Comment by ericmay | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ericmay | Hacker News Reader

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Donate money to workers and be the change you want to see in the world. Leave extra large tips? Change starts with you. Stop complaining and being a baby and saying nobody can get rich while you live in what many consider to be a literal paradise with an income that correspondingly allows you quite a bit of freedom and high quality life. If you don’t want to do that move to Nebraska and buy a house and prove to yourself you can buy a house. You’re not entitled to buy an “affordable” house in the place almost everyone in the world wants to live.

The example you gave isn’t a good one. And second the CEO is often paid in shares to avoid taxes on income. If the shares are worthless, well you can do the math.

Like I said, I'm privileged and happy. It's my teacher friends, service industry friends, and factory workers I feel bad for. I just wish the USA was still a country where workers were well compensated, like they were from 1950 through about 1990.

Well you can voluntarily pay them more. Nothing stopping you. Buy American made only products or buy products only from American companies and pay more like I do. Put your money where your beliefs are. Where do your pots and pans come from? Lodge? Smithy? Duparquet? I do. You won’t catch me dead buying shit from non-American companies unless there are no realistic replacements. I’m not kidding, by the change you want to see in the world.

The 1950s - 1990s (not sure the time period is exactly correct) primarily corresponds with the post-war boom in which the US has 25% or so of global production and GDP. Those days aren’t coming back. We can work on tax policy of course, but there are too many people and too much competition for resources. In addition to tax policy reform we need governments to get back to basics, stop hiring dotards, and reduce the NGO and non-profit complex siphoning money away with crappy results. We can do better. Let’s do it. But let’s do it across the board and both put our money where our mouth is.

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