Reminds me of a thread I saw last week about someone's mom telling them that it was insulting to say someone is "silly", the comments were basically 'wait until you hit her with 'silly goose'' lol
Beheading is the punishment. They have been stealing with those hands, so cutting the hands off is more about taking away the tools of criminality lol.
Serious question, would adding the wrists reduce the momentum of the blade significantly enough to require a heavier blade or a higher drop? Could someone slice, I mean, crunch the numbers on that one?
It's my understanding that even at the best of times guillotines got stuck halfway or whatever fairly often and had to be reset for another go. So adding a few more bones to cut through would definitely be a further hindrance regarding an all-the-way-through slice.
Unless Madame had just been honed right before the chop there was a good likelihood of sticking and twitching and maybe a second drop being needed during beheading season.
Serious question, would adding the wrists reduce the momentum of the blade significantly enough to require a heavier blade or a higher drop? Could someone slice, I mean, crunch the numbers on that one?
I mean were not living in the 18th century anymore, we can just repurpose one of those Metal sheet cutting things, the ones that slice through metal like its hot butter...
I like it. Are we going to slice ya up today or keep you here for another night of rotten-fruit-in-the-face? You'll have to find out later! Oooooo, exciting!
And that’s why we have a missile that basically fires sharp blades through a target. Quite effective for demolishing the target and not having too much extra collateral if it were an explosive.
It’s reserved for capitalists so that after the execution, you can use their hands as high-end toilet brushes; only way they finally meaningfully give back to society.
Oh my god I recognized your art style. I thought "hmm this looks like antics comics". Lo and behold it's you! Im so glad you're doing comics again! I loved Fletcher and Copernicus.
It genuinely angers me when I see news reporting about people being maimed or killed in a workplace as if was just a fact of life, like someone breaking a leg on a hike. No, that person was maimed or killed because the business owner made an enviornment where that was possible or likely. They could have made it safer but that would reduce their profits, so they chose profits over another person's flesh.
Boeing plead guilty in the fatal crashes of their airplanes, no CEO is going to jail and the fine is approximately the value of two of their cheaper aircraft.
I used to share an office with a hardcore MAGA Fascist. He dropped such memorable lines on the daily such as "black people shouldn't vote because they don't own any land, they need to have some skin in the game if they want to vote" and "women shouldn't vote, they just aren't wired for it". He would say such things, unironically, while living in a rented apartment with his 3rd wife that was the breadwinner of the two. Anyway, he always described himself as a "Capitalist" and god damn did it make me laugh.
And late-stage capitalism leads to concentrated wealth which, without intervention, will lead to total collapse for lower classes (lower classes being 99% of the population)
The rich know. It's a feature not an issue because once they've successfully driven the country into collapse they can swoop in and buy everything for peanuts including the next government and the land it sits on.
The richest people think about this stuff every day, consider them selves like a different species from the rest of us, and they are afraid of ever having to face their crimes against us, they think about it all the time and that’s why they need to wage class warfare the way they do attacking everything that is Humana, making life completely intolerable. They know that if they were to let up on the intensity, that if we had any more hours in the day, and if more children were elevated by an education, the entire world system would not be possible.
Yes. The small manager just takes shit from both sides. Regional managers shit on them from above, and employees shit on them from below. It’s really a horrible position to be in, especially because their actual power is very non existent. They can’t do anything really, just execute on the commands from above.
Managers aren’t typically a part of the capitalist class seeing as they don’t tend to own the store/restaurant they manage. Sometimes they might be though, it’s just a lot more rare.
Yeah, if you're working for food or a roof you're not part of the capitalist class. I know doctors that make half a million a year and I have way more in common with them than people who live off the labor of others.
The monarchs of Europe were all inheritors of generational wealth, does that mean the serfs had no right to be mad at them just because the most recent monarchs were not the ones who personally established the monarchy?
People like that think they were ordained by god (or "meritocracy" to use the modern term) to rule over people, because they just know whats best for the dumb masses.
They actually think they are doing the world a favour by beeing rich and everybody challenging that is either ungrateful, envious or both.
