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Old 08-27-2020, 10:39 PM   #637
Carman Bulldog
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Originally Posted by JPhillips View Post
It's never going to happen, so why spend a lot of time on it? Pressure the wealthy to contribute more. Raise taxes. Stop spending public money on private business. Those things can be accomplished in small degrees. Your proposal really reads more as a way to punish players for raising social issues than anything else.

But if you want to set a wage cap for every industry, at least it would be more fair.

I'm not punishing players. I'm saying, if they really, truly want to effect change, they hold the keys (and I also noted a large portion of owner revenues should also go towards this fund). I think they'd rather just pay lip service, the same way the rest of society does.

All of this social justice is like a giant organizational meeting. Everyone is all rabble, rabble, rabble... we need change, this needs to change, I support this, I have this great idea, etc. But when it comes down to actually making stuff happen, no one wants to step up and do the work or pay the price.
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