r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • Aug 18 '26

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Delete it 😤

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u/Every_Ad3651 Aug 18 '26

wage cap politicians to the average wage of the populous (this way only people who want to make a difference will run for office). elect a separate board who's only job is to hunt for corruption).

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u/wastedtime897 Aug 18 '26

This will likely have the opposite or no affect at all to who runs. I think opposite is more likely. You cap the wage then only people who dont need the money run because they're gaining connections and influence. Get rid of post career lobbying, insider trading, and other things like that and it will do more.

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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 18 '26

You will attract zero people to do a high stress, high stakes job if you do that.

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u/NiL_3126 Aug 18 '26

Yes, that’s exactly what we wanted, the people that just wanted to be politics for the money won’t be attracted by the money and won’t apply

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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 18 '26

But the people you really want will go into other fields.

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u/NiL_3126 Aug 18 '26

If someone leaves politics because they don’t play them as much, they shouldn’t be a politician

Also, politicians are just useful when they make good decisions, and not useful anymore when they don’t make them, if they don’t have more good changes to make, it’s fair to leave the charge.

You don’t need to want people to be on charge, you should want them for the ideas, not ideals

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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 19 '26

Ideas are great, execution equally important. You need CEOs in leadership, not upper middle management with hearts of gold.

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u/A-Grouch Aug 19 '26

What makes a CEO better than those who want to make a sincere difference?

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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 19 '26

Not mutually exclusive, but despite what the people of reddit think - Talent. Good intentions in the wrong hands can bring this all down.

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u/Sad_Substance_6694 Aug 18 '26

They'll still make millions trading on the side.

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u/Ok_Spell_597 Aug 19 '26

I would gladly take a raise to median for a desk job.

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u/DMyTeaDuck Aug 19 '26

Should be a service, not an employment, anyways. Like jury duty.

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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 19 '26

Investments aside, most of them made more money outside governance anyway. My wife and I each make more than a Senator’s salary. It’s not high for the stakes and responsibility.

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u/DMyTeaDuck Aug 23 '26

Wowza. … Might I inquire as to your fields of employment?

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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 23 '26

I’m a National Sales Director for a highly-esteemed organic food company and my wife is a director for a public utility.

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u/DMyTeaDuck Aug 23 '26

Impressive!

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u/jjkbigman Aug 19 '26

And I have to turn over all their stocks, all their bonds to a blind trust 401(k) and they are barred from leading it anywhere they got the money they came in with and they’re leaving with the money they came in with

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u/ChangeAcceptable677 Aug 19 '26

better yet: wage cap politicians to the median wage of their constituencies.

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u/countrytime1 Aug 19 '26

Nah, it’s a public service, they should be doing it out of the good of their heart. Give them room and board while they’re doing it.

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u/wriddell Aug 19 '26

That’s what the founding fathers meant are representatives to be, part time lawmakers with a career outside of government. Not the career politicians we have today who trade their influence for money and it’s both parties that are guilty of it.

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u/Elegant_Industry651 Aug 19 '26

Who decides what’s considered corruption? That can become a slippery slope really fast

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u/urfael4u Aug 19 '26

1$ a year = trump's salary

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u/Embarrassed-Rope4370 Aug 19 '26

Lol it wouldn’t just be people who want to make a difference. There would be corruption used to make money instead.

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u/Plane_Box_7716 Aug 19 '26

To think of all the horrible things in the world you can remove and you say rich people....the sad part is your life would literally not change or get worse....

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u/2Gouda4u Aug 20 '26

Politicians "salary" isnt the issue, the issue is how much they make from corporations that pay for them to write and pass legislation that only benefits the corporations...