Well, it depends what you mean by "execs". As an example, if the CEO's salary were reduced to zero, that would net each driver ~$1/year. If the CEO's entire equity in the company were liquidated, that would net each driver a one-time payment of $11. Is that what you mean?
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Replying to @cmuratori @bentruyman and
I'm certainly sympathetic to the argument that tech execs should be paid less because they simple aren't worth it, but that is very different from suggesting that somehow it would make a substantial difference in their workers' wages (it basically never would).
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori and
Seeing you say that, I decided to stop a second and do the maths. With this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth … and the estimate that there are 600 total american billionaires, I ballpark their combined net worth as being 3.5 trillion...
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Replying to @hamish_todd @Jonathan_Blow and
And Medicare for All, for example, would be ~$30T over the next 10 years. You’d need more billionaires.
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Replying to @bentruyman @hamish_todd and
I didn't do the math. But how the fuck a poor country like Brazil can do decent public and great, cheap private healthcare? And in the USA it's literally impossible? I mean, I get it, economy is not easy and trivial solutions don't work. But saying this wouldn't work is weird.
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Replying to @sohakes @bentruyman and
Because the actual problem is the healthcare sector is "overpaid", meaning it takes way more money to run it than it should. It has nothing to do with billionaires, but it's easier to claim that than to point out that the "medical industrial complex" is a disaster.
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
Personally, I think healthcare in the US could be fixed almost overnight by simply enacting some laws designed to foster competition in healthcare. Instead, nearly 100% of our healthcare laws are designed to prevent it (patents, licensing, liability, etc.)
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
Even just transparency of healthcare costs would help, but in addition to all the barriers you mentioned, the AHA/FAH don't want transparency. And I can't figure out why...
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That is the very first law I would pass if I were emperor :) It is absurd that you go to the doctor, never see a price list, and then just receive something in the mail later that magically says you owe something.
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There's nothing else like the in my day-to-day life. Every other things I buy or agree to buy tells me up front what it costs. Is it any wonder healthcare prices keep going up, when you know your customers don't even know what the prices are until after they already owe them??
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Replying to @cmuratori @j_KN0X and
It's actually worse. Even healthcare providers don't know what their services cost. Next time you're at the dentist and they say it's time for X-rays ask them how much it will cost and watch the confusion set in.
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