I worked union construction for 15 years and 90% of those guys are die hard MAGA
Love the downvotes, Lemmy is still confused that there are people who absolutely love and vote for Dickfingers McGee even after everything he has done
This was literally 2 weeks ago:
GEORGIA RUNOFF: Republican prosecutor Clay Fuller won today’s special election in Georgia to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House, NBC News projects. He defeated Democrat Shawn Harris.
Haha, it’s usually worse than that. Especially if you do manual labor and don’t have a union. Friend of mine was receiving 6% of the value of his labor after we calculated it.
I wish I made 6% of the value of my labor. My power plant has $1M+ days sometimes and there’s only 30 of us running it. I make good money, but not $30k/day good. A couple months ago when we saw sustained deep freeze temperatures for like a week straight, we saw $5M+ days.
We also work crazy hours for those situations. Last week I pulled 72, and the next couple weeks will be 84 hours. But at least they ordered pizza for us.
When they make that much money, why don’t they hire another 30 or 60 people so everyone can have a normal 32h work week? Are the employee benefits really that good that it’s worth it? I hope they are much more than just pizza. Why would you let yourself be exploited by them, on such an insane level that you are willing to work almost triple work weeks? They are stealing your life while having the financial luxury to just hire more. Have you talked to your union? Work to live, don’t live to work mate.
Lol there isn’t a union here and my coworkers are too brainwashed to understand that a union would benefit them.
I would love for a Danish company to headhunt me and yank me over to Denmark. I don’t think that’s gonna happen though.
In my country (the Netherlands) there is help for expats to settle. Getting a job, house, etc. There’s even a tax cut for expats if you have a specialized job. Denmark might have something similar, I’m not sure. Their language is a pain to learn though (not like my language is fun lol). But like the Dutch the Danish are very good with English, especially in cities. Getting a job while only speaking English is not a problem. Denmark is a beautiful and amazing country, with amazing people. But we have bitterballen.
Probably a combo of profiteering and a low number of applicants.
Are those figures revenue or profit?
Sheesh, if that doesn’t radicalize someone idk what does. Granted in your case a lot of that value comes from the constant capital of the plant itself but still, it is likely you make less than 6% yeah. My friends was easy to calculate because constant capital was relatively negligable.
That’s exactly it. Sure taxes take 40%, but capitalists take 100-1000% of your salary, and last I checked they don’t build roads and schools.
Okay so I was gonna respond sooner but I was super baked and unable to answer this when I saw it last night.
You should read Wage Labour and Capital by Marx for some added context, it is short.
Basically the value of a commodity is calculate by c + v + s. c being constant capital (the value of the means of production that has been degraded to create the commodity, hard to calculate without good info), v is the amount of paid labor (variable capital), and s being surplus value is the unpaid labor.
To calculate the value of your labor all you need to know is the constant capital used to produce whatever commodity you produce and the value of said commodity. By including your wage as v you can calculate the surplus value and then compare them to see what share of the value you produce you actually recieve.
It gets harder when you aren’t directly producing commodities which my friend was.
I did the same using GDP. About 10 years ago the numbers were like this in Canada: the average income was $56k the average tax burden is $7k and the GDP per WORKER was $90k. It’s so funny to watch people complain about the $7k the hobby takes to build society when you ignore the $44k in profit you generate for the rich.
The beauty of the stepped back approach is that because all wages are included and all economic output is captured you don’t need to solve for c, it’s included in wages and surplus value.
The machinery of capital is built on a large pile of labor + stolen surplus value all the way down to the raw material. So it’s all captured with the above.
Haha, you should try using the median income to adjust for outlier skewing. Also while it is true that constant capital becomes variable capital if you follow the production chain you should keep in mind that much of this production is done in the imperial periphery (and therefore not necessarily reflected in GDP per capita). Their exploitation is directly responsible for the purchasing power of our wages, in a way an hour of our labor purchases many many hours of theirs. If you are going to eliminate constant capital through the means suggested in your process, then you need to include the wages of workers of the periphery (often below the value of their labor power) in your average.
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The owner of the construction company is being paid for the work that their employees do. All of that money, after expenses, does not go to the people who did the actual construction.
If a private school makes 100 million a year in profit and pays you, the only employee 6 million that would be 6 percent of your value. I think.
