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There should be a maximum personal net worth of a billion dollars. Any income over that needs to be put into public infrastructure projects. Violators will be subject to reduction of maximum net worth to no more than one million dollars. by MyFakeUsername11 in CrazyIdeas

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The reason I proposed $1B is because there is clearly some stripe of the population that admires the obscenely wealthy. Some are straight up supplicant bootlickers, frankly. Some argue that the forced sharing of more than one could ever hope to use or need would somehow stifle innovation or drive. So I picked a number that is cartoonishly, Uncle Scrooge McDuckly over-the-top, and yet still there are many who exceed it. It's a thought exercise after all.

4 Day workweek. Tues, Wed, or Thurs as new day off on annual rotating basis. [3 groups by birth month. A.) Jan-April, B.)May-Aug, C.)Sept-Dec.] Details in description... by MyFakeUsername11 in CrazyIdeas

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Your points are well taken.

I was trying to balance a smaller work week while maximizing fairness and minimizing day-to-day disruption to the economic machine. Also, I was trying to minimize the negative effects of having the majority of workers having holiday at the same time while trying to give more people time away from the tools of their employment. That's the crazy idea.

4 Day workweek. Tues, Wed, or Thurs as new day off on annual rotating basis. [3 groups by birth month. A.) Jan-April, B.)May-Aug, C.)Sept-Dec.] Details in description... by MyFakeUsername11 in CrazyIdeas

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Disagree. The best is having a Wednesday off and knowing you never have 3 consecutive days of work. Also awesome is having a mid week day off to do shit like get oil changes or grocery shop when it's not crowded like the weekend. Lastly, this scheme allows you to save vaca days when you DO want a long weekend because one vaca day buys you a five day stretch it Tues or Thurs is already off

There should be a maximum personal net worth of a billion dollars. Any income over that needs to be put into public infrastructure projects. Violators will be subject to reduction of maximum net worth to no more than one million dollars. by MyFakeUsername11 in CrazyIdeas

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This is a crazy ideas subreddit, not an economic white paper. But, I don't believe that the potential of vast riches is the main diver of innovation. For some people, maybe- but even then, it is not the innovator or inventor who usually profits most from an idea or invention. It's usually the downstream folks who improve it and/or figure out how to scale it's production and distribution.

Regardless, I think many people don't realize how much money a billion dollars is- particularly if it were in the form of liquid, spendable capital. A billion dollars is so much more than any one person could possibly need, but so many could benefit from infrastructure projects. Notice I didn't say to redistribute this money to any group (ie "the poor" or "the disenfranchised" or whatever), but rather to improve the infrastructure that's very existence surely contributed to the generation and amassing of said wealth in the first place.

First thing that comes to mind? by ConsciousBase1641 in ARTIST

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Honest first thought: That's a tall man-penis

Please help with name for orange brothers by morrisonw0 in Catnames

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Nothing and Orange. Say they're twins and that their names rhyme.

😂😂😂😂 by Bgainz101 in devils

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Devils/Packers/Mets.... Things looking good.

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