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  • Communism is when no food

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  • I see that some people try to attribute this to older population and/or Alzheimer, but even by those metrics the countries above are pretty close and wouldn't justify such a big gap:

    As for the reliability of data, it's from a peer reviewed study by an American university. If they had a way to make the China data look worse, I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate.

  • Spain’s ‘greatest matador’ gored by bull in comeback from retirement

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  • I've been giving Spain too much credit lately, but I forgot that this shit is still legal. Barbaric traditions from the past should stay in the past.

  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

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  • "But you see, they told me it's for democracy and freedom!"

  • Deal with it, Libby.

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  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.world
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    Shareholders are the real victims

  • vibe construction

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  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Count Catula

  • You have nothing to lose but your brains

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  • Railways were a thing when communism was developing during Marx's times and Lenin wrote extensively about railways. Their analysis is still very valid, and if anything, planning has become more feasible than 100 years ago thanks to computers. There are some modern proposals, but they are still very much based on socialism, since capitalism can only lead us to ruin.

  • You have nothing to lose but your brains

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  • each employee provides $2.3 million worth of value

    Market cap is just the value at which shares are sold on the market, not necessarily the actual value of the company. It implies a lot speculation for investors on how much they expect to gain from the ownership. The company equity/net worth is a more accurate indicator. What you're calculating is the accumulated value in time, not yearly.

    If you want the ratio of generated value to wages paid, it's hard to accurately calculate with just public data, but you can approximate it so: in a given year, take the operating income and divide it by the number of employees. Operating income accounts for overhead expenses like SG&A (Sales General & Admin), which includes things that you can argue are useless (like wages for execs, middle management, and sales), but they also include admin costs like office rents, etc. Then you also have to find the average/median wage of a worker at the company, so the total is:

    yearly value created by a worker = (operating income / n. of workers) + median wage

    You can also do a quick calculation using this tool: https://yourfairshare.info/

    It's interesting to note how in all of these top companies, for every 1$ paid to workers, another ~1$ is transferred to capitalists through dividends and buybacks.

  • You have nothing to lose but your brains

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  • Here's a site that calculates basically how much you're being exploited in a company. It's mostly for American stock exchanges, but if you can find the financial reports of your company you can apply the same method (it's nicely described).

    https://yourfairshare.info/

    The top comment doesn't really work, because even if workers pooled the money together, shareholders or execs might refuse to sell their shares if they are expecting it to grow and pay them out more in the future. Buying up companies to turn into coops doesn't work (except for failing/bankrupt companies), because it takes capital to do that, which workers don't have by definition.

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    FBI

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Gee, I wonder why?

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Don't tread on me

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    Tree of life

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Evolution of the Microsoft Trash Icon

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    Fart of the deal

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    My favorite Bible verse is about bombing 7 countries in one year

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    Pam █████

  • Wild deer is curious

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  • No treats, just scratches

  • Wild deer is curious

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  • Nope. Completely free in the Irish wilderness.

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Wild deer is curious

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    More dawwgs, less AI slawwp

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    Rising above

  • SlopOS 11

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  • Reminder from the Copilot ToS:

    Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.

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    SlopOS 11

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    White House renovations

  • 'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams

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  • Apparently the creation of the First French Republic, which abolished feudalism and monarchy, created a declaration of human and civil rights that was foundational for a century of liberal democratic revolutions all across Europe and is still celebrated today as a national holiday, wasn't a good ending because the forces of reaction managed to get back in power for a few years. Unbelievable...

    Maybe the first republic would have lasted longer if they dressed up in frog costumes?

  • 'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams

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  • It's kinda funny how you included a 15% margin of error, but then the percentage is off by an order of magnitude

  • Political Cartoons @lemmy.zip
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    I’m not in the meth business. I’m in the empire business.

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    Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse

  • Enemy at the gates

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  • Epstein funded organisations linked to Zionist terrorism, FBI document says

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  • The big ones that European countries participated in were 20 years of invasion in Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya. Some countries, like the UK, participated in the Iraq war(s). You could argue that Yugoslavia bombing was justified, but I'm sure anticommunism played a bigger role than enforcing human rights. We see now how much EU governments care about human rights in Palestine.

    Tibet has been part of China for centuries. First through the Qing, then through the ROC (Taiwan today) and now through the PRC. Just because separatists claim independence does not mean that the PRC invaded it. Do you support European separatist factions, like in Northern Italy, Basque, Scotland, or Donbass? Hong Kong is a Chinese territory that was fucked up by British colonialism (seeing a pattern here) and was handed over peacefully by the British.

    Europe doesn't engage in old colonialism anymore because the world has soured to that approach after centuries of wealth transfer towards Europe. Instead it installs friendly governments through military campaigns and then engages in neocolonialism, which has a similar effect, with a lower cost. What's your definition of standing army? The UK for example, has 70k full time military personnel, which I would count as a standing army. Similar numbers for Germany.

  • Epstein funded organisations linked to Zionist terrorism, FBI document says

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  • This is something no European country does or could do.

    Right, Europe just invades other countries out of pure joy and then installs puppet governments that are loyal to the West. This is just the last 30ish years:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations

    What foreign territories did China invade? Did that parliamentary system you like so much stop the nazis from taking power? Is it stopping armaments to Israel today?

    Again, you are focusing on the wrong threat, because the propaganda told you to. Weed out your own garden first.

  • Epstein funded organisations linked to Zionist terrorism, FBI document says

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  • Western world starts countless wars, a genocide and an alarmingly fascist state followed by its increasingly fascist vassals across the pond.

    Western liberals: I can't wait for China to reveal its true color!

    If you can't see that Western imperialism is the biggest threat to the world, you're lost.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • They have the most generous refund policy of any store and don't force any DRM on published games. The horror!!

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Looking through my favorites list games on Steam, most games have at least one alternative place where they can be bought between GOG, Epic, Itch or the publisher/devs own store. How is that a monopoly? This is without even mentioning other consoles (which you could argue are monopolies on their own).

  • BFFs

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