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Forum Post: Support the Vision of Prosperity and Opportunity for Everyone

Posted 1 year ago on Dec. 27, 2012, 7:18 p.m. EST by Misaki (893)
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Need signatures, or at the very least feedback!

Petition here, still waiting for changes to update on fail website. The two important points are 1) people should not feel like sharing it will make their friends look stupid, and 2) people should feel like it has a chance of success, or else they would not support it. (A third key point is that it explains why economists have not supported it.)

This is the image that is supposed to be showing up on the petition:

Target: People who like to win
Sponsored by: (should be) Occupy Wall Street

The rich are rolling in cash. Capitalists complain they don't have anything to invest in. 18 million houses in the US stand empty as those who can afford them already have one.

If highly-paid skilled workers spent less time at work, companies could hire more people. This is all it takes to fix our economic problems.

But economists won't support this because they fear retaliation by the corporations and individuals who control most of the world's wealth, or they are being paid to advocate for the rich.

Maybe one person could have an "accident". But they can't kill everyone.

With a simple system like paying skilled workers 1.2x their normal rate for the first 24 hours, and 0.7x after that, people would not feel they are being unfair to colleagues by working less.

Don't think this is not your problem. This is everyone's problem, due to crime and taxes to fund welfare, unemployment benefits and even prisons.

Previous petitions: 1 2 3 4 5

Our target is to change the world.



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