Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Add more term limits. You serve two terms and you're out, no exceptions. I'll even lend you a Mexican saying: “Sufragio efectivo no reelección”

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Michigan has term limits. It has not worked out well. It makes lobbying way easier, since the lawmakers aren't very effective earlier in their career. You also wind up with two casts of politians: those who want to be public servants and are forced to run for a different office to keep good on the table and those who are already well heeled. We don't need the second category in politics.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I looked up Michigan's term limits which is 12 years, which is honestly very long, so it led me to searching about corruption correlations and here's what I found:

The penultimate effect of term limits increases corruption frequency by about 28 %.

The magnitude effect, stemming from shorter tenures, reduces the average cost of corruption.

Stricter term limits are associated with lower overall corruption.

Term limits thus serve as an institutional safeguard against political corruption.

It is well established that lame-duck incumbents tend to be less accountable (Besley and Case, 1995, 2003), hence more prone to corruption, and Tsur (2022) showed that penultimate terms reinforce this effect. [...] Corrupt activities typically require close and trusted relationships between the public officials involved in the malfeasance and the private actors offering bribes. This intimacy and trust do not develop overnight, but require time to cultivate. [...] Consequently, such corrupt networks are often built gradually through repeated interactions, shared secrets, and a history of successful illicit transactions.

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[–] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago

You'd end up with politicians just jumping around tho.