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Are you familiar with "debt bondage"? Technically, the brick kiln workers of India and Pakistan are paid a wage [1]. Closer to home, Amazin warehouse workers probably wouldn't consider themselves as sharing in Amazon's profits. Let me summarize:

1. Debt is built into your existence (student, medical, housing, etc);

2. The system is designed to extract (exploit) value from labor; and

3. There is no value without labor.

[1]: https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-d...




What is your point? OP's comment was about how revenue - (other employees wages) = profit, not the actual details surrounding working for a wage.


And that revenue wouldn’t exist without labor. That’s the point. So offering to “share” that in the form of mostly fixed wages both betrays a presumption of ownership and gives a false appearance of charity or benevolence.




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