• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      The only way to extract profit is to produce degrees of separation from the workers and the products of their labor. They receive the full value of your labor and then act like it’s a generous gift to get paid a small fraction.

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            12 days ago

            By your logic, if you gave me four quarters for my dollar bill, you’d then complain that I made out with the “full value” of your quarters, and treat it like I stole your coins, instead of the mutually-agreed-upon trade that actually occurred.

            Even if you gave me five quarters and I gave you one dollar bill, an uneven trade in my favor, I didn’t end up with the “full value” ($1.25) of your money. I ended up plus only 25 cents.

            Learn what “full” means.

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      13 days ago

      Who has access to the sum of a payout before choosing the scraps to divvy out? About as much logic as I’d expect from a degenerate whose online fetishisms are perpetuated by capitalistic commerce.

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        13 days ago

        There is no “payout”. It’s a trade. You’re receiving a wage at the same time that they are receiving your labor. That’s how it works.

        Also, you’ve chosen what to accept as payment beforehand, you’re treating it like you have to accept just beginning to work and hope that you are paid what you believe your labor is worth after.

        No one is stopping you from creating a co-op if you don’t like any of the offers presented to you, either, by the way.