…and:
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Enshittify things
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Cut benefits
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Raise benefit costs
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Unbundle things to charge you more
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Add “convenient” fees
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Subscriptions for everything, even your car’s built in features
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Make you work longer, off the clock, at home, on weekends, with fewer staff to do the job
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Pressure you into not taking time off
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Understaffing, perpetually
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Replace humans with AI
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Hope you die quick when you lose your job because you got a debilitating illness and no longer have the insurance you spent years or decades paying into
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Donate billions to politicians that will slash corporate and rich people taxes, and cut government services, so that everything from public education to your wait times at the DMV gets worse
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buy all the homes to make them unaffordable, forcing you to rent, then jacking up rent to keep you from getting ahead
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Imagine if wage theft was treated the same as petty theft. Some sweaty fuck looking shifty at an excel document, and then three cops kick open the door. “ON THE GROUND STOP RESISTING HE’S GOT A GUN”
BANG BANG BANG. BANG.
Newspapers all like “The manager was no angel…”
I imagine the country where most of them lived had weapons freely available for purchase and their private jets were traceable in real time.
Damn I would watch this movie.
Today I went on reddit with a throwaway, one of those times when it’s useful, you know. Please don’t shame. Anyway I decided to take the temperature and opened a few random posts from the front page. The antifascism is there still, bits of it. But the discourse is mostly neutered, complacent. Ignorant. Hateful. There was a post showing SpaceX’s rocket doing a controlled landing, called “Musk’s rocket…” and one single comment going “SpaceX’s rocket, not Musk” and the replies to that comment were the most vile billionaire simping you can imagine.
Honestly, that’s not really accurate. I mean, yes, they’re making more off you than you make and yes they aren’t paying you what they should. But if there’s a thousand employees in a company and they are all, on average, getting short changed by $50k a year, thats only $50M. They are definitely taking advantage of you in MANY ways… You can do the math, but thats not how you get to be a bezos or musk level multi-billionaire.
You get there by gambling and controlling a market… Stocks and equity, backroom dealing, boardroom takeovers, pump and dump, creative leveraged buyouts, market manipulation, speculative investments, insider trading, foreign investment, buying off government workers, lobbying, using slave labor, and not paying taxes (sometimes even legally but really obfuscated).
There’s under paying salaries and then there’s being the top tier shitty humans these people are.
Yeah, I mean that’s the whole excess labor value theory of Marxist thought, right?
It’s not just outright wage theft - it’s that your labor is being used to create additional value above what you’re paid and that is what’s making the borgeousie rich. Obviously this is dumbed down to a sentence and this isn’t me disagreeing just adding add’l context for other readers.
We definitely get screwed so so sooo many ways on the whole of it by the 1% capitalist class.
You can do the math, but thats not how you get to be a bezos or musk level multi-billionaire.
Maybe not by itself, but I bet it helps.
They steal a lot more than that. Here is a non-exhaustive list: your health both mental and physical, time with your loved ones, your hopes/dreams, ultimately your life.
Earning a billion dollars is well doable. At my current wage if I work for 2 years invest it all in the s&p500 then live to 126 I’ve earned a billion dollars. Anyone who can do math can see this is a lie
If you want to work for equity rather than salary, like many people who ended up billionaires did, you can look for an early-stage startup but that has serious downsides and isn’t a good idea for most people.
You’re a billionaire?
no, you?
