“the minimum wage will eventually be $15,000 an hour so this Woke Disney holiday will be affordable to all of our Comrades”
No, it’s simpler then that.
They just mandate progressive pricing, like Medicare: you pay more if you make more.
So it won’t matter how hard you work, how smart you are: the price is adjusted so everyone gets the same stuff no matter what they make.
Worked really well in the Soviet Union! No one with a brain bothered to make anything worth anything because why bother? Everyone gets the same crap in the end.
“They just mandate progressive pricing, like Medicare: you pay more if you make more.”
Anyone who’s applied for ‘financial aid’ for their kids’ college gets a real taste of ‘progressive pricing’, if they ever consider that the ‘net tuition’ they’ll be paying is based on income.