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"As an illustration of the excesses of our time, all three men point to the gross inflation of executive compensation, which was 20 times an average worker's pay in 1973 and is roughly 260 times an average worker's salary today [...] To add insult to injury, those earning their income from wages must, under current tax code, pay a higher percentage of their wages to the government than those who earn their income from dividends and capital gains."

"The court also cited "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." With no other Western nation allowing for such juvenile executions, one has to wonder why the maturation of America's "standards of decency" had taken so long."

@koko@hellsite.site that'll be. interesting to watch

@koko@hellsite.site this is so cursed i have no doubts some capitalist has already tried to make it

bah! we found a recorded lecture on something we want to learn about. but don't have the attention span to listen to it

@BestGirlGrace or just whatever the fuck gaius was doing in rome

@BestGirlGrace nah we've inadvertently studied plenty of history we already well familiar with that

@BestGirlGrace ok but actually this is a legit justification for that trope and i. hate that fact. so much im gonna write a story with that plot point

@BestGirlGrace the real reason time travelers always have to ask a local what the date is

@BestGirlGrace stick to time machines. less complicated