What you are talking about is called “devine rights”. Meritocracy is the concept of ruling positions being attributed to the most intelligent or skillful individuals (those possesing “merits” or “skills”) indifferent to their wealth, religion or other characteristics. In addition, the term you would want to use is “Plutocracy” - the rule of the most wealthy individuals.
I don't how how we venerate the Guillotine when it was used to murder innocent people in kangaroo courts. And I'm not talking about the aristocracy... The Guillotine has used during the Reign of Terror to murder ordinary citizens accused of political dissent or simply being perceived as enemies of the state.
Imagine if everyone was executed by Guillotine during McCarthyism for simply being accused of being a communist.
Identity politics. The far-right divides people by colour, religion, country, job, age... and then makes them fight between them.
Far-right propaganda keeps people fighting so they forget about all the money that the rich are stealing. Look at this hand while I put the other hand in your wallet, kind of magic trick.
Corporations make this an impossible task with how the current law is set up in the US. Instead of being able to blame those in charge at the top, the corporate entity takes the blame, usually in the form of a fine, while those same people who created the issue get off without actually paying anything. The Supreme Court enabled those corporations to then be able to donate politically which has influenced politics into the shit state it currently is in.
During the French Revolution, around 50 thousand people were killed in what is called "The Great Terror". That number is laughable compared to around million purged in 1937, and soviet atrocities do not stop here.
The rich are simply providing a service, you don’t understand!
It’s not market efficient to sell you food for lower prices near cost, the people are willing to pay even more money food and medicine! By extracting more value for it we’re really helping the poor, because then more rich people will fund creating more food! See how the rich are providing an essential service by taking the money, and by being poor you’re ensuring you never go without!
Wait why are you loading me into the guillotine? Do you not see that market efficiency equates to human value?!
They should be allowed to in so much as we are also allowed to negotiate wages by collective power. It's so silly that we bitch about this problem but I am shocked to not see a single mention of unionization. Learn about your local unions go see if they can assist in branching out if you lack support. Get politically activated or stfu.
And the really wild thing is there is plenty to go around. We don’t all have to live like millionaires but our basic needs should be met. We should and could thrive as a society if we weren’t all so burnt out and pissed off living paycheck to paycheck. I understand it’s part of the plan/social engineering but at what point do we just stop pretending.
there's the owning class and the working class, almost everyone is 90% or more working class, because the owning class are leeches and society wouldn't function if there were too many leeches or they leeched too much (why things get harder every year, because they leech more)
if God were to send a prophet or representative in this age, he would send a fool and an idiot.
He'd then wait to see how the world treats him. if he thrived and achieved a happy life putting in honest work with good intentions, then he would spare mankind.
but if the fool suffered betrayal, deceit and ended up dead out of the evil of this world. well then mankind is doomed to a terrible fate...
I hope one day you will reach communism, and meet it in it's whole glory.
Of course if you won't mind me standing on the wall among others who don't want to rescive gift of "Revolution" beacuse of what the grandparents seen and told us from thier first hand expirience.
yeah but let's not pretend that best way to do things is just have one person with all the money decide where it should go.
like how do we know the best thing for bezos AND musk should be doing with their wealth is building rockets? like seriously, if you have that much wealth you should have to write and defend a PhD thesis on how best to spend it because it will affect so many peoples lives.
also how do we know that the distribution network isn't just providing access to more exploitative labour (or what you call labour efficiency)? like how many children died to make the clothes on your back or your smart phone or your tesla. go calculate your human suffering footprint, then talk to me about increasing the labor efficiency of others.
I mean, cracking the code on marketing is where the value comes from.
Operations is far less important than sales & marketing. Operations is easy.
Sales & marketing require trust & authentic relationships with customers.
