More than that it's about forcing every trans person to be outed every time they show their id. If you're a trans person with passing privilege congrats now you have to think 'do I feel safe being openly trans here' every time you buy alcohol or nicotine.
The only reason this idea was ever advanced was wishful thinking by people who wanted to have their cake and eat it too. People who wanted to be glad Kirk is gone without the 'guilt' of acknowledging that political violence can be a force for good or that 'their side' is capable of it.
This was immediately obvious to anybody who wasn't actively wishing they could wash their hands of it politically. 'Oh he dressed up as a gopnik for halloween once, and I found this pepe version of a gopnik, pepe is a groyper meme therefore he must be a groyper'
Yeah from a macro perspective the snowball effect of capital leads to extremely unfair wealth distribution. But the image is from a micro perspective. Wages are closer to 60%-80% of profit produced and the image is claiming it's like 20%.
The image is kind of a bad way to portray the underlying problem. The skimming of wealth from the working class is real but the rate isn't as dramatic as the image claims.
I would much rather do direct support. Conveniently, I also lose so much respect for people that run ads that I don't want to support them. OTOH, I spend way more on patreon and bandcamp than I would on subscription services.
Well it was net operating income, so before reinvestment expenses. But are you trying to count all future profits from reinvested wealth? Why not just say they extract infinite value then.
Sure fine. Lets look at the fortune 50 that I work for.
2024, $5.5 billion in profit. 415,000 employees (probably mostly part time). About 13,000 per employee.
Yeah sure that's life changing but that isn't 4 times more than what people are getting paid like the image claims.
A majority of people are probably paying more in taxes than their amount of surplus value extracted by the capitalists. But one of these things is at least partially for the common good while the other is pure parasitism.
More than that it's about forcing every trans person to be outed every time they show their id. If you're a trans person with passing privilege congrats now you have to think 'do I feel safe being openly trans here' every time you buy alcohol or nicotine.