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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not really how that works. Sure, it isn't liquid, but you can still borrow against it, and you don't pay tax in this like you would if you sell. That's how the wealthy can still buy things without having to pay any reasonable amount of tax.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

And if amazon gave their employees stock options (like they did at one point) the employees could also borrow against it. But amazon stopped doing that once they reached a point where their employees were impacting their bottom line. They now rob their employees of that option to entrench wealth amongst the elite