Melonius

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

That's what they'll call it as the % of income gets raised in future years

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The example on the Save website shows that if your payment doesn't cover the interest, they'll forgive the rest of the interest while your principal balance goes untouched. It's so gross to see a payment do nothing to your outstanding balance.

They really did miss the indentured servitude days of the colonial era and had to recreate it at home. Go to school and have your wage skimmed for 20-25 years.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

galaxy-brain

Actually going to make a top level response on this

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

So many nasty bits to this story. Even if someone was taking a bunch of extra chips, why should he care? He can have his own private reserve of chips in his office if that's the problem.

The whole story reads fake to me but even in the imagination of this borderline sociopath, he's trying to say that communal goods can't work because of the workers taking too much. All he ends up proving is that communal goods can't be relied on when they're in the hands of the capital owners.

The most telling part of it is how he presents it. He accuses and says someone is lying to him. The real response would be to say something like "Hey maybe someone is taking too many chips, does that bother any of you?" My guess would be no because chips are shit food anyways, but if it did the workers would figure it out amongst themselves.

At my last work we had a Keurig and coffee pods, and people started hoarding pods at their desk because there was never enough. The hoarding was a symptom. Rather than address the underlying issue they stopped providing them all together and sent out a tone deaf email about how it was our fellow workers faults abusing the great company's magnanimous generosity.

The end of that story - that he'd lug in MASSIVE vending machines and go through the pain of stocking them (it takes like a half hour) for pocket change returns squeezed out of the paychecks he gives to his own employees is just 🦹

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The gang gets together while Dennis does fuckin chip math that devolves in to him screaming.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

“We can have those conversations in the future,” Ashooh said. “But we have to start somewhere.”

maybe-later-kiddo

Ashooh looks at the camera. "Oh yeah, I just did that."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

freeze-peach is allowed as long as your petition on change.org has enough signatories. Please abide by the posting rules on change.org

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

I thought dog whistles were supposed to be silent

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The value of the stock isn't really in the cash value, but the company's tech, contracts, distribution network, and workers.

If all the employees quit tomorrow, he'd still be unfathomably wealthy from other sources, but the stock price would be quite a bit lower. I wouldn't call that "arbitrary" regardless of hundreds of acronyms you can slap on a stock chart (P/E is nearly meaningless because of accounting rules)

My thoughts of your point though - whatever the share price is it will always be too far out of reach for the employees to gain ownership of their own place of work. Whether its worth 1.5 trillion or 20 billion is a little silly to think about for any single person.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same, I even told a friend when telling them about Lemmy that "Lemmy has lots of... something called tankies? No clue what it means but I hear they have bad beliefs."

The world didn't make any sense to me. Browsing hexbear for a couple days was like finding the other half of the puzzle pieces inside dead-dove-1

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

He's just a kind old feller who spends time painting nowadays. Wholesome harmless grandpa with a guilt free conscience.

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