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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They need to base politicians salaries off minimum wage. If they only earned a salary based off 4-5x the minimum wage, that shit would never be lagging as bad as it is now

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

this only works if they stop them from being able to hold investments in companies, and markets, they pass laws for, as well as getting rid of political donations. If we don't do that their salary going down would only negatively affect the small number of congress members that want actual change to things.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I have a solution, make it legal to kill politicians who hold investments or take bribes. They become outlaw and anything done to them is just the consequences of their actions.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why 4x minimum wage? How could they represent the poorest people in a country if they make quadruple the money?
If they cant live with minimum wage, its their problem to solve

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's [supposed to be] a demanding position. Relative to the skills we should be demanding these people to have, the pay they currently get is actually not that impressive.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

4 times as demanding sounds kinda funny. 254000× or whatever sounds like religious fairy tales. To the guillotines.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wtf are you talking about? Congress's salary is only ~178k.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Congress is the 4. Private sector is the ∞.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No one in this thread had mentioned private sector. Try to stay on topic.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago

I just mentioned it. Thanks anyway!