How does this work when the capitalists working hours are zero? You cant divide by 0?
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It doesn't imply that he works for it, only that "he" makes that per hour.
lemmy.dbzer0.com solves the capitalist problem at least.
That's the secret, their wealth is a permanent division by zero. At a certain point, it's all made up
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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.
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.
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Although a dog may have peed on it, so wash your hands!
source: owner of a dog that proudly pees on any foreign item on the street.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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.
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".
this is just sad. fuck these guys
Yeah no, fuck them too. Those people rarely produce anything of value, just stress and using workers as their personal trauma dump.
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