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- Comment on highest grade 3 days ago:
Anything’s possible when you make stuff up!
- Comment on Deal with it, Libby. 2 weeks ago:
Stock markets go up, but most of that wealth is transferred to capitalists:
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
each employee provides $2.3 million worth of value
Market cap is just the value at which shares are sold on the market, not necessarily the actual value of the company. They imply a lot speculation for investors on how much they expect to gain from the ownership. The company equity/net worth is a more accurate indicator. What you’re calculating is the accumulated value in time, not yearly.
If you want the ratio of generated value to wages paid, it’s hard to accurately calculate with just public data, but you can approximate it so: in a given year, take the operating income and divide it by the number of employees. Operating income accounts for overhead expenses like SG&A (Sales General & Admin), which includes things which you can argue are useless (like wages for execs, middle management, and sales), but they also include admin costs like office rents, etc. Then you also have to find the average/median wage of a worker at the company, so the total is:
yearly value created by a worker = (operating income / n. of workers) + median wage
You can also do a quick calculation using this tool: yourfairshare.info
It’s interesting to note how in all of these top companies, for every 1$ paid to workers, another ~1$ is transferred to capitalists.
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- Comment on SlopOS 11 5 weeks ago:
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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- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 9 months ago:
“Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so,” Valve’s statement sent over email to Kotaku reads. “Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve
This whole thing reads like a telephone game where nobody wants to take any responsibility.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Very common to hear this. I’ve heard family that were complaining that male only, illegal immigrants are moving in to steal jobs, when they were exactly in the same situation, just on the other side, some 20 years ago. It honestly shakes my hope in humanity.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 year ago:
Of course it’s made in Rust! (the backend)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 1 year ago:
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 1 year ago:
The rock was clearly designed by an omnipotent God, and can’t be the product of chance
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 1 year ago:
I already have dirty toilet water at home, I don’t see why I would pay Starbucks for it.
- Comment on Bluesky 1 year ago:
Nope, never
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 year ago:
Bro, put those man tits under a Tshirt cause that looks like a serious burn
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 2 years ago:
While gendered nouns are stupid, I at least appreciate Italian because you can just learn the word and get its gender from the end part of the word. In German, however, it’s completely random and you have to learn the gender with the word.
