Comment on Company makes a dollar I get a dime, that's why I shit on company time.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoI’m listening
Comment on Company makes a dollar I get a dime, that's why I shit on company time.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoI’m listening
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s known as surplus value. The amount of value created by a worker beyond what they’ve been paid to create it.
If a worker is paid $10 an hour and produces $100 of value in that hour then they have created surplus value of $90. Surplus value is kept by the company as profit. Socialists argue the amount of surplus value taken by companies has grown exponentially since the industrial revolution where a single worker could produce massive amounts of value in a small amount of time. Wages have not increased to compensate for the massive increase in surplus value.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh yeah the gap in surplus value is ridiculous, and continues to get worse. Sorry my comment was meant as a lazy “and you too can have $28B” joke 🤣