Comment on In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?

Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Enforce a Market-Basket-Measure based minimum-wage:

live in an expensive city?

Yes, there’s much more innovation-per-capita there ( because more complex interactions are happening, more people sparking other-people ), but the costs are higher there, too, so therefore the minimum-wage has to be higher, the bigger the city.

You also get the rural-living-tax, though, as you’re much more motor-vehicle-dependent, rurally…

Fix the wages law, so parenting can be unbroken, & that would have significant cascading-effects.


Enforce proper education’s availability, so that critical-reasoning becomes normal for 80+ percent of the population, ASAP.

That would undo much of the idiocracy-cult’s traction, & get rationality beck into the world.


Prevent DarkTetrad/DarkTriad people from being electABLE, or having authority in public-service ( including police-services ), & that would make huge difference.


Criminalize bribery, including lobbying, & force all issues to be decided through rational issue-diagrams, not through “politicking”, & that would clean-up our countries, significantly.


etc.


Combined-Arms: hit all the dimensions, simultaneously, & force the enemy-of-our-viability to yield, no matter what.

Otherwise, The Great Filter’s going to be our world’s epitaph, in about 60y.

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