• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “Nearly half of US employees admit to time theft!”

    Nah, it’s the other way around. Company profits of any kind are wage theft.

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      I mean a company does need to make profit. Excessive profits is another thing.

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        Yeah the “great work guys, we doubled the EBITDA this year. Congratulations!..Here’s your 3% raise” kind of sucks

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          Yup, I agree. But you know, if I don’t have that trillion dollars in my bank account yet, I can’t afford to give you more.

          /s

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        Nope, any profits not reinvested in the company itself, or the employees is wage theft. Full stop. Capitalism is a scam we’ve been fed so rich assholes can get richer.

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          I think it’s a bit unfair to blanket statement that capitalism is a scam. There need to be checks in place. Like, I agree it’s not fair that me as a business owner can simply say “this year we are skipping raises, and I am paying myself 2 billion”. There’s no reason any one person needs a trillion dollars. That’s an insane amount of money. Even 100 million is a shit ton of money. There definitely need to be checks in place, but I don’t think communism is the answer either.

          Nope, any profits not reinvested in the company itself

          This isn’t clear to me what you’re saying “nope” to. How I said companies need to make profit? If so, they do. If they do not make profit they lose money, if they lose money they can’t reinvest into themselves or pay wages. Or maybe I misunderstand what you meant by “nope”.

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            capitalism is not only a scam to prop up our owners and make us slave away for them but its also destroying the literal planet we live in to keep them in power.

            the only way capitalism can be good is when it dies.

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        No they do not. They need to break even only. Profit is the result of charging customers too much, paying employees too little, or enshitification.

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            23 hours ago

            Worker productivity is like holding sand. It you grab it and squeeze it hard, it just runs through your fingers and falls to the ground. But if you cup your hands and support it carefully you can hold on to much larger amounts of it.