The Trojan horse wasn't made of Trojans, like the Spruce Goose wasn't made of Spruce. Nor was it made by Trojans nor filled with Trojans.
The name is misleading.
Would need to make sure to exclude costs like executive "compensation", stock buy backs, or any other methods used to artificially decrease profits to avoid taxes.
If you only spent 36,500 a day, you'd probably die far far richer (like, 10s of billions) than you were born assuming you have it invested. You could spend more like 100k a day (adjusting up for inflation) and you'd probably almost certainly die a billionaire.
How many 20-year-olds could afford to invest $300 a month even if they’re being paid a middle class wage?
If you're making median income outside places like LA/NYC/SF and don't have children, it should be pretty affordable.
The place I work at doesn't offer a 401k either (technically I'm self-employed/contract worker, so I do offer myself a 401k), but even if it doesn't and you're not self-employed, IRAs have a $6500/year limit and that's something you just open yourself. And you can just open a brokerage account if you want more. Unfortunately, most people don't know these kinds of things, especially not at 20yo. There's definitely a education gap, which is a serious problem. And few people in their early 20s make the median wage and even if they are making that much, many are still buying lots of basic durable goods like furniture and kitchenware. So using 20 as a starting point is probably a little too optimistic...
It’s gotten rather absurd. If my interaction is with a kiosk short of being handed something, it’s an insulting extra step. I’m already paying the price for my employer’s pay scale … I can’t take on someone else’s stinginess....
If the person is walking or biking, sure. If they're driving, then whether they get lucky with the lights should matter more for the tip cost than whether it was 1 small bag or 2 medium ones.
All you need is a series of rackets, balls, nets, tables of various sizes, and a giant court that you can paint onto and you can do it was any rng generator.
What if it goes through a series of splits into equal sized spheres as it is going through the atmosphere to minimize the SA:V ratio to what is necesary?
I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book about the iPhone....
This whole discussion seems to not be about any underlying disagreement about tech and how it can have negative impacts on society (while giving the impression that it is about that), but rather the tone of the words used to expressed the idea. You keep having to respond to people who misunderstood your intentions because you did a pretty poor job of making it clear what your disagreements with Zeth0s were, so people assumed it was disagreeing with what he said (for good reason given how you start your comment).
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If you are earning just under ~$19/hr, then the employer is paying about ~$1.5/hr in taxes on that income, so not exactly a large chunk. The $19/hr is before the employee pays taxes. If you remove that, $19/hr is really more like $16/hr. 16/20.5 = ~80%, so the vast majority is going to the employee still.
This is only using federal taxes since state/local taxes vary, so that's an important limitation, but the sum of all state's taxes is about half of federal tax revenue and most likely comes primarily out of the employee's $19/hr rather than from the employer. Also non-monetary benefits are a thing, so if they, for example, cover health insurance cost or employer 401k matches, then the total compensation may be $1-3/hr more than the monetary pay. In total, that's a max of about $6/hour difference (more likely, about $2/hr-$4/hr) from the stated pay. Still short significantly short of just COLA adjustment from just 2008 being demanded even if you assumed payroll taxes didn't exist in 2008 and employees had no benefits then and high-end benefits now (not that you were arguing anything about that number; just wanted to give some context to the numbers and the demands).
Ultimately, I agree that its an unhelpful metric. The productivity of workers as a whole doesn't determine the value of specific workers and GDP can often count negative costs as a plus. Personally, I think the over-abundance of cars is a huge problem in our society, so if we based compensation on how much value is produced for society, most autoworkers might come out in the red. But if we wanted to use traditional economic measures of "value", then looking at the costs (excluding executive compensation) and revenue from car sales would be a more direct way to accomplish what they're trying to with that metric.
