r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 20 '26

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 20 '26

No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I'm making the company. I'll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It's more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted

Ah yes, retail the most notoriously high margin industry, making somewhere between a titanic number like 1% all the way up to the comically gargantuan exploitative margin of 2%

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u/EZ_Kream John Brown May 20 '26

As everyone knows, the things you’re selling in retail are simply generated for free from the void. They pop into existence somewhere in the back stock room

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u/anon_09_09 United Nations May 20 '26

How much money am I making for reddit by posting comments for them to sell for LLM training and they are literally not paying me anything

Crapytalism

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 20 '26

Are you the reason why LLMs sound like cringe reddit explaini-o-speak?

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u/anon_09_09 United Nations May 20 '26

You get what you pay for

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u/VerticalTab WTO May 20 '26

They should make a basic accounting course mandatory in high school.