Post #4272773

2026-07-31 08:49 UTC

I propose the following constitutional amendment -- people who have never worked a minimum wage job in this country for at least TWO YEARS of their life are INELIGIBLE for ANY ELECTED POSITION. 📜✒️

Replies (7)

@buherator@infosec.place 2026-07-31 09:09

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange CEOs often work for minimal wage for tax reasons around here. But even that case is much better than simply asking your billionaire friends to push literal peanuts your way along with a job contract 2 years before you run for office.

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@t3rcermillenium@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 08:58

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Why not just use sortition like we do for juries. We already have incompetent politicians with no experience or understanding of the areas they are responsible for. Random citizen selection can’t be any worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

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@Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online 2026-07-31 08:50

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Add-on: It must be in customer-facing/service industries, as well (retail, food, etc)

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@rightsprung@c.im 2026-07-31 08:52

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange 100%

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@lobingera@chaos.social 2026-07-31 08:52

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Make it international and we're talking

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@u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing 2026-07-31 08:56

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange does Boots count? Oh wait, that was two days, not two years.

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@cmdrSprocket@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-31 08:57

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Wouldn't work. Those people utilize jobs like charity chair for themselves, or golf caddie for their children. ... or cutting grass in front of the white house. 😉

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