• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Where do you think those billionaires got their money?

    spoiler

    Its all Someone Else’s Money

    New York as a whole has ridiculous taxes because of insane police budgets and corruption allowing stuff like ambulance companies charging the state 3K/trip for non-emergency weekly dialysis visits.

    Which is weirdly similar to California which you’d think was a communist utopia the way rightwingers talk about it.

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      If I sell you a thing, it’s no longer your money, it’s my money. You get a thing that is now your thing.

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        Problem is by now, I don’t get that thing anymore. i get a freaking licence to use it for some time, and when you decide I don’t own that licence anymore you got my money and I have nothing

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          Jeff Bezos started Amazon and worked to expand it for decades. The company didn’t make a profit for something like 20 years (but kept raising money and expanding). Sounds like labor to me

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              They were paid the wage they signed the contract for. Underpaid scoring to whom?

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                The difference between the wealth they created and the wealth they received was still the product of their labor, not Jeff Bezos. Do you think Lockheed shareholders got us to the moon, and not ya know, the engineers and scientists?

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                  3 months ago

                  If employees create negative wealth because the project fails, do they have to pay it back?

                  Oh, you only want employees to have 100% of the profit, with 0% of any loss

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                    Idk why you’re licking boots without even being asked to.

                    The question was “whose labor do billionaires get their wealth from” and the answer is “the workers”