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Surplus Value (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml
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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Because most of them aspire to be one of the folks that collects the green segments from others. Even though they never will.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

all the temporarily inconvenienced billionaires among us

[-] Lodra@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago

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It’s easy to understand how income and taxes affect my life. For many jobs, it’s very difficult to understand the value of my labor in a bigger picture.

I think most people can’t think abstractly and thus struggle to see larger interactions like how money flows through an economy.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Are there any good recent statistics papers looking at the rate-of-exploitation in recent years?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

there's some indirect stats represented by the increasing wealth transfer https://archive.ph/88KG1

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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