Reply #29: I ONLY expect monetary reward to be the incentive which reasonably

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gets people to do worthwile things.

I wouldn't want anyone telling me to do things for their gain, but not mine, and I wouldn't be holding my breath for people to do productive things in a society which didnt' reasonably reward people for their investments and their efforts.

We tried a different system once before. It was called slavery.

I think my post below addresses the rest of this. It's a gift for management at the cost of employees, and for the self employed, it tells the most productive to stop being producitive for the rest of the year if they reach the limit. It's never good for society to tell people to stop working when they've proved that they are very capable and very productive.

Say you're a great plaintiff's lawyer and you do class action suits. Say, by March you've reached your earned income level. You wouldn't keep working for free. You'd go on vacation for the rest of the year.

Who benefits when talented plaintiffs lawyer only work three months a year? Negligent corporations.

An income cap, therefore, is one of the most conservative proposals I've heard put forth at DU.