>>5841868at this point I'd be happy with Egyptian laws, where a slave was bound to give 1/5th of what he produced to the Pharaoh
Today you have a minimum of 30% tax income across the West for average salaries, and when you factor in a ~1300% increase in CEO salaries compared to <20% worker increase. Even if you say that the CEO or boss of a company works 100x as much as the average worker and deserves a salary 100x as large (which is absurd but to dismiss the work-ethic argument), that would still, for example in the USA, require the average to be $156.000, or 3x as much as now. Essentially, even if you "deserve" 1/100th of your boss' salary, you are now getting paid 1/3rd if what you should, or in other words your boss pockets 60% of your production value. and that't gross salary. afterwards the government takes another 20-50% (depending on the country) leaving you with <30% of what you were supposed to keep at the best case scenario. You give 70% of what you produce, or almost 4/5ths. even serfs paid had to pay only 10% of what they produced while working on the landlord's farm.
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/how much work WOULD be slavery to you?
