• @Viking_Hippie
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    310 months ago

    Here’s how it works: people work in exchange for much less than the value they produce.

    That surplus value is turned into profit for the company, exorbitant salaries for executives and stock market value. Those are the sources of income that makes a billionaire.

    No matter how and where a billionaire started, that is how they became a billionaire: value produced by other people becoming wealth for one person. And a shitload of hoarding, of course.

    Statistics document reality, they don’t change how it works.

    • @Cryophilia
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      010 months ago

      Ooof. God I hope you’re not old enough to vote cause you have no idea how anything works. You’re parroting things you’ve read but applying them to a whole different concept, with the fervor of ignorance.

      Did someone quote a few lines about surplus value at you, and now you think you have the whole world figured out?

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        110 months ago

        God I hope you’re not old enough to vote cause you have no idea how anything works

        Says the worst case of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome I’ve come across all month 🙄

        I’m bored of your pompous mouse roars and will let you be a willfully ignorant tool (in both senses of the word) without wasting any more time and energy on you. Have the day you deserve.

        • @Cryophilia
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          010 months ago

          Have the day you deserve.

          Oooh another phrase you just saw and repeated. Have you ever had an original thought?

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            110 months ago

            Plenty. And unlike someone misapplying the infinite monkey theorem to invent selfmade billionaires, I know how to properly apply the thoughts of myself and others in ways that comport with actual reality.

            Now go be an arrogant imbecile at someone else and leave me alone already.

            • @Cryophilia
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              -110 months ago

              Man, what is it with lemmy and teenagers who love dictionary.com

              You just make yourself look dumber by throwing in the occasional fancy word.

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                210 months ago

                Again with the false assumptions. I’m 40 and I choose my words, fancy and not, for accuracy and clarity, not to impress idiots who won’t leave me alone after I’ve specifically told them to.

                Now fuck off like I asked you to.