• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    14 小時前

    Why 40%? The value of his labor that’s being redirected to the pockets of wealthy CEOs is much higher than that.

          • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
            61·
            12 小時前

            I’m well aware of what OP’s intent was. My comment was highlighting the inherent absurdity of complaining about taxes, which are by no definition “theft” and which are actually used to enrich your fellow man (no, I don’t need to hear about military spending or whatever other government outlay you personally object to; even in the US there are still tax funded programs that benefit the average person, despite the Republicans best efforts), rather than directing your anger at the far greater amount of our productivity that is literally stolen from us by the super wealthy.

    • RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      47·
      13 小時前

      So many layers of tax, each bleeding a worker who would otherwise be able to contribute more to the other workers.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        13 小時前

        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.

        • architect
          2·
          1 小時前

          At this point I no longer believe taxes go to anything good. Even the fucking welfare is all a grift with these politicians.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          41·
          12 小時前

          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.

        • driftwood@lemmy.zip
          35·
          12 小時前

          So the orange one paying to prevent wind farm construction is contributing to the workers? 🤔

          • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
            81·
            11 小時前

            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.

              • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
                1·
                2 小時前

                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

                • 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  1·
                  12 分鐘前

                  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

              • lyrial@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                3·
                8 小時前

                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.”

                • 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  2·
                  7 小時前

                  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.”

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      33 分鐘前

      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)

    • Sunspear@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      9 小時前

      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

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 小時前

        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

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      12·
      11 小時前

      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

  • NoWay@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 小時前

    Hey now they aren’t child eating… That’s the controled opposition…