TheJournal.ie - 11/17/13
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THE SWISS ARE to go to the polls to vote on limiting the pay of high-earners as a debate rages in the country about income, inequality and what fair pay really means.
Under the radical proposal, businesses would not be allowed to pay any member of staff more than 12 times the wage that they pay their lowest earners.
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Conversations with God
Hi everyone, Conversations with God lays out a plan that businesses and people are limited to a certain amount of profit per year. Whatever profit that is made above that mark will be put into the public coffers. Switzerland is leading the way to a whole new paradigm in this world, and shows that this country may be the model that the rest of the world should try and follow in this new world. Bravo Switzerland!
Plato
They got this idea from Plato's Republic I think where in Plato's ideal state the richest man would have no more than 4 times the poorest! Der somehow nobody took him up on such a common sense just and brilliant idea! Till now well 12 times ain't so bad! Good Luck Swiss!
Plato
They got this idea from Plato's Republic I think where in Plato's ideal state the richest man would have no more than 4 times the poorest! Der somehow nobody took him up on such a common sense just and brilliant idea! Till now well 12 times ain't so bad! Good Luck Swiss!