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Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

When I entered the work force in 2005, it was with a company that had never had a layoff in its thirty-year history.

Then, in 2009, they had their first layoff, and I learned later our CEO had taken an 80% pay raise that year.

Taxes aren’t theft. Literally firing people and taking their salaries is theft.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Also that CEO has an eminently punchable face.

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- feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  tautological
  
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Taxes are theft the specific way they are designed in most countries.

Another example of theft is a hired administrator administrating by the criterion of their own pay.

I mean, it is understandable how this works - their pay is a counterweight to the incentive to “mismanage” the company if someone else pays a fitting price. The issue here is that these two incentives do not completely neutralize each other, in some dimension their components add up.

Why I had to say that taxes are still theft - because a CEO is equivalent to a state official in this issue. It’s the same problem.

Political ideologies divide these problems, because political ideologies are like hedge funds, they diversify investments, so that every political ideology could be usable in every landscape for every policy. They are the opposite of consistent, by design.

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- HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Taxes aren’t because they come from societal structure i.e agreement that we’re better off pooling resources
  
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  - rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Is that your reading comprehension or my bad English?
    
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    MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s clearly you
    
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    HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Great reply. I’m not into escalation. Only read the “taxes is theft”
    
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- Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You make zero sense and I feel dumber to have read your comment.
  
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  - rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    and I feel dumber to have read your comment
    
    Then I have improved your self-consciousness. Thank you.
    
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- inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sit down Billy.
  
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