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

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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago
  Is that your reading comprehension or my bad English?
  
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  - MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It’s clearly you
    
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    rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OK.
    
    The CEO is supposed to maximize the profits of investors or owners or whatever, not act like in this example.
    
    Just like the government to which you pay taxes is supposed to use it for some public good.
    
    Neither do what they are supposed to do, because that requires some kind of checks by a mechanism above both, and there’s no such.
    
    Is that more clear, or have my bad English and bad explaining skills failed you again?
    
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  - HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Great reply. I’m not into escalation. Only read the “taxes is theft”
    
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    rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OK. I further made equivalence between that CEO and the government which you charge with making use of taxes.
    
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Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You make zero sense and I feel dumber to have read your comment.

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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago
Sit down Billy.

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