Doesn’t need to be communism, just need a system in place to limit profits. Everyone but the most wealthy would end up with more money in their pockets if companies didn’t make billions in profit that goes to their owners and investors.
Their propaganda machine works so well, you’re proving it by bringing up all the usual talking points.
“They offer a good product so they deserve it.”
“They would leave if they were forced to reduce their profits.”
You know what countries can do? Get together and impose the same kind of rules to all companies no matter where they’re established. They can also decide to force companies to pay taxes based on where the revenue came from under the threat that they won’t be able to do business in their territory anymore.
It’s funny how in a previous conversation you were saying that people should be able to make donations to devs and you never thought “Hey, maybe it’s not normal that only 50% of what I pay ends up in the pockets of the people doing the actual work…” and you even suggest that art should be encouraged via tax redistribution. Well guess what, that wouldn’t be necessary if multimillionaires and billionaires didn’t exist in the first place.
People all around you are struggling and you’re defending the 1%, wake the fuck up.
That’s exactly what people should say, billionaires shouldn’t exist, it’s that simple. 80% of US citizens live paycheck to paycheck, people have a hard time affording to pay for basic needs, meanwhile you’ve got companies that take a big enough cut on everything they sell that their owner can afford to spend in a day more than the average person will make in their whole life without having to even think about the impact that will have on their ability to pay their bills.
The wealth they accumulate comes directly from our pockets, stop defending them, they exist because we pay more for things than they’re truly worth.
With a 30% cut they make enough surplus that the owner is a billionaire that can afford 6 yacht, there’s no reason why you or anyone should defend Valve’s decision to be so profitable instead of making games cheaper and that applies to any company where the owner is rich.
If they want to ban AR-15s, they should ban all semi-automatic rifles otherwise it would be ridiculous.
And if they ban all those guns they should finish the job while they’re at it and just ban guns, glad we agree.
My first reaction as well, that’s exactly the way Trump talks
I hope for you that you’re a white man then
And they’re people that pledge allegiance to the flag and Constitution every morning
5:30pm East
Possible to stream from the White House’s website or to stream from a bunch media YouTube channels (APNews will have it).
“Ok, we’ll take the money back then.”
Republicans: “Noooooooo!”
If you let Nazis in your house and kick out people saying they don’t want to hang around Nazis, what does that make you?
Source and quote?
Funny how going the opposite way (super high to super low taxes for the rich) didn’t require violence or authoritarians in power…
Sure but if subscriptions were stagnating before and they’re increasing more than ever, it ends up compensating for the loss of people who used to pay more.
Subscribers are subscribers are subscribers, the total is up so even if they lost some in the US/European market, the rest of the world makes up for it.
It can’t emulate Reddit as long as tweet length is capped for free users
Unless it’s one nominated by a Republican president, of course
I wonder who made it such… Oh right, people who were elected.
What disparity? All these companies generation millions and billions in profits with the boss making hundreds of times what the average employee makes in a year.
It would put the money in the hands of workers instead of in the hands of the elite that already has enough money that the only way it can spend it is by wasting it on millions dollars toys while devs need to camp in their office parking lot.
Your boss must truly love you very much if you believe that they deserve all the profits they generate off your work.