On the other hand, it provides some rough idea of how much we can afford. Only about half of the country is considered part of the workforce. Some of that is children who are being supported by that $19/hr the employee earns. But some are retired people who put in money over the prior 3 decades. Some goes to feeding children in poverty. Some are people with disabilities who need support. Some are people between jobs, but receiving unemployment insurance benefits (that they previously paid into). All of that has to come from the $73/hr. Some of that $73/hr goes to public programs that said workers can directly benefit from (things like roads, trails, parks, libraries, fire departments, medical research, funding the NLRB, etc). Without first subtracting all of those kinds of things from the $73/hr, you can't really use it to estimate what the average worker compensation should be.
So, about 30% as you said. If you assume that the taxes need to be paid regardless and the the revenue made from those with much higher compensation is mostly just stolen wages, then its fair to say that the burden of those taxes would also need to be shifted to those workers if they take back all of those stolen wages. I don't think the assumption those taxes all need to be paid is necessarily true and most of it would naturally happen as workers rise into higher tax brackets and the SD becomes smaller compared to total compensation. This also still has the problem of assuming GDP is a fixed value.
US debt clock does include total worker compensation at 14.5 trillion, out of the total US GDP of 27 trillion. Not sure exactly what they are including in that. Not do they seem to have the number for previous years.
As part of his Labor Day message to workers in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday re-upped his call for the establishment of a 20% cut to the workweek with no loss in pay—an idea he said is “not radical” given the enormous productivity gains over recent decades that have resulted in massive profits for...
Someone has to be an early proponent of it. Its not we could go from no congresspersons says such to suddenly one minute all of them decide to announce they support it simultaneously.
What's he supposed to do? Blackmail, threaten, or kill most of congress? Until he has plans for those, having bills written won't do much but waste time that he could be better using talking about the ideas.
Its up 8% from last year and the number who viewed him favorable went down from 75% to 66%.
Overall, trump is at 63% unfavorable and 35% favorable. Biden is at 60% unfavorable and 39% favorable. Unfavorable has been growing for Biden, Harris, McCarthy, and Schumer, so the change might just reflect a general shift towards distrust of mainstream politicians.
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
If your goal is to have a safe space for an oppressed minority group to express themselves, allowing transphobes to go about "just asking questions" and harassing people shuts down conversation of a group that actually has their freedom of expression threatened. Allowing harassment is more censorship than banning it. And no one should have the expectation of being able to just go into anyone's house and shit on their floor without consequence. And that might mean being banned from going to all of their friend's houses as well.
They repeated what they said, which is good enough reason to ban them from dozens of communities. People generally portray themselves in the least controversial light possible in these circumstances, so that's the best case scenario.
Many subreddits are the personal spaces of groups of people. Doesn't matter whether it's literally a physical house someone lives in or a metaphorical home for marginalized people. It's still their personal space. They're justified in excluding people even for trivial reasons such as liking the number 7. Blatant transphobia is an obvious reason to ban people from such spaces.
Blocking people from harassing marginalized people is not fascism. Excusing the persecution of marginalized people otoh...
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xkcd #2865: The Wrong Stuff ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary ( lemmy.world )
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Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )
It’s gotten rather absurd. If my interaction is with a kiosk short of being handed something, it’s an insulting extra step. I’m already paying the price for my employer’s pay scale … I can’t take on someone else’s stinginess....
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5,000 autoworkers walk out at Texas GM's largest plant, as UAW expands strike for second day in a row ( thehill.com )
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Study suggest men refuse to ditch meat because it threatens their masculinity ( vegconomist.com )
How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too. ( www.stltoday.com )
I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book about the iPhone....
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Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay ( www.commondreams.org )
As part of his Labor Day message to workers in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday re-upped his call for the establishment of a 20% cut to the workweek with no loss in pay—an idea he said is “not radical” given the enormous productivity gains over recent decades that have resulted in massive profits for...
Zoom orders workers back to the office ( www.bbc.co.uk )
A company that achieved success due to people having to WFH are now forcing staff back in to the office
Analysis: Nearly a third of Republicans now view Trump as 'unfavorable': Pew ( www.businessinsider.com )
The rise in unfavorability amongst the GOP comes after the 45th president was indicted twice and currently faces a potential third indictment.
Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery. ( kbin.social )
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....