Two minutes
Start the conversation with the people who represent you.
Fill in four things. You'll get a letter in your own name, with the numbers from the ledger, addressed to whoever you choose. Copy it, send it, done. Nothing you type here is stored or sent anywhere except by you.
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Find who to send it to
These go to official lookup pages. Enter your address there, get the name and contact form, paste the letter. Contact forms usually work better than email for elected officials.
A real plan
What one person can do
Pick the tier that fits the time you have. Every one of these moves something. The middle column is where most change actually comes from.
5 minutes
- Send the letter above to one person who represents you.
- Send the ledger link to one friend with one company's number.
- Post one company. Close with "Their own numbers."
1 hour a week
- Look up your own employer's pay ratio (search: "[company] proxy statement pay ratio"). If it isn't on the ledger, send it in.
- Bring it up at one meeting, one dinner, one group chat. Say the sentence. Let people argue.
- Ask a local candidate, in public, whether they'd support publishing pay bands and capping executive pay at a multiple of the median worker. Record the answer.
- Show up to one city council or school board meeting and use the public comment slot. Two minutes, the numbers, the sentence.
If you have more
- If you work inside a large company: find out what percent of shares employees hold. Ask HR. Ask in writing. The answer is a number for the ledger.
- If you're a union member: propose a pay-ratio and ownership disclosure clause for the next contract.
- If you're a shareholder, even a tiny one: shareholder proposals on pay ratios and employee ownership are legal in most countries and companies hate them. Look up how at your broker.
- If you can code, research, or write: the data file is public. Add companies. Add countries. Translate the site. Fork it.
- If you know a journalist, a professor, a legislator's staffer: send them the ledger and one question. Not the whole vision. One question.
What to ask for, in order
Ask for the smallest thing first. Each one makes the next one easier.
- Publish it. Pay ratio, pay bands by job and location, and employee ownership share, every year, in plain language. This is already law for the ratio in the US and UK; the ask is to extend it and make it readable.
- Floor it. A living-wage requirement for large employers and their suppliers, indexed to local cost of living.
- Cap it. Executive pay above a multiple of the median worker loses tax deductibility, then loses eligibility for public contracts, then is capped outright.
- Share it. Broad employee ownership through diversified funds; workers on boards above a size threshold.
- Watch it. Independent, publicly governed auditing, with citizen oversight and whistleblower bounties. The design is on the main page.