.
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Companies also get caps, based on employee headcount and the income ranks of said employees. Companies that use AI can artificially increase their employee payroll metrics, by paying into an income lotto that is used by government to pay incomes to people whose jobs have been displaced by AI.
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Assorted systems to keep corporations and individuals honest. The local and national government assigns rotating book keepers to companies, so that corporations can’t hide their assets or avoid taxation.
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There is more to it all, but that threatens to become a wall of text. Maybe another day, if people are interested in weird nuts and bolts. The important thing, is that we should make it easy to understand the wealth levels that people and companies are supposed to have.
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I can’t WAIT to VOTE him OUT so we can have a Politician who TAKES all our Tax Dollars for THEMSELVES instead of Spending it on US!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
Those morons probably are posting how Trump takes no salary at all!
Meanwhile his networth has gone up by 2 billion during his presidency…
But that’s too many dots for the smoothbrains to connect
Fraudulent money is the first dot, second dot is Trump’s bank account, but however will they connect them when they don’t have a pen
What is this trash article?
It says 18% raise, but from what to what?
From roughly $250k to roughly $300k. So he will continue making just over $250k.
Wow, thanks. Definitely doesn’t need that much.
Yes and no. People tend to get grumpy about public sector employees making money… But then they simultaneously lament that government is broken and incompetent, because nobody talented wants to work in the public sector. Because why would they, when they can make 5x as much in the private sector?
If you want to attract competent employees, you need to offer competitive rates. Otherwise, you’re asking people to actively sacrifice their own livelihoods. I agree that $250k is plenty in most places, but I also haven’t done the math to see if that is a decent salary for NYC.
If anything, the government paying decent rates will incentivize the private sector to match it as well, which helps every employee. The same way minimum wage is a major market push for increased wages across the board.
Why is there a small blur circle over his chin and tie?
The play button?
All I see is a blur, but perhaps the play button requires JavaScript. Without it, the bare photo just looks like they tried to censor his chin
Yep it’s the play button, the site is just developed poorly tho, it had this blur that became a play button the moment i clicked on it (and still didn’t made the video play)
I dunno, maybe we need to amend Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.
This guy would make a genuinely fucking amazing POTUS.
To be clear, these raises aren’t a bad thing. Mamdani just recognizes he as an individual doesn’t need one.
If Mamdani signs the bill, it would mark the first City Council raise since 2016.
The pay raises were recommended by a commission appointed by Mamdani earlier this year.
In fact, it is dangerous to pay politicians too little. When a person has power but the pay is too little, that person has a strong incentive to make up the difference through corruption.
In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.
Or we could try more strict anti-corruption checks and balances with real, tangible consequences.
Yes that is how you get to modern US pre-Trump. There’s still corruption, it’s more hidden, and managed enough that the less marginalized middle/upper class have relative safety/stability. Compare that to the other large economies, it was doing retty well for its size, and certainly much better than centuries past.
@Soleos @Phil_in_here It was weird when Joe won. I saw a shadow govt going on (the maggot mafia) while Joe and dems won … No clue what the shadow govt was doing but continuing the coup they all started.
That’s not a shadow government, that’s just government. They weren’t even trying to be subtle about it.
Good thing then Americans voted for an incorruptible billionaire for president.
Sorry for the snark. It’s of course accurate that it’s easier to bribe people when they make little money through honest means.
I feel that’s more a lack of accountability problem than low pay problem.
It’s both.
I used to be close family friends with a man who is now a Congressman. He was my air conditioning repairman when I was little, and when he moved to DC without the wealth many other politicians had, he had a hard time paying for things like having houses in DC and back in the district.
He ended up doing little favors here and there to help pay rent, and it was a slippery slope to him bec9ming super corrupt.
We no longer speak.
There should just be housing in DC for these people. Little apartments to stay at.
Something like that might be necessary if we ever get a chance to uncap the house.
Alhumdullilah how could anyone hate this guy. The hope of America is a Muslim socialist.
Based
Guy knows how to do the populist thing.
Literally incapable of accepting anything but shitty behaviour huh?
Donald Trump has done similar things. It’s just something populists do, doesn’t really indicate anything about the person other than then being a populist.
People too lazy to discuss actual policies will always point to these kinds of actions as proof that their guy is a good person. That’s why populists do these things. Because populists think their base is dumb and will eat this shit up. And they’re often right.
Donald Trump has done similar things.
Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that’s totally similar to turning down a raise.
No, like turning down a pay check:
Like I say, the people that support him point to things like this and ignore all of the many many criticisms of him. He probably took the money anyway, a populist only needs to say they’re turning down money, it gets some headlines that supporters will link to those and it doesn’t matter if it actually happens.
This is just how populism works. You’re upset when your guy gets called out for bullshit populism while at the same time thinking some other guy is being bullshit when they do bullshit populism. Even when it’s the same action. Populism is all about increasing the popularity of the person, while ignoring policies. It’s just “my guy good, other guy bad.”
@SpaceCowboy @ChickenLadyLovesLife I understand completely what you’re saying. He’s still an asshole with the stupidiest maggots ignoring his crimes. Their asshole ignoring democratic laws, is a pedo, hates women, and loves brutal dicts (thanks, miller and vought).
