Ideas on how to reduce economic disparity and inequality

Without workers no work is done. There needs to be a reassessment of the value of the work that provides the products that create wealth. Business people who set up the mechanism of exchange and commerce, businesses, provide an essential and important central feature of commerce, the market. But their role is not more important than, nor does it have more value than the role of the people who actually do the physical work. The disproportionally large share of wealth that goes to business people and shareholders who do NOT do the physical work as compared to the far smaller share of the weath that goes to the workers is not just. There needs to be a reassessment of the distribution of wealth and a more equitable balance of the distribution of wealth should be achieved. At a minimum every human being has basic needs that must be met: housing, food, clean air and water, toilet facilities, clothes, health care, (preferably preventative and maintenance of good health as opposed to intensive, expensive acute care for advanced diseases), and education. These basic human needs are universal and they should be considered essential for all people. That is the only way to have an economically just society. There should be measures that could be used to modify or remove some of the things that create this huge income inequality that we have ended up with. CEO compensation, tax cuts, loopholes, tax havens, waivers and exemptions and a tax code that favor the rich, the supercharged power and influence over Congress and the the government that lobbying and dark money of billionaires has, the rapacious and predatory elements of capitalism, all of these are factors that contribute to social and economic inequality and wealth disparity not just here in the United States but globally. It’s a very involved, complex problem comprised of a multitude of issues. There are really no easy fixes. But the bare minimum should be that all people are paid sufficiently enough money for the work that they do for them to be able to provide for their basic needs and those of their families, without having to sacrifice having any of those basic needs being met.