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Mark Cuban proposes company stock for all employees to combat income inequality

Mark Cuban proposes a solution to income inequality by advocating for all employees, from CEOs to janitors, to receive company stock. He believes this model, exemplified by SpaceX's recent IPO where a former welder became a millionaire, aligns incentives and allows workers to benefit from a company's success. Cuban has a history of implementing this strategy, having made hundreds of employees millionaires at his previous ventures like Broadcast.com and MicroSolutions. He suggests governments could incentivize this practice by offering lower corporate tax rates to companies that grant equity to all their staff. AI

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Mark Cuban proposes company stock for all employees to combat income inequality

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Sasha Rogelberg ·

    Mark Cuban says he has the solution to growing income inequality, and it’s to reward every employee—from CEO to janitor—with company stock

    “I would like to see it so that every single CEO/founder/entrepreneur does what I did, which was to give equity to every single employee," Cuban said.