Having recently watched the documentary called “The One Percent” and reading an article about the growing disparity between the top one percent of America’s earners and the rest of the America’s wealth, I’ve been off and on thinking about what could be done to at least curb some of the issues.

Now I know or at least assume that this idea has been tinkered around with (if not already implemented) so it’s othing revolutionary. But sometimes I go on these self-thought tangents where I imagine myself in 1, 5, 10, sometimes 20 years from now, and how I’ll act, live, spend money, etc.

On the most recent tangent, I had this idea: if I was running a business, or at least had some part in major spending decisions, I would want to have a payroll scheme like this: no pay raises for anyone, executives and cashiers alike, unless the same percentage raise could be made across the board. I know the are many factors to consider here (such as how expensive that pay scheme really is, what to do if the company could no longer make payroll, what to do about merit pay raises, etc.).

This idea is based on really just one word: equality. Why reward an executive with a pay raise when the company as a whole is excelling? As an employee of a company who has rumoredly done just that, I feel betrayed. As anyone in retail would tell you, it’s the cashier, the stock boy, the pharmacy technician, and the assistant managers who make the money for the company. Yet who gets rewarded? The executives who thought new cashiers would be great for business; but keeps delaying the release of them (two years now), presumably at an increasing cost. The executives who thought eliminating overtime for assistant managers to become “in line with” companies now was good for business (Hint: for the bottom line, it was. For the morale, it sure as hell was not).

So imagining myself in 10 years, maybe running my own business, maybe leading a workers revolution, I hope to have these ideas still. And I hope to help implement them. In a world where there is social inequality, marriage inequality, sexual inequality, among so many inequalities, I can only hope that I can help correct one.

After all, money makes the world go ‘round. It’d be nice to keep the world in balance.