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[–] corsicanguppy 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The yellow vs green circle is what I've chosen to sell my time for. It's a choice.

The taxes portion is also a choice, but I only get to choose whether and how much to fund schools and hospitals and accessible healthcare on a 5 year ticket.

I'm only glad that the bundle i pick that goes status-quo on healthcare and schools is also the one that doesn't hate brown people or women AND has a chance of getting to run the show.

Sorry, I forgot what we were talking about. How does anarchy fund accessible healthcare again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The late stage anarchy threat is over there. Here we criticize capitalism. Or are you looking for the apathics anonymous? Or the bootlickers forums?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So are you actually interested in what anarchism looks like or just going for a gotcha because based on you calling it anarchy I'm guessing the second one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Who says we arent mad about both, but we are more complicit with the green bit, thats what makes our cars, phones, and all the things "they" need us to have to be efficient workers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

noice 👏

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yellow vs green circle proportions are the results of class struggle

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Because basically nobody you know can even do their own taxes or read above an 8th grade level? Fucking nobody you ask has an answer to a best estimate of their "total economic value". Anyone who CAN give that estimate is outside the target audience of this post.

Should people be paid more? For sure yes. Do you think the target audience of this post can even accurately tell you the value of both gross income and AGI? Lol no.

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

this is oversimplified and doesn't include taxes on those profits among other things.

the example is disingenuous and was made to manufacture an emotional response.

taxation without representation is worse than loss of potential individual profits and generally leads to fascist ideologies circumventing socioeconomic protections put in place by proletariat supporting leadership.

at the core, the problem isn't your lack of profits, rather the erosion of democracy and rise of fascism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"taxation without representation is worse than loss of potential individual profits"

no it aint

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is actually the least emotional way to put it. If you want compilcated maybe Lemmy is the wrong place to look for it? And most of all profit is profit, you don't have individual and non-individual. What is important is that we don't get how much is justified to be booked on the owners' accounts. Speaking of representaion. Profit is after wages, after social, and often not taxed. The only way to speak of profit going to labour is whe the own the means of production. Fascism doesn't get in the way of profits, hence the capitalist support for it.

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