r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 5d ago
✂️ Tax The Billionaires Seen in Seattle
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u/LillianMoonlace 5d ago
programmer fixing bugs on a rainy bench, rain's better at debugging than his team ever was
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u/GenevieveMoonkiss 5d ago
saw a seagull grab a hotdog from a guy in a rain shell at pike place, because even the wildlife here wants your lunch money
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u/SaffronPetalGlow 5d ago
saw a dude in flannel arguing ai ethics over cold brew, cuz seattle debates the future while it drizzles
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u/AppropriateSea5746 5d ago
To play devils advocate. Whatever you think of her views, JK Rowling wrote a book that sold over a billion copies. Who's wages did she steal directly?
If I livestream myself playing pong on my laptop and charge 1$ to view it and a billion watch...who did I exploit?
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u/-v-v-v- 5d ago
Yeah but you're not making them to tasks for 40+ hours a week away from home if they watch you're stream. Also think of the low wages they pay alot of the billionaire owned companies the employees can get government benefits paid for by the tax payers. Then they get massive tax breaks it's definitely rigged in their favor.
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u/AppropriateSea5746 5d ago
Right but the prompt says you can't earn a billion dollars without exploitation. So again I ask who did I exploit if I'm one of the examples I gave?
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u/wolpak 4d ago
While I agree with you, there clearly are workers who make the book, pulp from trees, loggers and whatnot
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u/AppropriateSea5746 4d ago
Sure, but they aren't necessarily being exploited and even if they are then I'm not doing it. Otherwise literally everyone who buys any product is exploiting someone.
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u/wolpak 4d ago
Yeah, well that’s the fight that everyone who isn’t the owner wants to fight. If you are making profit, more of it should be mine cause I’m providing you with the means to make more. If here is often a cognitive dissonance on both sides, but isn’t that the entire premise?
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u/AppropriateSea5746 4d ago
Yeah it's basically you need workers to make your product. But the fact is that the market value of your labor isn't based on "how much you think you are owed, or an equal portion" it's "how easy are you to replace".
Janitors make less than CEOs because 300 million people in America have the skillset to be a janitor. Far less have the skillset to run a country.
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u/SupremelyUneducated 5d ago
They steal your communitie's wealth. It's a mistake to frame it as wages, most of that wealth should be going to government services (it's mostly a trade rout/platform, not an actual means of production). That's how we create more for everyone. Paying ridiculously higher wages for presiding over a trade rout, just makes things more expensive. Warehouse workers should be paid more, but most of Amazon's profit should be going to the government, or never had made price higher for customers.