• weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    This will surely help their demographic crisis!

    “Mothers, fathers, please work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, while raising half a dozen children for the meat grinder”

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      It’s meat grinder for both men and women, gotta make those babies while doing away with the older models

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    17 days ago

    “And the sooner we switch to this new schedule—from 8 AM to 8 AM, including Saturdays—the faster we will undergo this transformation.”

    Plus a six day workweek.

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      Reminder: When the billionaire says “we,” they mean you.

      Reminder: When the billionaire says “it’s good for the economy,” you are not the economy.

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      17 days ago

      72 h/week.

      I have another proposal: 99% taxes above $1 million (equivalent) of income, including ALL income.

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        So, I don’t know how things work in specifically Russia, but in general, I think that it’s not so much the level of taxation as it is loopholes.

        For example, can the companies that he controls be directed to lend him money on terms that he directs without it being taxed by the Russian state?

        More-broadly, I’d guess that it would be exceptionally difficult to impose taxes on specifically him, because he’s buddies with Putin and tied up in control of the country. If the system is actively interested in avoiding taxing you, it’s likely going to find ways to not do so.

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    For one I approve. Do it Sundays too. Why not make 16 hour days too?

    If Russians don’t want to denefestrate Putin over war crimes, maybe they will do it if pushed to the personal breaking point.

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    Would love to see them try to implement them. People will throw them out of the highest windows they can find.

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    Maybe he could try not being a billionnaire anymore and giving back his money to society, so nobody needs to work for this leech?

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
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    With all that technology, 6 hours should be the new norm like decades ago, but billionaires must double their wealth every few years…

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    I honestly think this is an April Fools. I recall the Russians have a sort of darkly twisted take on it.

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    Why doesn’t he give up a few of his billions to help stabilise the economy instead? He’d barely miss them.