Billionaire entrepreneur and former Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban says the most powerful tool for reducing income inequality isn't a higher minimum wage it's employee stock ownership. Speaking on the "What It Takes" podcast hosted by Sarah McCammon, Cuban argued that giving workers an equity stake in the companies they help build is the real path to narrowing the wealth gap. "The way you're going to reduce income inequality for anybody who works with somebody is making sure they get shares of stock and then they benefit," Cuban said. His proposal uses the tax code as the incentive: companies that want to keep today's 21% corporate tax rate would be required to give every employee the same percentage of their cash compensation in stock, warrants, or options as the CEO receives. Miss that threshold, and the tax rate goes back up. Cuban illustrated the idea simply: "If the CEO gets $100,000 worth of stock because they make $1 million in cash, and the janitor makes $50,000, then they dese...