WalrusDragonOnABike

@WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NBies too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear panties instead of men's underwear and have a dick and balls. Not uncomfortable at all. Just gotta find ones that fit right (I do have some that do cause such issues on occasion)). Wouldn't consider myself a man tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Positive review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No spoiler tags?
  /j

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about abcdefg hijklmnop qrs tuv wx yz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Would need to make sure to exclude costs like executive "compensation", stock buy backs, or any other methods used to artificially decrease profits to avoid taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat garbage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I can help with that question. I just know the answer isn't disingenuously adapting the language of equality to attack those oppressed by the system of race by acting like "black lives matters" is bad. Likewise, using "gender abolition" as an excuse to be a TERF by getting mad at trans people for fitting any stereotypes of their gender (while ignoring cis people doing the same thing) or telling trans people they're delusional. Even if long-term we want to eliminate race and gender, it doesn't mean we can ignore the relatively short-term impacts they've had historically and continue to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat garbage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Both. Just like race. Its subject to change based on changing concepts, but are regardless of which version of the social construct is used, race and gender are generally based vaguely on immutable things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat garbage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sex is also a social construct. Its separate from gender though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good ol' Banana Peel skill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The old school one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5,000 autoworkers walk out at Texas GM's largest plant, as UAW expands strike for second day in a row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  3rd day would mean demands weren't met :o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5,000 autoworkers walk out at Texas GM's largest plant, as UAW expands strike for second day in a row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be a shame if it happened 3 days in a row.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new adaptor just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 13,00 €!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So oat milk doesn't have the same mouthfeel as...

  Disappoint :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point.

  Total GDP: ~27tril
  Total US Tax review: ~7.8tril

  So, about 30% as you said. If you assume that the taxes need to be paid regardless and the the revenue made from those with much higher compensation is mostly just stolen wages, then its fair to say that the burden of those taxes would also need to be shifted to those workers if they take back all of those stolen wages. I don't think the assumption those taxes all need to be paid is necessarily true and most of it would naturally happen as workers rise into higher tax brackets and the SD becomes smaller compared to total compensation. This also still has the problem of assuming GDP is a fixed value.

  US debt clock does include total worker compensation at 14.5 trillion, out of the total US GDP of 27 trillion. Not sure exactly what they are including in that. Not do they seem to have the number for previous years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are earning just under ~$19/hr, then the employer is paying about ~$1.5/hr in taxes on that income, so not exactly a large chunk. The $19/hr is before the employee pays taxes. If you remove that, $19/hr is really more like $16/hr. 16/20.5 = ~80%, so the vast majority is going to the employee still.

  This is only using federal taxes since state/local taxes vary, so that's an important limitation, but the sum of all state's taxes is about half of federal tax revenue and most likely comes primarily out of the employee's $19/hr rather than from the employer. Also non-monetary benefits are a thing, so if they, for example, cover health insurance cost or employer 401k matches, then the total compensation may be $1-3/hr more than the monetary pay. In total, that's a max of about $6/hour difference (more likely, about $2/hr-$4/hr) from the stated pay. Still short significantly short of just COLA adjustment from just 2008 being demanded even if you assumed payroll taxes didn't exist in 2008 and employees had no benefits then and high-end benefits now (not that you were arguing anything about that number; just wanted to give some context to the numbers and the demands).

  Ultimately, I agree that its an unhelpful metric. The productivity of workers as a whole doesn't determine the value of specific workers and GDP can often count negative costs as a plus. Personally, I think the over-abundance of cars is a huge problem in our society, so if we based compensation on how much value is produced for society, most autoworkers might come out in the red. But if we wanted to use traditional economic measures of "value", then looking at the costs (excluding executive compensation) and revenue from car sales would be a more direct way to accomplish what they're trying to with that metric.

  On the other hand, it provides some rough idea of how much we can afford. Only about half of the country is considered part of the workforce. Some of that is children who are being supported by that $19/hr the employee earns. But some are retired people who put in money over the prior 3 decades. Some goes to feeding children in poverty. Some are people with disabilities who need support. Some are people between jobs, but receiving unemployment insurance benefits (that they previously paid into). All of that has to come from the $73/hr. Some of that $73/hr goes to public programs that said workers can directly benefit from (things like roads, trails, parks, libraries, fire departments, medical research, funding the NLRB, etc). Without first subtracting all of those kinds of things from the $73/hr, you can't really use it to estimate what the average worker compensation should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm try to figure out what you want from him. The topic is how one person can't do anything and you're saying he's not doing enough by trying to spread the ideas, so I'm trying to figure out what you want him to do as one person if its not promoting the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What's he supposed to do? Blackmail, threaten, or kill most of congress? Until he has plans for those, having bills written won't do much but waste time that he could be better using talking about the ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone has to be an early proponent of it. Its not we could go from no congresspersons says such to suddenly one minute all of them decide to announce they support it simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom orders workers back to the office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you had kids, pets, etc, you might find yourself taking more breaks. But breaks are probably good for productivity too...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then why does it matter that your an admin if the drive should have no say?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How is Windows in the 2nd drive supposed to know that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100, here I cum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

  And interestingly 38-39 is when your expected remaining is your age.