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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 22:56:25 JST nixCraft 🐧

   I shared this one on other social media platforms, and some tech bros are angry 😡 lol. I never understood why some people worship big corporations so much 🤔 It is not just that these companies are also firing people left and right despite making huge fortunes. They only care about meeting shareholders' bottom lines; everyone else is just a casualty. So much for one big happy family 😵

   • Doc Holliday (wmshakesp3are@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:13:43 JST Doc Holliday

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     @nixCraft but if they paid more they wouldn’t have record profits. 🙄

   • Dave Volek (davevolek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:28:45 JST Dave Volek

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     @nixCraft

     We need a new model for commerce.

     Check out the "spolu." When a spolu is profitable, it pays its corporate taxes. Then it pays investors, employees, customers, and suppliers. It also pays the philanthropies that show the spolu's values.

     In other words, the spolu exists to distribute its profits.

     https://davevolekinventions.org/spolu/

   • Parke (parke@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:54:15 JST Parke

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     @nixCraft we desperately need communism.

   • Dibs (dtwx@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 00:31:32 JST Dibs

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     @nixCraft pisses me off when the media support this narrative by reporting that "X is cutting staff to reduce costs". Yes, it IS going to reduce costs, but only to maintain or increase their profits!

   • HighlandLawyer (highlandlawyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 00:46:28 JST HighlandLawyer

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     @nixCraft The purpose of a limited liability corporation is to remove liability from any individual. That has been embraced as meaning moral, not just legal, liability.

   • CrazyDogLadyforHarris (heartofcoyote@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 00:59:47 JST CrazyDogLadyforHarris

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     @nixCraft Shareholders only get leftovers. A lot of the profits are skimmed off before getting to shareholders. Also, there’s different tiers of shares, where regular shares are for suckers. 🙄🤨

   • dhinojosa :mastodon: (dhinojosa@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 01:39:28 JST dhinojosa :mastodon:

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     @nixCraft Tech bros aren't tech they're just ass kissers

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 02:37:27 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     They are probably because they don't want to feel like they are being taken advantage of. They don't like to think they are workers like everyone else.

   • mickymorse (mickymorse@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 02:46:07 JST mickymorse

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     @nixCraft How many times have you heard "our employees are our most valuable asset" bullshit?

   • steve7457537 (steve7457537@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 04:01:41 JST steve7457537

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     @nixCraft I'd like to politely suggest that your brothers in tech do not worship big corporations, but rather they merely disagree and find the overstated claims in the meme annoying.

   • purepresent24 (geekfootball@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 04:04:26 JST purepresent24

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     @nixCraft Profit in its most basic definition means benefiting, having a surplus from a factor that is generating this surplus and not reducing it, otherwise it wouldn't be called profit. You're a great 'asset' to this company. The capitalism system is built this way and that is the expected outcome, making profit at the detriment of the working class. Exploiting the latter either via fake glorified or de-glorified manner. Corporate culture attempts to make us think otherwise. What is one to do?

   • Nahmia (nahmia@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 04:49:08 JST Nahmia

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     @nixCraft This is a great image. past shows higher wages lead to lower prices due to greater spending. The more money available to common people (not uberrich), causes people to afford more trivial items, trips, etc. Uberrich only want more in their overflowing pockets at the expense of everyone else, including the economy and society.

   • Desert Plains (desertplains@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 07:05:01 JST Desert Plains

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     @nixCraft I dunno, either. There's a non-logical worship towards big techs, at a point that colleagues can't understand the practices and how wrong they are, just to satisfy the shareholders happiness...

   • David Ingram 🌻🍍🥝📡⚡ (ingram@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 08:43:50 JST David Ingram 🌻🍍🥝📡⚡

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     @nixCraft The game we play each quarter is "how much money did our division make and how many billion did the others lose". Yes, billions.