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So imagine a game that the better you did, the easier it got, and the harder you struggled the more difficult it got; until it was so cripplingly impossible you just rage quit or troll. That's our system. Instead of increasing the difficulty for those who do well, we make it easier to go to multi millionaire than it is to make your first million. The people who need the breaks don't get them. It stems from a time when not producing just meant you're lazy. Now money can work for you. Some of our hardest workers are the poorest while others can basically make thousands of dollars by just sitting on a couch. So you raise minimum wage and the bill is passed on to other consumers, making those who make $20 an hour worth less and having less buying power in their lives. Instead of making a large group of middle class people lose a large chunk of wealth so a larger group of low wage earners can get a non life changing sum, take it from the top. Less are impacted and more benefit.

More money doesn't fix it. The cost of living is too high. A home is a basic human need. Since homelessness is illegal, it's also the law. So someone with the income for a down payment or good credit can afford a house, which gives them tax breaks and increases their wealth to lenders and banks. So done with less money must rent, at the cost of the mortgage and then some. Paying a house payment every month to rent makes saving a down even harder. In the re tees life they will pay more for housing than the person who owns, who is renting and thus has two properties and could not only afford both but has now increased their wealth by having someone else pay their debt. The US is full of these "poor taxes" levied by the government and private entities. Fuck raising the wage. Eliminate poor tax. Charge legal fines and tickets as a percent of income so that rich and poor carry equal incentive to follow the law and equal burden to break it. What's a $500 ticket to Tom Cruise or Elan Musk?