Okay so whats he gonna do? They won’t take it back and they can’t legally rewrite his check with a different amount.
Donate the raise to charities.
Sounds like acceptance to me
Tbf you need to be WAY more rich before tax cuts from charity earn you profit.
Hang on, are you insinuating he is also running the charities? Because thats kind of a red flag.
I didn’t insinuate that tho…
Then it is completely off topic to mention who might profit from a charity.
I understood that to mean Jankatarch understood you to be insinuating that. That J thought you were saying Mamdani would cycle the money through charities he owns, rather than taking the money and donating the raise amount to charities (which I assume you meant?)
I have no problem with him getting a raise, he deserves it. Could have made a whole lot more money being corrupt
On WABC (AM 770 in my area) they literally tried to put a negative spin on this! Apparently, since he’s already a millionaire, he doesn’t need it! Evil guy! They even played the clip of him talking about going door to door and no one told him they’re concerned the mayor doesn’t make enough. Beyond fucking delusional. I turn that shit on when I’m looking for maximum and immediate cognitive dissonance.
I like this guy but why would they give im so many easy dunks
Why is this guy so great???
He is exactly what this country needs right now. We need more progressives to follow in his steps. Maybe one state at a time we can make this place NOT a shithole anymore.
I wouldn’t call him great.
What he’s doing is what should be normal. It just seems great because all our politicians are so awful.
It’s because he’s not American. Americans are selfish, planet destroying assholes.
Wealthy Americans are selfish, planet destroying assholes.
He’s as American as any other citizen
Also lol @ you trying to be so edgy.
They’re not entirely off the mark though. Native-born Americans are pretty spoiled and complacent, on average. Immigrants, even kids, tend to have more of a sense of context and a sort of hustle mentality. My wife’s an immigrant and we’ve talked at length about it.
You’re right that he’s as American as any other citizen in ways that matter, but born-and-raised Americans are more likely to get swept up in our bread and circuses.
No sphaghet. Can’t show a child noodles. Or to clean a skillet or a wok. Or to clean an amulet
He is just doing things a lot of people would do if they weren’t easily corrupted by money
hes not and no hes not, we need real communists not fake leftist plants meant to relieve some pressure against capitalism to keep it going for another 30 years 😒
Pick up your guns then, if you want to have your socialist revolution.
CIA plant
You have never accomplished anything
Now now, that’s not fair. They chose a username that makes them think about advocating for trains every now and then, and while that’s not something, that’s not not something neither.
If fake leftism gets me real leftist policies, then I’ll take fake leftism so that I can stop worrying about how I’m going to just live each month. Then I can worry about the next 30 years. Glad you’re in such a comfortable and presumably wealthy spot in your life that you get to be upset about good things happening to people
Run for office, bud.
As if tankies did anything in real life
raises taxes on the rich
“Look at this FAKE LEFTISM”
Dafuk
Tankies like the no true Scotsman
So then why did he appoint people who would recommend this?
Basically the city council is catching up on backlog and the last two mayors had a mandate to convene a pay commission and failed to do so. Mamdani and the person who led the commission both declined the raise but moved it forward. I honestly think they’re trying to clean up house and a pay raise after 10 years isn’t crazy. This comes after they already addressed the budget deficit he inherited, passed the luxury second home tax and cut out almost 2 billion dollars of expenses iirc.
When I got to leadership at work, the first year I reviewed the budget, interviewed employees for their long term career goals, helped make them annual goals to get there and quarterly coaching check ins. Recommended raises for everyone who was underpaid and or promotions for all who earned it or were already assuming the responsibilities without the title. Everyone got COLA and everyone got a bonus tied to kpi. I know public sector is different but a good leader makes sure people are taken care of. One of the most expensive cities in the world going 10 years without addressing the pay is crazy. Its all officials even city attorneys who could leave and make double at any corporate firm in ny
Always one of you.
As far as I understand it, this is probably not a pay raise. The news says that it would be the first raise since 2016. If you look at the inflation of USA, you can see that $100 in 2016 are $138 today. So if you raise it by 18%, you have not even covered the inflation.
I looked up their salaries and they seem plenty even by NYC standards. So a pay cut doesn’t seem like a big problem to me.
I’m open to hearing why this was needed but so far I haven’t seen a good reason for it.
Did you look up the policy around increasing salaries? Because I can guarantee you there’s a policy for civil servants that either pegs salaries to inflation or pegs it to comparable wages in similar positions.
So the people who he hired went to apply existing policy, and he said “no.” And they said “OK.”
All seems perfectly reasonable to me. Salaries need to keep up with inflation when there’s no disposable income. At his level, there’s already plenty of disposable income, and he’s independently wealthy.
Bro, no common workers raises are meeting inflation rates.
City Council is all elected, not appointed.
I think the person you’re replying to was responding to this bit from the article:
The pay raises were recommended by a commission appointed by Mamdani earlier this year.
The fuck do you expect me to do. I can’t read
New York City council members are elected, not appointed, unless I’m missing the joke.
This was a recommendation from a commission which as I understand was appointed by Mamdani. Obviously he doesn’t have total control over them but it seems he would at least have a lot of influence.
Why would he try to influence them? Why go through the process of selecting a commission just to push them to make every decision like he would?
