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    3 months ago

    If you made $0.1 for every $1 Amazon made you’d have $28,100,000,000 dollars a year.

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        It’s known as surplus value. The amount of value created by a worker beyond what they’ve been paid to create it.

        If a worker is paid $10 an hour and produces $100 of value in that hour then they have created surplus value of $90. Surplus value is kept by the company as profit. Socialists argue the amount of surplus value taken by companies has grown exponentially since the industrial revolution where a single worker could produce massive amounts of value in a small amount of time. Wages have not increased to compensate for the massive increase in surplus value.

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          Oh yeah the gap in surplus value is ridiculous, and continues to get worse. Sorry my comment was meant as a lazy “and you too can have $28B” joke 🤣