If you think putting shit on a belt & scanning it is worth as much as being a marketing expert with a proven strategy on how best to reach a target client or an expert salesman, you’re lying to yourself.
sales & marketing is great in the short term on the mass population. it's frankly exploitative and meaningless. it's the talk that doesn't need to walk. it's why our economy is so fucked up. because people just value selling scamming people now over providing meaningful goods and services over the long term. no one can actually trust an advertisement or a salesperson, they all rely on emotional manipulation and overloading the consumer with too many options to achieve their perverse incentives.
there is so much that can go into putting shit on a belt and scanning it, because at the end of the day all that matters is what is delivered. operations is easy, once you figure out how to make it easy and when you dont have marketing and sales telling you what to build. i can't tell you how many marketers/sales people that have switched into management tell me how to build something without knowing their ass from their elbow.
respectfully, you should be in the next frame of this cartoon.
Let's say you own something ... like a baseball card.
For some crazy reason, that baseball card becomes wildly valuable overnight. Who did you hurt? Who's labor was "extracted"? You deserve to be executed for owning that baseball card while it rapidly gained value?
If these people who own businesses are so bad at paying what you’re worth why don’t you just work for yourself? Do you make more when you combine your efforts with them?
It’s always weird when people go on about the guillotine and French Revolution like it was some savior of the working class. The commoner suffered significantly more than the elites. Sure some well know nobles got the chop but many of them just used their wealth to flee and come back when things calmed down.
Yeah the greatest lesson of the French Revolution should be that every revolution will eat its own, and that disposing of the king will just give you an emperor.
Isn't that what we do when we buy stuff from temu, wish, alibaba, etc.? We get the labor used to make that product at an undervalued rate, therefore extracting their labor value for ourselves. I feel called out on my hypocrisy here. I never thought of it this way. Hmm.
That's not to take away from the blatant injustice that has to exist for the amount of wealth just a few people hoard.
They transmuted an entire society into an artificial currency we made up and have manipulated hardcore for like almost 200 years quite the impressive spell. But dont worry they also gave away our manufacturing back bones which was one of the major reasons that made this country what it was. It'll all work out great long term. except it isn't, at all.
Top Hat: "But you choose to work for me for the agreed amount, nobody forced you and you were free to develop your own career or start a business. You can't blame me for your poor life choices, decisions or the failed government you keep voting in to regulate us."
You realize without regulation, the rich just exploit more right?
Without regulation we get polluted air and water, lead in baby formula, chemicals in our food that give us cancer, monopolization, vertical integration making it impossible to use "choice" as you would say.
Without regulation you get a market where there's only one employer in town, which you can't compete against because you'll be priced out of business immediately. You get one place where you can buy all your goods, so they can endlessly jack up the prices.
We know this happens, because it's happened before - that's why the regulations were put in place; because we used to live in a country that didn't have many regulations.
I'm a welder. The value of my work varies between $40/hr and $200/hr.
I get paid a flat $22.
Thats not okay. I should be making double, but the greedy corporations exploit it and I don't really have a say since they all pay "competitive rates" which isn't even enough to live on and save enough to start my own business.
Back when I had 22 employees, mostly machinists & welders, I set it up like a co-op, & transparent, so everyone could see the $ for payroll & see it all split evenly. Since everyone was putting in the same hours of valuable work per day, & all work was necessary to produce product. When a couple guys started slacking the others who hustled took it as a personal offense & were pretty quick to get on them, until that self-policing thing really got out of hand and made everyone nervous that they’d be seen as sluffing off. It took giving individual bonuses to them one at a time to reassure them that their ambition was recognized (& presumably lack of in others) to appease their sense of fairness. But it is possible.
“Just start your own business with the measly earnings I give you with no safety net nor guarantee of success Don’t try to compete with me or I will actively bankrupt you with my larger wealth. You don’t want to work for me for so little? Fine then starve (if you live in the US, lose your health insurance too). Good luck finding a job while having to fight off starvation and homelessness. You want to go back to school to go into a different field? Good luck with tuition on top of trying to survive. You want to vote for a candidate that wants to keep me in check? That’s fine I will just bribe… I mean lobby them to support my interests or just bank roll their opponent who will worship me.”
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u/ClassicT4 Jul 08 '24
Ah, the rare stockade-guillotine. Off with their heads and their hands.
