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▲ verteu 2 hours ago

The article is light on concrete policy suggestions.

One possibility is "adjust the minimum wage for inflation," but they seem to be against this: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=the+eco...

▲Telaneo an hour ago | parent [-]

It's really annoying that minimum wage and the like aren't pegged to a general 'cost of living'-number that scales with inflation and whatnot. Peg the wages of the politicians to the same number. If they then want to increase their own wages, they have to also increase the minimum wage, or go out of their way to only increase their own wage, which will hopefully cause some people to call them out on their shenanigans.

▲johnnyanmac 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

I do love the idea of tying the wages of public servants roughly to their constituents. But we already know the loophole of "use insider trading and bribes" to get around such restrictions on salary. Above all else, we need proper accountability before we dream of any real change like this.