Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis

• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?

    I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.

    Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.

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