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prolifeproliberty · 6 hours
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Bring Me The Boss Hog
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prolifeproliberty · 2 days
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And so you are welcome to quit your job and start your own restaurant.
Except that requires up front money to buy/rent a building and equipment. A lot of up front money. Not to mention all the supplies and payroll to get started before any revenue starts coming in.
Why would someone be willing to risk that money on a business venture that might fail? Because of the possibility of making a lot of money if it succeeds.
Businesses like the restaurant you work at exist because someone with a lot of money was willing to risk their money to start that business.
If the profit motive disappears, there will be very few new businesses. People might start small businesses out of their own homes, but those that require a building and significant equipment will be few and far between.
And those businesses allow people to work for a fairly consistent, predictable wage. When you own a business, you may make much much more than if you work at a restaurant, but you could also lose everything. Let’s say the restaurant floods, or catches fire, or gets hit by a tornado. The owner is responsible for repairing or rebuilding the restaurant. The employees aren’t.
You can clock in and clock out and know how much you will make from week to week. You’re not responsible for what happens when you aren’t at work. The owner, whether he is physically present or not, is responsible for the restaurant 24/7.
You mentioned the owner having a net worth in the tens of millions. That is not cash to spend. That is a calculation based on the value of all of his assets, including the value of the restaurant you work at. The income he receives allows him to invest in other businesses, which employ more people and provide goods and services to more customers. This one guy, with his capital, is able to regularly expand the number of jobs available by risking his accumulated capital on these business ventures.
As far as your pay, yes, he’s going to pay the minimum he can. Not just based on minimum wage - but based on what he needs to pay in order for competent people to be willing to work there. You are willing to work for the wage he is offering. If you want more money, look for a job that pays more. If he can’t hire competent people at $12 an hour, he will raise the wages.
people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.
i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)
at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)
i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.
this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.
to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.
now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?
the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?
the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.
the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.
what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.
what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.
that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.
the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.
the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money. 
when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”
every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.
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prolifeproliberty · 3 days
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“Port o’ Rico” kills me every time
What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?
.. i’m palestinian
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) dir. Mel Brooks
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prolifeproliberty · 4 days
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Quick reminder to pregnant moms out there that you do NOT have to labor in a hospital gown!
Hospital gowns are designed to give access for things like monitors, IVs, epidurals, and so on. But any garment that allows that access is fine for labor in a hospital!
There are quite a few brands of labor gown out there now, here’s just one example of a company that has some great options, including more modest gowns (which are great if you are walking around during early active labor and want to walk up and down the hospital hallways)
These gowns have various slits, zippers, and snaps that allow access for IVs, epidurals, monitors, and breastfeeding/skin-to-skin.
You can wear a gown that is more comfortable in material, fit, and coverage than a standard hospital gown!
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prolifeproliberty · 5 days
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Boeing Killed A Guy!
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prolifeproliberty · 5 days
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Apparently you can, though your only real other option is Airbus. Not sure if they’re actually any better just because they haven’t been in the news.
Boeing Killed A Guy!
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prolifeproliberty · 6 days
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help they’re cancelling jesus for being toxic
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prolifeproliberty · 7 days
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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
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Then [Jesus] began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and "Bro, you just posted cringe. You are going to loose subscriber."
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prolifeproliberty · 7 days
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Wait
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prolifeproliberty · 8 days
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finally an article from a gaming establishment that understands how to play this game
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prolifeproliberty · 8 days
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Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block
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prolifeproliberty · 9 days
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