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In general, I can agree with your view as a good outcome. But the problem is - who gets to decide what is too much? I see you're in tech and an author (btw, I'
by xyzelement 3y ago
In general, I can agree with your view as a good outcome. But the problem is - who gets to decide what is too much?
I see you're in tech and an author (btw, I've come across your book before, congrats!) and I bet MOST people would also think that you have "too much" because it's more than them, and "what do you really do to earn it? type on a keyboard? That's not real work."
Because I don't want to someone to have the power to say "hey xyzelement, your FAANG salary is unreasonable and we're going to take it away for greater good" (and ditto for my wife's medical salary), I don't feel it's right to do it to anyone else.
- itishappy 3y agoI find "your salary is too much and we're taking it away from you" to be extremely reductive. (Even, dare I say, maliciously obtuse.) This isn't some radical policy change, it's more or less how our current system was designed, if we chose to enforce it. Instead, you and your wife probably pay more taxes than our ultra-rich. Offloading that burden onto everybody else does not feel right to me. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...