Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs

• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not If the profits are in the hand of a single owner, who relied on his workers to get to this point of automation and profit

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And rarely peaceful.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As long as they’re generating profits then that wealth will not go to the people who lose their jobs. They’ll just be a surplus population.

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    • Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      *in America

      Americans have to realise there are other ways to run a country. What’s going on there isn’t normal for the rest of the world.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Profits by definition only go to the owners and investors. Once they’re seized by the government they’re no longer profits, they’re company expenses.

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      • sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Most Americans have never owned and will never own a passport, and they dont read much. 60% of them live paycheck to paycheck too. So they dont know and they dont have the time or energy to care.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. Those laid off workers aren’t going to a world where they’re free to engage in their desired pursuits. They’re making hard decisions to keep their family alive. That second part is important.

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  • Maeve@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If everyone has all their needs adequately met and excessive 79 mn annual salaries are non-existent.

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