Yup, I use Lemmy because imho, the whole idea of social reputation feels a bit too like Reddit’s karma thing. But on the other hand, Piefed also has its nice customisation options.
So imho they’re complementary, the most important is that they’re both decentralised.
Yeah, -15 to -5°C is nice. But the range of -5 to +5°C… that isn’t fun…
I just use this site (a bit of a slurry name, but it does its job)
-9.4°C, -15°C, and 1.7°C and 7.2°C, for those not using imperial units. Or rounded to the nearest fifth, -10°C, -15°C, 0°C, 5°C.
Still boggles my mind that literal matter came to be out of literally nothing but radiation and heat.
Florida RINOs*
Why 37%?
Just 37%?
Why not tax wealth+income above $2 million USD with a 99% tax? Someone having 1 billion then still will have 10 million.
And tax the billionnaires properly - and if they don’t want that, make them unable to flee their capital from being taxed.
Unions aren’t even that expensive, here they cost about €4-20 a month, depending on your net disposable income and whether you study or not. At worst, that’s €240 a year.
Take into account that with a union I might get a 5% raise instead of 3% on €30k, and it more than pays for itself (an extra earn of €600, minus union fees that still yields an extra earn of €360).
Sadly not a member of one, though I’m a union member. How is stuff there?
When workers are not exploited, there are fewer in precarious situations. Consider the following scenario.
You have to work 12-hour long shifts, 6 days a week. Travel to and from work takes one hour each way. You need to sleep 8 hours. Eating takes up an hour (let’s say 30 min breakfast&lunch, 30 min dinner).
That leaves you with effectively 2 hours a day that’s for yourself. And that’s excluding meal preparation times, so you’ll likely prefer to microwave. And if you’re a parent, you have even less time. You also don’t have much of a “weekend” to recover. So you cut on sleep and that will directly impact your wellbeing. That won’t help raise children in a safe environment. Nor will other coworkers and people be that thrilled to deal with a constant grumpy person. And nor do you want to be this person!
Now, how much do you then make? Let’s say you make $10 an hour. You’ll thus earn $720 a week, but most of that will go to groceries, travel costs like petrol/electricity, energy and utility, and rent/mortgages. So you’ll en up with barely any reserves to stock up… so if there’s a crisis, you’re fucked, and need to go into debt - and who will profit from that? The banks and CEOs, again.
Let’s say also that there are 1,000 employees, of which 900 workers, 75 mid-range and 25 CEO-board. The workers earn $10, the mid-rangers $15, the CEOs $115 an hour. Together, that all makes $13,000 an hour.
Most of the profit made, goes to the CEOs. When we divide income far more equally and remove those excess bonuses, and enable shorter travel times by good urban planning, we can imagine a scenario like this:
You’ll work 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, 30 min both ways total for travel. Dinner can now be prepared instead of microwaved, and that’s healthier and cheaper, so let’s say food total takes 1.5 hours now. That leaves you with 8 hours for yourself. Much better.
You work 24 hours a week, of which most hours now productively spent at work instead of dozing off and counting the hours. And due to co-ops distributing the income much fairer among all, you might earn $20 an hour.
Let’s now assume there are no CEOs, only workers who all can decide, although some do the day-to-day administration and can be directly recalled.
All earn $13 an hour. The workers significantly benefit, while the mid-rangers also benefit from the much better work-life balance. It’s also conceivable that with this improved live standard, they will be able to produce more, and eventually, go beyond $15 an hour for all… perhaps $20.
Hence, a co-op not only improves wellbeing for all, but also for society. Reduced healthcare costs, reduced travel time costs and waste of fuel, and so on. But in my view, wages are part of the problem; a gift economy with a give-it-forward system would be ideal, with market co-op democratic socialism (with independent trade unions) a close behind.
Only public companies have that ‘duty’.
Co-ops don’t, their duty is to maximise wellbeing for all workers in them and concurrently society.
Meanwhile, the additional costs spared and their consequences for livehood:
If you’re a normal/poor person: scraping by -> can’t even live paycheck to paycheck anymore
If you’re somewhat affluent: okay -> scraping by
If you’re a billionnaire: excellent -> excellent (nothing changes)
To be part of the 1%, in the United States you’ll need about $USD 6 million. Though living off from money only (i.e. without wage labour) is already “achievable” by $2 million, you then make about $100k a year with a 5% interest if in stocks.
All ye who are not part of the 1%, are the proletariat. Ye who depend on the oligarch have nothing to lose, but a world to gain.
This is right-wing bullshit to excuse billionnaires getting richer and richer. Proper income tax is progressive and spares the proletariat.
What you want is to maximalise the net disposable income, with universal, accessible, excellent, and free: education, health- and childcare for all throughout life, a rehabilitative judicial system, decent and affordable housing, and excellent public transit with preservation of nature.
For that, we must remove all billionnaires. Trade unions must cooperate with the armed labourers and disarm the elite.
Voodoo economics has never worked. So then we must tax land, inheritance, wealth, income, and dividend. And for all these, we must make it equal for all (in that there’s one comprehensive system for this);
• exemption for the most impoverished and marginalised
• a small contribution by the more prosperous
• multimillionnaires and billionnaires pay it all.
and additionally, tax haven & capital flight must be punished and combatted. We must also combat the toxic idea of one’s worth being dependent on money: it must be on how much one helps society. we must control the narrative, and that must be positive for the liberation of all workers.
edit: oh, and it’s a minor thing, but you could also make the tax be one that’s pre-deducted, rather than that you have to pay. It’s a psychological thing where people rather fear losing what they have, than perceive the benefits gained by their contributions.
Debt is caused by the rich refusing to contribute. Everyone needs adequate healthcare, housing, clean food and water, transport, and a pristine environment.
Maybe the graph should be corrected and fascists’ views disregarded.
Fascists should not and cannot be included in any reasonable political system.
And? I’m talking about it as if when I were called that. RINOs like the Trumpists are so far gone that to them anyone who disagrees with their Trumpist narrow mindset, is a traitor (hey, one of the characteristics of fascism according to Eco!).
Oh, and to ask (putting it as a new comment so you get pung), I’ve been looking at the Piefed page out of curiosity, and it’s very clear and insightful - but I see Ngrok being mentioned as a funder, and I’m a bit worried. How can you be sure that they are not affilated with Musk’s Grok to any extent?