• @xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    -3817 hours ago

    The common denominator is taxes. There is this unit circle visual that shows half of your work value taken from you directly by taxes, and prices are twice what they want to be (indirectly paying others taxes)… so an individual “feels” only 1/4 economic effectiveness, or 3/4 oppressed.

    • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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      3817 hours ago

      *Half of what is left after the CEO and shareholders take their cut. Taxes are a drop in the ocean compared to the excess labor value that is extracted before you even see a penny.

      • @xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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        -1917 hours ago

        Yes, corporate overhead is quite real, but it is literally zero effect for the self-employed… so by your logic all would be or become so to be rich by avoiding a CEO altogether.

        • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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          715 hours ago

          Are you seriously suggesting that all it should take to become rich is to do freelance work?

          The way people actually get rich is by exploiting the labor of others. Freelance work is only practical in very specific niches, and even then you’ll be forced to compete with conglomerates that have far greater resources.

          • halyk.the.red
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            12 hours ago

            Xia is failing to realize that the original post isn’t about self owned businesses, so their point doesn’t make sense in this context. Based on their other comments, they either don’t understand how discussions, debates, or arguments work, or they’re a troll, or they’re overly saturated on capitalist propoganda.

    • @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      1817 hours ago

      Cool, now how much of your work value is taken by people who did nothing but invest the generational wealth they got from their great great grandad laying claim to common natural resources? Surely that’s the bigger concern since it goes to rich peoples’ yachts instead of public services.

        • @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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          517 hours ago

          Both are spending appropriated by elected representatives in Congress. I’m referring to the portion of your work value that goes directly into the pockets of unelected capitalists.

    • @joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca
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      714 hours ago

      I would love to see the math behind that. Typically it’s a case where someone is effectively paying 25% of their income to taxes, but because they are too lazy to actually understand how taxes work they are easily convinced it’s well over 50%