Perhaps:
If we deleted "minimum wage" from our thinking, and replaced it with "equable wage" regulated via the tax code, we would end the disparity between the 1% ers and the 99%ers.
eg: If the highest paid(including all remuneration) made over 10 times the lowest paid employee, the tax rate for that business would go up.
Rising to a maximum of 75% if the highest earners made over 100 times the lowest.
$ seems to be a usable incentive?
Before long, we could eliminate the growing disparity, which may be destabilizing to our polity, between the richest and the poorest.
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Curiously: the highest paid California state employee is a football coach.
This seems to be beyond the bounds of sanity from my perspective.
