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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s not that they deserve the money, it’s that most others are being hugely ineffective, which creates this disparity.

    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’s funny how you suggest that adding any part of those 30% to the pocket of actual devs would solve any problems.

    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.



  • 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.