50/hr guy is not welcome in my home, not because of his class but because I don't like bootlickers and that's a bootlicker right there.
How does this work when the capitalists working hours are zero? You cant divide by 0?
It doesn't imply that he works for it, only that "he" makes that per hour.
If you're rich enough, you can pay people to try for you. Which, over relatively short time lines, is kinda like being able to.
That's the secret, their wealth is a permanent division by zero. At a certain point, it's all made up
lemmy.dbzer0.com solves the capitalist problem at least.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Where I live, in Washington state, there isn't an income tax however, finally, they're implementing one on people making over 1M/yr. There were people out protesting that definitely don't make 1M/yr. It's wild.
I am sincerely curious why anyone who has never & will never earn a million dollars per year, why would they be out on the streets protesting against taxing those who do. Maybe they participate in every protest because they're always down to party in the streets regardless of the occasion.
Nah, I think their main logic is the slippery slope fallacy, it might be them next! They also probably are just against all taxes all the time which, if you think about that for a singular second, how the fuck would they drive their lifted pickup to a protest against taxation if there were no tax dollars to build roads? They probably also don't realize/understand that we could hold millionaires to a different standard than us, as it's unprecedented in America.
Financial obesity? More like socioeconomic cancer.
It's not just an excess of adipose tissue. It's a malignant tumor, and it's capable of metastasizing. It's already in society's lymph. We're cooked.
I had a boss years ago who owned a temporary agency, and I had the pleasure of watching him berate his two receptionists -- who made $7 an hour and who had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the success of the business -- because his monthly income from the business had dropped from $40,000 to $25,000. Meanwhile he spent his entire day playing solitaire and listening to the Rush Limbaugh show.
Every time someone blames left vs right, Dems vs GOP, this is what I think of. It is really the consolidation of income and wealth with the very few at the top that is the problem.
Fascist use whatever ideology gets them more power. Racism today and Gay Rights tomorrow.
If you can't see beyond the propaganda you will never understand what is happening.
no thats pragmatism, fascists believe on hierarchy of power and nothing more, everything else is pretext to get whatever they want done, much like you had suggested in the latter half of your comment.
No that is conservative, but I see where you are going.
If Elon Musk finds a $100 bill in the street, it isn't worth his time to pick it up
Meanwhile, if your yearly salary is less than $315,360 it is worth your time to pick up a penny.
math
Assume picking up a penny takes one second. There are 31536000 seconds in a year (roughly, let's not get into leap seconds). Multiply that by $.01, the value of a penny. Then you get the salary such that across the year you're making a penny every second. A caveat to this is that even if you're making more than this you need to debate what "worth your time" means because it's still a penny you wouldn't have either way, but I think this is enough to illustrate the wealth gap.
Small edit: To add to that last point, what I mean is that it's not like you stop earning your yearly salary while you're picking up a penny.
Unless picking up the bill stops someone from earning for some reason, most people should earn their hourly wage plus $100
Is this part not showing for you or did you just miss it?
Small edit: To add to that last point, what I mean is that it's not like you stop earning your yearly salary while you're picking up a penny.
Picking up a penny takes way longer than one second! At least 5, if it includes stopping, and even longer if you check it out and put it in your wallet!
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I'd have to include another 30 seconds to unlock my phone and search something like "is 1956 penny worth anything", then another 20 seconds for disappointed reflecting.
I mean to be fair, you wouldn't be getting paid $315,360 for a years worth of work, you'd be getting paid $315,360 for 7.488 million seconds in a year (ish, 40 hour weeks, no missed days)
So really to have picking up a penny in one second be "worth" your time, you'd only have to be making $74,880 a year or less
Yeah bro I was thinking like I don’t make 300k a year and I still don’t pick up pennies…
It's always worth it when you're on the clock.
The book 'Freakomomics' deals, among many others, with the similarities between a corporate giant and a regular criminal organisation. In short, petty criminals risk death or prison for only two reasons: a) they feel they have no other choice and b) they are hoping, one day, to become part of the top members. That's about it. Think about it for a while and the argument is easily transposed to the '''legal''' corporate world, which also explains why middle managers tend to be obedient assholes who, instead of being mad at those exploiting them, exploit their underlings themselves.
"We don't want to end the exploitation. We want to become the exploiters!" - Rom, DS9 "Bar Association".
The CEO of my company makes almost $40,000 a day and all he has to do is play kissyface with congressmen.
The mouse at by shared office computer still has a fucking ball in it.
Can we get a picture of the mouse?
Its so fucking easy for em. Maybe we can trick people into liking each other.
Yeah no, fuck them too. Those people rarely produce anything of value, just stress and using workers as their personal trauma dump.
The problem I see is that rich old man has a lot of cash, and governments compete globally for that mans investment dollars. If you tax him theres some euclidean point where it no longer makes sense to invest.
If you're talking about taxing a person making 1 million dollars 75% and taking away 750k is that really fair? If you're some kind of genius programmer or CEO who went to Harvard would you stay for 25%?
We need to remove the tax loophole that people like Elon Musk use, where they borrow money to avoid paying taxes.
If you tax him theres some euclidean point where it no longer makes sense to invest.
Yes, that is exactly the point! That one rich person can not invest any more to screw everyone! There can still be governments, non-profits and cooperatives to invest. Only they have to invest with a multitude of people in mind.
If you're some kind of genius programmer or CEO who went to Harvard would you stay for 25%?
Yes that is totaly fair. No one can be so much of a genius to justify earning so much more. Also, what kind of asshole genius doesn't want to contribute to a better society?
Not a woman to be seen lol
this is just sad. fuck these guys
The dollar sign belongs before the number.
Presumably someone from a non-english speaking country made this, considering the dots used as digit grouping separators.
Having the $ at the end would be nice though. It's nice having your units in a single fraction instead of at different sides of the number. It could then be consistent with how we write all our other units.
We don't write m 1000/s, for example. We write 1000 m/s. We even say it this way already "4 million dollars per hour".
4,000,000 $/h makes way more sense than $4,000,000/h to be honest.
eh, same dif
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