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9. A living wage is too limiting. People need an income.

A means of supporting oneself and one’s family is required . It can be from wages, a guaranteed minimum income, investment income, business income, including self-employment, It requires safety-netting.

A country with the natural resourced of the U.S. and the combined talents, skills, energy and creativity of all of us, should not be experiencing the poverty and inequality we are experiencing.

We have and have had a subset of bad actors in our country who believe that they alone are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that the rest of us must allow them unfettered freedom to amass fortunes no matter what the cost to the rest of us and to our children and our planet.

The are not the creators or visionaries they claim to be, just antisocial exploiters who are able to amass wealth and power because they are not restrained, like the rest of us, by ethics, law, or sense of justice, fairness, common decency, or love other living beings.