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CrispyQ

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3. Not only should they pay more in taxes, IMO, 20% of all shares should be set aside for employee ownership,
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 04:44 PM
Apr 2025

& at least one employee should sit on the board.

I know very little about the man or if he lives up to his words, but Richard Branson once said your customers aren't your most important people, your employees are & if you treat your employees right, they'll treat your customers right. A lot of companies don't see employees as an asset anymore. I worked for a company that showed amazing appreciation to their employees & I had friends constantly asking me about openings there.

A common argument against raising corporate taxes is that they'll just raise the prices on consumers, but I say they're gonna do that anyway, as evidenced by the extreme price gouging since the pandemic, so we just as well get something from it, right? Corporations are paper entities that enable rich people to behave irresponsibly without risking their personal wealth.

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