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Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? (infosec.pub)

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Now I need to do the math on space karen/ henery ford 2.0 aka Mr my autism makes me prone to outbursts of fascist apologia.

I did the math recently and if you took the assets of the wealthiest 1% and divided only half of it amongst the remaining 336.3 million Americans it would be a check of approximately 68,000 for every man woman and child and those bloated blood sucking leaches would still have an average remainder of just under 6 million dollars each.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -3 points 7 hours ago (11 children)

This particular case would be great! But yeah, but give out all the billionaire money and money wouldn't be money.

Dad: "Money's valuable because it's hard to get. If everybody had it, it wouldn't be money."

Friend argued with me in the 90s about the feds shredding worn bills.

"They could give those millions to people like us!"

Well, yeah, and they could give every American a million bucks. Want that?

"Fuck yeah!"

I mow lawns for $20 a pop. If I had a million I'd want at least $20,000.

"Yeah, but a meal at McDonald's would still be $5! We could eat like kings!"

Tax the fucking snot of out 'em, but these dreams of spreading the wealth like peanut butter are childish.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There are so many issues with this but the primary one is that you'd be an idiot to try and never work again with only a million bucks in your hand.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Inflationary as giving everyone a million bucks would be, this was the 90s. $1M would net you a fair retirement.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Google says $1M in 1990 is worth just under $2.5M today. I guess in the 90s houses were worth more like a 20th to a 10th of that rather than the 5th to a 3rd it is today, but I think you'd still have been pretty short sighted to give up working on that kind of windfall.

Giving every American $1M is not anything like what the original post is talking about. It's talking about taking half of Bezos net worth and giving it to Amazon employees, which equates to maybe 2 years of a shitty wage, and would likely only be deliverable as stock in Amazon. The other point about redistributing some of the 1%s wealth to the wider citizens of the USA again only nets each individual 70k. Noones quitting their job over that and most people will be either be dumping it straight back I to the economy or paying down some debt.

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