6% is pretty good 💀
6% is not pretty good, it’s like if i make a cake and i can only eat 6% of it, dammit! i made it, lemme me eat at least half, then i can leave you whatever you want
Consider that many people in a business don’t provide any direct positive labor value, such as a business owner not doing any direct work that makes money
Yep, that’s why i ask for half, the other half will be split between them; I’d actually want a higher number but sadly we are in capitalism
He had a decent job for our area
I’d give 100% of my paycheck to a child that eats pedophiles
Buddy you have got to rephrase this.
It’s not my phrasing, take it up with the OP.
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Wait you pay that much in taxes in the US? I thought the silver lining of living in the US means lower taxes compared to countries with social security systems and universal healthcare.
That’s the line they feed us, for sure. But if you ever actually added up federal income tax, state income tax, state and local sales tax, Social Security tax, property tax and assorted taxes for any instance in which you might come into additional money (capital gains, interest, prize winnings, inheritance, etc. etc. etc.) most Americans would probably be shocked to learn what real percentage of our income we actually pay to the government.
This is a very good reminder to me. The rich pay comparatively little on things like gas taxes, retail tax, etc.
No - they just pretend taxes are lower to justify not using the tax money responsibly to provide social services.
Between federal income tax, social security, and medicaid my taxes come out to about 40% off the top. Then I have to pay state sales tax, local taxes, and in many states people also have to pay state sales tax.
What the hell? That is an effective tax that is higher than what I pay in one of the richest countries in Europe. Our highest tax bracket is around 50%, but only on that portion. Our effective tax is probably under 40%.
And we have actual social security and healthcare is covered.
How else are we supposed to pay oil companies and Monsanto massive subsidies to encourage them to keep participating in their wildly profitable businesses?
No see when people produce things they need to get taxed a lot so we can pay for the things they need like prisons, cops, anti homeless architecture, and the military.
But when people collect stock dividends or realize gains they only need to get taxed a little to cover the contracts they get to provide squalid food to public schools, fill textbooks with revisionist history, and prevent humanities education.
And of course the true patriots who get loans against the majority stake shares that they manipulate to steal the retirements of prolls and bribe politicians are welcomed to write those incurred debts off.
That’s the best part: We don’t know! There are so many taxes and fees and BS spread over so many things that it is very difficult to calculate the total percentage accurately. 40% seems high, but it’s probably not far off when you add everything up.
The biggest part of that is social insurance. It’s called a tax (FICA) in America to make people hate it.
And here’s the fun part: there’s an annual cap which is about the same as a construction worker’s salary. Once the cap app is reached they stop deducting it. So high earners only pay it for the first few pay periods of the year.
I remember the first time I earned more than the cap. I thought somebody had made a mistake when my take-home pay went up mysteriously in the middle of the year. So imagine: Bezos and friends are all done paying FICA in the first ten or fifteen minutes of the year.
Lower taxes (1-5%) is if you make more than 750,000 per hour or daily or weekly.
Trump paid for showing me (located with an european IP address and an european account) a facebook video ad boasting about how now overtime is tax exempt. It was awesome: it was an ai-generated pixar style ai slop about some men coming back after some work in oil field or coal mine and hugging their kids, opening the letter with a huge “pussy hair” signature saying that now overtime pay is not taxed.
He needs to be better receptive to capitalist propaganda. /s
In 2023-2024 I had a job where I quickly became aware that I was working much harder than they were paying me and I started to track every dollar against my efforts, becoming increasingly aware & bitter that 37% of my time there I was breaking my body as an unpaid volunteer because that’s how much the govt was deducting from my paychecks. And the net pay I was left with was not enough to survive. So glad I escaped & found a slightly better situation.
…and on top of that, you’ve got to pay taxes
What’s this about eating what now?
Try searching for Jerky in the PDF files.
This looks like slop. Maybe its just the Mexico filter that GPT uses.
We’re genuinely fucked as a species because of people like you.
Looking closer at the plant and random background object (door? cabinet? bulletin board?) it seems you’re probably right, well spotted :(
But but Dear Leader needs that money to invade Iran and Just Take The Oil!
It went from drill baby drill to kill baby kill
But why would you eat them if you want to fu… never mind
It’s done afterwards
Real praying mantis behavior right here. Do you think… No. No, that’s crazy.
The praying mantis has a triangular head. Illu minati’s eye is inside a triangle. Coincidence? I think not.
Man just wanted a quiet evening and got hit with a full conspiracy rant 😭
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This looks AI…
It’s literally a Wiki how image.
Christ fucking sake. People like you cannot be helped.
This is the new version of a very old call out - SHOPPED! when something look photo shopped back in the day
