• Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    6 hours ago

    You make the boss $100, you wage is $7.25, your boss is earning $92.75 that he uses to recoup the costs of production then can pocket the rest.

    Your boss then takes that money and pays off the capitalist state to make laws to take more of your money to further subsidize his cost of business while rigging the laws in his favor to make sure competition doesn’t spring up to threaten his bottom line. Your taxes, which should be used for the common welfare of all, is being laundered and sent to further enrich the capitalist class.

    If you think taxes are theft, then working for a wage is slavery

    • Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      5 hours ago

      I’m talking about communism, not mere taxes…

      Communism makes it so the guy who is capable of working but sits on his couch all day has the same money as the guy working his butt off…

      I have no problem with when people who can’t work are helped, the problem is when people who aren’t trying to work get to mooch off of the workers…

      Also, most people aren’t working for $7.25… they go where the money is better… unfortunately big corporations have their fingers in the government (on both sides)

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        4 hours ago

        I’m sorry, are you a boomer? Did you learn what communism is on fox news? Do you honestly to God think the Soviet Union went from a backwater semi-feudal empire that was suffering from famines every 10 or so years to a nation that beat America in the space race several times over within a generation by only having one guy do all the work while everyone else laid around?

        Honest to God, do yourself a favor and at least read Chapter 1 of Lenin’s State and Revolution. If you do that you’ll at least be more learned on some of the 101 level stuff of what communists believe than a lot of the left-liberals that larp as socialists.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        Genuinely, how did you come to be so confident talking about a subject you clearly don’t know the first thing about? Like, where did you get these ideas from?

        • Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          2 hours ago

          Because of how Communism and Socialism has only worked out for the party elite, and has been horrible for the people…

          Look at East Berlin and how desperate people were to escape to the west side of the wall.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        4 hours ago

        We are talking about communism, it sounds like you’re talking about welfare and getting upset at those on welfare and not the capitalists that plunder all of the social surplus. Of course capitalists control the state, the state serves the ruling class.

        • Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          3 hours ago

          I don’t get where you got that from…

          I said that the problem is when people who are able to work simply choose not to, and feed off of those who do work.

          Wellfare is supposed to be for disabled people, injured people, and people who are stuck between jobs…

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            3 hours ago

            Do you think that people don’t work in China? Cuba, Korea, Vietnam? Laos? Do you think they didn’t work in the USSR, when they went from feudalism to space in half a century? I really don’t think you understand how socialism works in real life, or how production in the future will be run.