Why 40%? The value of his labor that's being redirected to the pockets of wealthy CEOs is much higher than that.
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My calculations when i was working in a factory came out to about a 97.65% loss on my labor. Every piece i made was sold for $75, took me about a minute to make, and included about 7 other people to sell (oven, paint, quality inspection, forklift to trailer, forklift off trailer, stocker, cashier), 3 more if you include the parts before me (material procurement, forklift to trailer, and the same guy as before to take it off the trailer)
I made easily 90 parts an hour, and was paid $25 an hour regardless of output. I paid 15% on taxes (fed, state, local) because im married and my wife cant work. The quarterly pizza party or $100 bonus was absolutely not worth the cost of my labor.
40% of his pay. They don't pay workers the full value of their labor... that would be ridiculous! Communism, even!
There's another 30% that goes to non-cannibalistic regular pedophiles.
Because it said pay and not value?
It varies by industry, but generally you are correct.
So many layers of tax, each bleeding a worker who would otherwise be able to contribute more to the other workers.
Taxes are how you contribute to other workers. The notion that taxes are "stolen" is libertarian bullshit preached by the people who want to drive us back into feudalism.
BBQ parties and helping them move are how you contribute to other workers.
Sales taxes are how you still cant afford bratwurst.
And when they say your taxes go to healthcare, you think it goes to doctors and nurses. Actually most of it goes to brian thompson types.
Ah yes, regular BBQ parties are notably more valuable than healthcare. Of course. Turns out my $700 pellet smoker can do the job of an entire hospital and I never knew!
tax money goes to consultants. lobbyists. hospital non-compete clauses. administration. hospital ai. ceo paychecks. drug monopolies. patents. buying bias in science, etc.
also, taxing the rich is possible if the system becomes simpler. the more complex the system, the greater the lawyers payout
None of those things are arguments against having taxation. You're just quibbling over how taxes are collected and spent.
Taxes are how you contribute to other workers
...in a system where politicians actually represent their constituents instead of their corporate donors.
preached by the people who want to drive us back into feudalism.
Even feudal lords demanded tribute. That's basically what taxation is in a system where the government is this blatantly corrupt.
At this point I no longer believe taxes go to anything good. Even the fucking welfare is all a grift with these politicians.
So the orange one paying to prevent wind farm construction is contributing to the workers? 🤔
No matter what, you will always be able to name a government expenditure you personally disagree with. It is ridiculously childish to conclude from that fact that government spending as a whole should not exist.
No, but the alternative is not some no-tax, every-person-for-themselves anarchy.
Please do yourself and others a favor and don't conflate libertarians with actual anarchism.
whilst modern anarchism certainly has a lot of good points to make, anarchism in general also covers some pretty horrendous ways of structuring society…
anarchism is, at its core, is just absense of government and rulers
The word "anarchy" was first defined by Ancient Greek philosophy, which understood it to be a corrupted form of direct democracy, where a majority of people exclusively pursue their own interests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
that original definition pretty well covers “everyone for themselves anarchy”
you can argue “yes but no serious anarchist”, but the word at its core doesn’t just mean the serious and thought out structures
it is what it is: anarchy can mean chaos, it’s just that when discussing with people who are discussing the implementation of anarchy, it’s widely agreed that chaos is not the goal and thus other systems are put in place
it is frustrating that the modern version of the word has become synonymous with only the kind of anarchism that’s generally agreed is not the way any of this should be implemented… but anarchism still covers those shit takes
That's certainly... true enough from a prescriptivist perspective. However the layman likely doesn't care about all that, and frankly neither do I. Anarcho-capitalism (US libertarianism, read: feudalism) is about as true to "modern anarchism" as Nazism (fascism) is to socialism.
Anyway, I find your "contribution" kinda unhelpful and kinda masturbatory, so... goodbye
It is extremely frustrating that anarchism had been deliberately stigmatized and demonized through all forms of media for decades. Like someone in a movie describing a riot as "total anarchy."
Yeah, the unending propaganda is just awful. And necessary to perpetuate any system that can't stand on its own merits. "Tyranny requires constant effort."
55 hour work week? Over ten hours a day? What the actual fuck?
I used to work nearly 100 hours a week in my early 20s. It was going to kill me for sure, but 50-60 hours a week isn't uncommon sadly
Um, this is fairly normal in the US.
Not saying it's right or good, but, yes.
I mean technically, if you commute 90 minutes in a direction per day, along with a five-day 40-hour week, you spend 55 hours on work a week
And while 90 minutes may be far fetched in most parts of europe hopefully, I kind of suspect it isn't in the land of the free
I kind of suspect it isn't in the land of the free
Dude I once worked two jobs on alternating days of the week on cities 45 miles in opposite directions. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to drive to work and then realize you're in the wrong parking lot when you get to work after a 90 minute drive because traffic sucks.
Dammit now I need some fried food
America. It fucking sucks here
i knew someone in CC that did 12hr/day for 5-6days a long time ago. not surprised he burned out of his major, and switched to a more "chill major", because your own job overtook your time from studying. never try to do full time work, while full time student, you just end doing really bad on most of your classes. the rent at the time was pretty reasonable for and lucky he even found one at a HCOL like under 1000/mon rent at the time. he was trying to save for an expensive grad school in the future, but had a "eiphany' and 180 his career choices, to a 'Easier" but questionable job market job(degree)
You are assuming a 5 day work week apparently...
That's the construction life baby~ 💅
lmao
hits even worse on a tuesday
"child eating pedophiles" and child-eating pedophiles are two entirely opposite things. Hyphens matter.
your average american can't read past elementary school but here you are with your pedantic nerd bullshit to act like details matter.
critique by grammer.. i dare you.
want more capitalizations? want me to spell grammar properly?
Relax dude, it's not that serious.
Did CalypsoGirl hit a sore spot or something?
Who the fuck wears a hard hat hi viz in their lounge?
Because it's a single-panel cartoon in which they need to convey an entire concept with only one picture and a few words. TL;DR Cartoons aren't real.
just came home to sit down tired?
Everyone I've known that wears equipment like that takes it off the moment they leave site. No way would they wear it at home.
55 hours?!
'Murica!
Not all jobs, but yeah they exist. Working on films/TV production is often 60+ hr work weeks.
Hey now they aren't child eating... That's the controled opposition...