Haha, its usually more than that. Especially if you do manual labor and don’t have a union. Friend of mine was receiving 6% of the value of his labor after we calculated it.
You okay babe?
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sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I wish I made 6% of the value of my labor. My power plant has $1M+ days sometimes and there’s only 30 of us running it. I make good money, but not $30k/day good. A couple months ago when we saw sustained deep freeze temperatures for like a week straight, we saw $5M+ days.
We also work crazy hours for those situations. Last week I pulled 72, and the next couple weeks will be 84 hours. But at least they ordered pizza for us.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
When they make that much money, why don’t they hire another 30 or 60 people so everyone can have a normal 32h work week? Are the employee benefits really that good that it’s worth it? I hope they are much more than just pizza. Why would you let yourself be exploited by them, on such an insane level that you are willing to work almost triple work weeks? They are stealing your life while having the financial luxury to just hire more. Have you talked to your union? Work to live, don’t live to work mate.
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
My company had a year where they earned $500M after tax, which was equivalent to an earning of $3.5M per employee, and I got a bonus of $6000 which was the standard bonus for all employees weighted compared to their annual salary.
That summer we had our yearly summer party in a tent on our parking lot…
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sheesh, if that doesn’t radicalize someone idk what does
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Are those figures revenue or profit?
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s exactly it. Sure taxes take 40%, but capitalists take 100-1000% of your salary, and last I checked they don’t build roads and schools.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Okay so I was gonna respond sooner but I was super baked and unable to answer this when I saw it last night.
You should read Wage Labour and Capital by Marx for some added context, it is short.
Basically the value of a commodity is calculate by c + v + s. c being constant capital (the value of the means of production that has been degraded to create the commodity, hard to calculate without good info), v is the amount of paid labor, and s being surplus value is the unpaid labor.
To calculate the value of your labor all you need to know is the constant capital used to produce whatever commodity you produce and the value of said commodity. By including your wage as v you can calculate the surplus value and then compare them to see what share of the value you produce you actually recieve.
Maroon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you calculate the “value” of one’s labour? Like how would you do this for a school teacher?
Different schools have different pay grades, different subjects, etc.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The owner of the construction company is being paid for the work that their employees do. All of that money, after expenses, does not go to the people who did the actual construction.
Proles_Uprising_Now@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If a private school makes 100 million a year in profit and pays you, the only employee 6 million that would be 6 percent of your value. I think.
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Where I live construction is one of the things that’s heavily unionized. Well, local workers are. Foreign workers not so much
jonesey71@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
But they NEED that 40% to buy more bombs to send to Israel or use themselves on the middle east.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Not just bombs. They need to send Israel cash so Israel can fund AIPAC so AIPAC can bribe politicians into sending even more money to Israel so Israel can fund AIPAC even more so AIPAC can bribe politicians into sending even more money to Israel so…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
the bombs are a side benefits, its really to launder the money back into the politicians pockets back in the usa, send AID/MONEY TO israel they fund us gop/dnc through AIPAC to continue thier expansionism, plus added benefited of preventing any actual change in the stage. Hakeem, shcheumer and hordes of other DINOS are fighting tooth and nail to give israel more aid.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
You completely forget the cost of pedo yachts and pedo islands. For shame.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d give 100% of my paycheck to a child that eats pedophiles
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Buddy you have got to rephrase this.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not my phrasing, take it up with the OP.
dan69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😒
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Absolute slander. The pedophiles drink the children. They dont eat them. Apologize to the pedophiles right now!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
“How is this child sized?”
“It’s roughly the equivalent of a small child that’s been liquified.”
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
I neant like blood boys. Not being very hyperbolic.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yea, Im not going to object when the guillotines get rolled out for these Operation “Epstein Fury” masterminds.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait you pay that much in taxes in the US? I thought the silver lining of living in the US means lower taxes compared to countries with social security systems and universal healthcare.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the line they feed us, for sure. But if you ever actually added up federal income tax, state income tax, state and local sales tax, Social Security tax, property tax and assorted taxes for any instance in which you might come into additional money (capital gains, interest, prize winnings, inheritance, etc. etc. etc.) most Americans would probably be shocked to learn what real percentage of our income we actually pay to the government.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a very good reminder to me. The rich pay comparatively little on things like gas taxes, retail tax, etc.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No - they just pretend taxes are lower to justify not using the tax money responsibly to provide social services.
Between federal income tax, social security, and medicaid my taxes come out to about 40% off the top. Then I have to pay state sales tax, local taxes, and in many states people also have to pay state sales tax.
Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What the hell? That is an effective tax that is higher than what I pay in one of the richest countries in Europe. Our highest tax bracket is around 50%, but only on that portion. Our effective tax is probably under 40%.
And we have actual social security and healthcare is covered.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No see when people produce things they need to get taxed a lot so we can pay for the things they need like prisons, cops, anti homeless architecture, and the military.
But when people collect stock dividends or realize gains they only need to get taxed a little to cover the contracts they get to provide squalid food to public schools, fill textbooks with revisionist history, and prevent humanities education.
And of course the true patriots who get loans against the majority stake shares that they manipulate to steal the retirements of prolls and bribe politicians are welcomed to write those incurred debts off.
helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The biggest part of that is social insurance. It’s called a tax (FICA) in America to make people hate it.
And here’s the fun part: there’s an annual cap which is about the same as a construction worker’s salary. Once the cap app is reached they stop deducting it. So high earners only pay it for the first few pay periods of the year.
I remember the first time I earned more than the cap. I thought somebody had made a mistake when my take-home pay went up mysteriously in the middle of the year. So imagine: Bezos and friends are all done paying FICA in the first ten or fifteen minutes of the year.
TheHighRoad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the best part: We don’t know! There are so many taxes and fees and BS spread over so many things that it is very difficult to calculate the total percentage accurately. 40% seems high, but it’s probably not far off when you add everything up.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Multiple layers of tax:
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federal income tax
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FICA
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state income tax
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sales tax
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property tax
According to Tax Foundation, looks like it’s actually about 30%: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. and thank god we don’t get any services or infrastructure repair from that ~30% /s
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dan69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lower taxes (1-5%) is if you make more than 750,000 per hour or daily or weekly.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Ahaha…tempting me to quit, when I need to stay employed the most. I’m this picture, and I don’t like it!
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trump paid for showing me (located with an european IP address and an european account) a facebook video ad boasting about how now overtime is tax exempt. It was awesome: it was an ai-generated pixar style ai slop about some men coming back after some work in oil field or coal mine and hugging their kids, opening the letter with a huge “pussy hair” signature saying that now overtime pay is not taxed.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In 2023-2024 I had a job where I quickly became aware that I was working much harder than they were paying me and I started to track every dollar against my efforts, becaming increasingly aware & bitter that 5 hours a week I was breaking my body as an unpaid volunteer because that’s how much the govt was deducting from my paychecks.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
He needs to be better receptive to capitalist propaganda. /s
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But but Dear Leader needs that money to invade Iran and Just Take The Oil!
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It went from drill baby drill to kill baby kill
RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This looks like slop. Maybe its just the Mexico filter that GPT uses.
mudkip@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
It’s a WikiHow image.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wikihow.com
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Looking closer at the plant and random background object (door? cabinet? bulletin board?) it seems you’re probably right, well spotted :(
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
…and on top of that, you’ve got to pay taxes
jeniferariza@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man just wanted a quiet evening and got hit with a full conspiracy rant 😭
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
But why would you eat them if you want to fu… never mind
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s done afterwards
gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Real praying mantis behavior right here. Do you think… No. No, that’s crazy.
udc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s this about eating what now?
S0UPernova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Try searching for Jerky in the PDF files.
seggturkasz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This looks AI…
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s literally a Wiki how image.
Christ fucking sake. People like you cannot be helped.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the new version of a very old call out - SHOPPED! when something look photo shopped back in the day
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I worked construction for 15 years and 90% of those guys are die hard MAGA
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
most people in trades are conservative, and mostly white people, with a side of hispanic groups. people wonder why more arnt going into the trades, likely they arnt hiring people outside of that political demographic.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’ve been a scientific monitor for construction projects and they will tolerate you, but you will mostly be excluded. I of course as bearded man from the South had an easier time than some of the younger women that were my coworkers.
Honestly the drama on a construction site is peak. These grown men are so petty and cliquey
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I’m a straight married bearded husky white guy who has taken up carpentry as a hobby, and I have no interest in being part of that industry. I have a relative who is a trumper plumber and the culture fits him perfectly, lol.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s because when women and black people meet all the criteria and are begrudgingly allowed in that’s when the haze out circus begins. In my union in a dark blue state Union officers were putting nooses and writing kkk on a group of black men’s thinks to the point they had to file a police report. And the state didn’t do a damn thing. courthousenews.com/mitsubishi-accused-of-ignoring…
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also the crimes they commit to scare away new competitors.