@AimeeMaroux @burnoutqueen basically everyone I know would at least do some sort of "#CommunityService" if their existance wasn't dependent on #WageWork, even if it's just some simple #MutualAid as in helping some seniors by carring their groceries up the 2nd floor or driving someone to/back from a doctor's office if they feel shit or get put under for some reason and thus can barely coordinate their own movements, much less bike home on their own.

@greycat @godpod EXACTLY!

And they should only be paid for the time they are actually working, not a second more!

• After all, if it's okay to not pay school teachers during summer vacation, then those #billionaire #bootlickers can also survive that!

Also every kind of income should be taxed like #WageWork and #BuyBorrowDie needs to be criminalized as illegal #TaxDodging and #SocialSecurityFraud!

• Plus make it illegal to attain any #donations, #contributions or #gifts whatsoever and prosecute any attempts as #corruption!

@infobeautiful this should be illegal - just like #CapitalGains should be subject to the same level of #taxation as #WageWork; including #SocialSecurity and #Healthcare payments!

@arclight I mean, I'd love to see someone pay me to maintain @OS1337 full-time (or any other of my #FLOSS / #FLOSH projects), but until then I'll sadly have to do whatever #WageWork keeps me and mutuals afloat.

• After all, being a "good person" doesn't make rent or pay utilities. Otherwise I'd still be a volunteer firefighter at the local platoon...

@Dave_Goldsmith we should also eliminate any #tax #advantages for #Billionaires!

• Make all #Interest and #CapitalGains be subject to the same taxation as if it was #WageWork with the same amount!

@EugeneMcParland $1,24B just in taxes owed means this guy made at least 5x that amount with #CapitalGains (assuming 20% tax rate) cuz no #WageWork pays that much!

No wounder many people want to see #TechBros being stripped of ftheir #wealth and #assets and forced to live off sub-#MinimumWage #GigWork , because these sociopaths are completely disconnected from the #workforce or any #WageWorkers whatsoever.

#WageWork #Workers #WorkersRights # GigEconomy #Precariat #WorkingPoor

@anna_lillith why is #CapitalGains not subhect to the same #taxes and #SocialSecurity contributions as #WageWork?

If I didn't need a #car for #WageWork I'd not spend ~ €2.150 p.a. just for the dubious "privilegue" of being legally allowed to drive it: And that's just insurance, tax, tech inspection and maintenance - that's not accounting for any down-payment or fuel or parking costs!

In fact, I'd rather love to have a #CabinScooter instead but sadly there ain't any in production...
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/PLV

@Binder +9001%

Noone has yet explained to me why Benzos, MiskRat & Co. should get #millons if not #billions of money yet they can't really "outwork" their employees on the floors to that extent, nor do they bear any personal risks that would rationalize that amount of compensation.

• IOW: If someone isn't putting their life on the line to save lives like a firefighter, why should they get paid more than the #paygrade of a# firefighter?

What net benefit to society does a person bring who hoarded so much money that neither them nor their children or grandchildren will ever have to do #wagework in their entire lives??

• Why isn't #CapitalGains and #RoboWealth subject to the same if not higher amount of #taxes and #Contributions to #SocialSecurity and #Healthcare like #WageWork? Cuz even #WhiteCollar #Money shufflers do have the non-zero risk of becoming unemplyable throigh accidents or disabling disease - they ain't gods for that matter!

@cek same problem and also bad.

• By that logic all cops must disarm because having weapons on them is considered intent to harm and/or intimidate others...

All laws and decisions must he evaluated by their ability to oppress!

• Thus money should be outlawed because it's intended to harm others by virtue of debt, socioeconomic pressing into #WageWork and exerting force if not violence over others!!!

If anyone, the people #staking #Ethereum and refusing to #rollback #TornadoCash despite being demonstrably able to do so when their own money is on the line should be in front of the judge!

• Because it's one thing to make a knife and sell it to anyone vs. knowingly offer a knife to someone who has voiced their intention to stab someone to death with it!

@austinkocher also why would you want to "reimagine banking" other than abolishing #capitalism and #money and #wagework instead?

Like #banking is a nuisance one's forced to do to some degree, like defacating: Noone likes it but everyone sooner or later has to do it!

@scottsantens nodds in agreement

If I didn't have to make rent with #WageWork, I'd still be a volunteer Firefighter [sadly had to quit due to work schedule being incompatible with training hours] and most likely start some business that would be impossible due to lack of funding to bridge months if not years of no high profitability, like some IT business focussed on repairable and maintainable tech...

@thoughtpunks IMHO the #unequal #taxation of #income types is #ClassWarfare.

There's no non-classist asnwer to the question of "Why do #Billionaires not have to contribute the same if not more in both % and total amount of #taxes and fees than any #WageWorker?"

It's not as if prople like #Bezos can't get sick, become unable to work or manage their funds nor that they ain't also #extracting #wealth from #society...

#BuyBorrowDie should be illegal and #CaoitalGains should be taxed higher than #WageWork of equal payout!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6V9i8fFADI

@Peg33 actually, those numbers aren't true, as #CapitalGains / #RobiWealth is taxed at maximum 25 in #Germany and only #WageWork makes out ~ 45%.

Plus only #WageWorkers pay into #retirement, #healthcare and #unemployment insurance.