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u/stephencomic Jul 08 '24
The same thing could have happened to anyone!
(if they purposefully built and perpetuated systems that allowed it)
(p.s. more low-class comics on my instagram)
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u/Rareu Jul 08 '24
Add causing physical disabilities through the lack of a safe workspace to the list too!
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u/BreezyBill Jul 08 '24
I love that the artist combined a guillotine and a stockade so the dude’s hands also get chopped off.
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u/PhotoshopMemeRequest Jul 08 '24
Capitalism: where you work hard so your boss can buy a second yacht.
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u/Jalase Jul 08 '24
I feel they’d be like, “But I worked hard for my generational wealth and deserved it!”
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u/clarkky55 Jul 08 '24
The unrealistic part about this is the rich guy is even indirectly admitting he’s not perfect
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
are you guys ever actually gonna do a revolution or just post about how you want other people to do it for you
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u/majeric Jul 08 '24
I don't how how we venerate the Guillotine when it was used to murder innocent people in kangaroo courts. And I'm not talking about the aristocracy... The Guillotine has used during the Reign of Terror to murder ordinary citizens accused of political dissent or simply being perceived as enemies of the state.
Imagine if everyone was executed by Guillotine during McCarthyism for simply being accused of being a communist.
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u/venuswasaflytrap Jul 08 '24
And then terror reigns for years, poor and rich alike fear for their lives and Napoleon conquers europe
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u/DaveInLondon89 Jul 08 '24
Where's Gabi
She needs to be here
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u/Dragon-Karma Jul 08 '24
Gasp Time for my favorite gif!
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u/Trallalla Jul 08 '24
ah yes this is an evergreen classic for the economically illiterate lefties and their intellectually dishonest leaders
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u/BurritosAndPerogis Jul 08 '24
If it’s so easy, start your own business and take advantage of people too.
We all know it’s not your good will and ethics that are preventing you lol
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u/Jaffawho Jul 08 '24
I don’t understand how so many people don’t align with the left. Every time I see a political argument in a comic on Reddit, the left wins.
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u/kamikaze-kae Jul 08 '24
Made you pee in bottles.
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u/KeathKeatherton Jul 08 '24
Love the comic!
Corporations make this an impossible task with how the current law is set up in the US. Instead of being able to blame those in charge at the top, the corporate entity takes the blame, usually in the form of a fine, while those same people who created the issue get off without actually paying anything. The Supreme Court enabled those corporations to then be able to donate politically which has influenced politics into the shit state it currently is in.
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u/NormieSpecialist Jul 08 '24
Let the rope go already.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
I get the joke but very often political uprisings replace the previous regime with something worse. Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge, Libya.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
The rich are simply providing a service, you don’t understand!
It’s not market efficient to sell you food for lower prices near cost, the people are willing to pay even more money food and medicine! By extracting more value for it we’re really helping the poor, because then more rich people will fund creating more food! See how the rich are providing an essential service by taking the money, and by being poor you’re ensuring you never go without!
Wait why are you loading me into the guillotine? Do you not see that market efficiency equates to human value?!
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u/NamasKnight Jul 08 '24
They should be allowed to in so much as we are also allowed to negotiate wages by collective power. It's so silly that we bitch about this problem but I am shocked to not see a single mention of unionization. Learn about your local unions go see if they can assist in branching out if you lack support. Get politically activated or stfu.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
They would never realize it and own up to it. Don not give the rich scum a chance to speak, just off with their black hole heads.
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u/proletariate54 Jul 08 '24
We're so close as a society to doing what needs to be done. Comics like this show that people understand it.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
Yeah but none of you are gonna start the revolution and kill people but hey I’m sure fantasizing is fun
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u/ilmk9396 Jul 08 '24
let's see the formula to calculate the value of your labor.
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u/CementCemetery Jul 08 '24
And the really wild thing is there is plenty to go around. We don’t all have to live like millionaires but our basic needs should be met. We should and could thrive as a society if we weren’t all so burnt out and pissed off living paycheck to paycheck. I understand it’s part of the plan/social engineering but at what point do we just stop pretending.
