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Poignant post on the state of things (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh but they actively took our paychecks too. This wasn't just government welfare for the wealthy and the stock market. When they fired Janet because they only needed one worker instead of two thanks to new software? They didn't pay Bob extra. That's wealth just sucked up into the Executive and Shareholder realm. Then to add salt to the wound of doing two jobs they give Bob a December raise below inflation. (because of course there is still actually more that Bob has to do, the software didn't fix everything.) So now they get Janet's pay and the extra revenue they denied Bob, because of course their prices damn sure went up in step with inflation.

This kind of fuckery has resulted in an estimated upwards transfer of around 47 Trillion dollars.