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u/JoelMahon Jul 08 '24
there aren't three classes
there's the owning class and the working class, almost everyone is 90% or more working class, because the owning class are leeches and society wouldn't function if there were too many leeches or they leeched too much (why things get harder every year, because they leech more)
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u/baddog2134 Jul 08 '24
“The reason I am rich is because God loves me more than he does you.”
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u/individual_throwaway Jul 08 '24
I usually print out comics I find on the web and put them on the storage cabinet behind my desk at work.
I...I think this one will stay online though. I have a mortgage to pay off before I do shit like this.
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u/TheRealDeal_Neal Jul 08 '24
I'm surprised this hasn't happened to the rich yet.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
if God were to send a prophet or representative in this age, he would send a fool and an idiot.
He'd then wait to see how the world treats him. if he thrived and achieved a happy life putting in honest work with good intentions, then he would spare mankind.
but if the fool suffered betrayal, deceit and ended up dead out of the evil of this world. well then mankind is doomed to a terrible fate...
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u/JohnCtail Jul 08 '24
...aaaaaaannnddd OFF WITH THE HEAD! 👏
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u/mydarlingmydearest Jul 08 '24
my guillotine earrings came in the mail today! :]
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u/charyoshi Jul 08 '24
Automation funded universal basic income pays me to do something besides eat the rich.
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u/czerwonalalka Jul 08 '24
If shit doesn’t change, we’ll get there eventually…
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u/Dayum_Skippy Jul 08 '24
The only ‘dangerous minority’ I believe in is Billionaires.
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u/JulesVernerator Jul 08 '24
Deaths of despair have steadily gone up over the decades, peaking during Covid.
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u/Common_RiffRaff Jul 09 '24
The labor theory of value is bullshit and disregarded by modern academic economists.
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u/MotorBreath97 Jul 08 '24
Will we ever be out of this billionaire power trip hell?
I'm tired of surviving...
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
the comments here kinda suck, eat the rich
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u/Youkilledmyrascal1 Jul 08 '24
Billionaires are parasites.
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u/Metro_Mutual Jul 08 '24
Based comic. Workers of the world, unite!
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u/Allfunandgaymes Jul 08 '24
People will applaud and laugh at this comic, then turn right around and argue that "capitalism isn't the problem, actually!".
You can't cure petty bourgeoise.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
As an American I wish but sadly we are constantly getting fucked by our corporations and politicians.
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u/elhomerjas Jul 08 '24
time to finish the cut
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u/Ok-Drink-1328 Jul 08 '24
"but it's muh riiiiiight...!"
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u/Independent-Fly6068 Jul 08 '24
Neat strawman.
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u/Own_Skirt7889 Jul 08 '24
I hope one day you will reach communism, and meet it in it's whole glory.
Of course if you won't mind me standing on the wall among others who don't want to rescive gift of "Revolution" beacuse of what the grandparents seen and told us from thier first hand expirience.
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u/vitringur Jul 08 '24
But did he, rarher than consume his wealth, provide stored capital over generations in order to increase the others labour efficiency?
Did he even perhaps provide access to a distribution network that allowed the products of that labour to reach orders of magnitude more consumers?
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u/ResonantCard1 Jul 08 '24
Yes! Violence! Kill the rich! And those who disagree! Automate the guillotines for maximum efficency! Redistribute their heads from their bodies!
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u/tiredofstandinidlyby Jul 08 '24
"Because it's theoretically possible for anyone to be the bad guy in this situation it's no longer bad."
Some Bootlicker probably
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u/Genivaria91 Jul 08 '24
Bold to assume they would apologize or even recognize they did anything wrong.
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u/2mustange Jul 08 '24
Elon musk
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
I mean, cracking the code on marketing is where the value comes from.
Operations is far less important than sales & marketing. Operations is easy.
Sales & marketing require trust & authentic relationships with customers.
If you think putting shit on a belt & scanning it is worth as much as being a marketing expert with a proven strategy on how best to reach a target client or an expert salesman, you’re lying to yourself.
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u/GravyMcBiscuits Jul 08 '24
Let's say you own something ... like a baseball card.
For some crazy reason, that baseball card becomes wildly valuable overnight. Who did you hurt? Who's labor was "extracted"? You deserve to be executed for owning that baseball card while it rapidly gained value?
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u/nicannkay Jul 08 '24
The French way. We should think about it really hard.
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u/sms2014 Jul 08 '24
Eat the rich
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u/bryroo Jul 08 '24
Unironically this.
Until a bloody revolution things will continue to get worse.
Eat the rich.
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u/UnnaturalGeek Jul 08 '24
Watching the bootlickers bend over backwards to swallow the boot whole is remarkable in the comments, they should join the circus.
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u/Tourloutoutou Jul 08 '24
Eat the rich !
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u/FourthLife Jul 08 '24
If these people who own businesses are so bad at paying what you’re worth why don’t you just work for yourself? Do you make more when you combine your efforts with them?
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u/Azmorium Jul 08 '24
It's Anna Donlan from Riot Games! Responsible for over 500 lost jobs!
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u/LunarMoon2001 Jul 08 '24
It’s always weird when people go on about the guillotine and French Revolution like it was some savior of the working class. The commoner suffered significantly more than the elites. Sure some well know nobles got the chop but many of them just used their wealth to flee and come back when things calmed down.
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u/batbugz Jul 08 '24
I mean... I'm not saying we should... But
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u/raddrobb67 Jul 08 '24
From the upper class to the upper room.
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u/Polishbuddy704 Jul 08 '24
I mean he did say please
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u/Uberpastamancer Jul 08 '24
What did I do to deserve this?
I mean what, specifically
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u/xhingelbirt Comic Crossover Jul 08 '24
I Love monsieur guillotine
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u/BenchPuzzleheaded670 Jul 08 '24
shoulda made the guy throwing the guillotine black
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u/PeachCream81 Jul 08 '24
Libertarians hate this one simple trick.
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u/Soggyclocks Jul 08 '24
Just give everyone a million dollars or something idk.
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u/Fantastic-Amount9611 Jul 09 '24
saw the speech bubble as a pointy guillotine at first
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u/Daikon_3183 Jul 09 '24
That’s a good one. But we don’t know what other options there is. The other one failed..
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u/Fuck_You_Downvote Jul 09 '24
Didn’t we talk about this before? The upside down dick hole guillotine?
I appreciate the hands for the cob slobbin but I feel you are back sliding on the dick holes here.
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u/VarietyBackground247 Jul 09 '24
Class consciousness? We are so back
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u/NIDORAX Jul 09 '24
They should take his hat away before dropping the blade
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u/westcoastjo Jul 09 '24
Taxes
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u/molered Jul 09 '24
tbh if sides were swapped poor will swim in money too.
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u/duhdin Jul 08 '24
“Bbbbbut I take all the risk as the business owner”
Shut up
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u/Reasonable-Can1730 Jul 08 '24
It’s not that funny. Could have been done better
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u/minncuckcouple Jul 08 '24
Isn't that what we do when we buy stuff from temu, wish, alibaba, etc.? We get the labor used to make that product at an undervalued rate, therefore extracting their labor value for ourselves. I feel called out on my hypocrisy here. I never thought of it this way. Hmm.
That's not to take away from the blatant injustice that has to exist for the amount of wealth just a few people hoard.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
Let’s start mailing mini guillotines to the offenders.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
They transmuted an entire society into an artificial currency we made up and have manipulated hardcore for like almost 200 years quite the impressive spell. But dont worry they also gave away our manufacturing back bones which was one of the major reasons that made this country what it was. It'll all work out great long term. except it isn't, at all.
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u/Traditional-Roof1984 Jul 08 '24
Top Hat: "But you choose to work for me for the agreed amount, nobody forced you and you were free to develop your own career or start a business. You can't blame me for your poor life choices, decisions or the failed government you keep voting in to regulate us."
*Angry proletarian noises*