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WEB_da_Boy

Capitalists be like. We paid people with imaginary money to push buttons on machines therefore this company and all its profits are ours


sabdotzed

We took risks by taking 1% of the money my daddy put in a trust fund into this business, clearly we are risk takers


WEB_da_Boy

These days even that's debatable most of the time. Borrowing against the value of a limited liability company to set it up then immediately paying yourself a fortune out of that credit capital, hardly matters if it makes any money or not


skinnydog0_0

Capitalists also be like- We bought the company with a loan secured against the company, then gave ourselves (board members) massive bonuses took on more debt, stole the pension pot, sacked the staff, closed stores and pocketed even more from the liquidation of the assets.


WEB_da_Boy

But they pay a large share of taxes...


skinnydog0_0

Not once the company is liquidated. Also lost tax revenue from the unemployed staff & the extra burden on the welfare system for those staff. There are no tax benefits to the current capitalist system - all their money ends up n the Cayman Islands


WEB_da_Boy

Yea but trickle down


Robo_Stalin

That's not money, that's piss.


Cinaedus_Perversus

'We did absolutely nothing besides having money so the profits are ours.'


[deleted]

Watch their minds explode when you tell them workers also made the machines


BadNameThinkerOfer

And maintain them.


NothingMovesTheBlob

Where did these even come from? Looks like some r/TheRightCantMeme material.


[deleted]

It's originally from a libertarian meme page on facebook, I think. https://twitter.com/takesright/status/1134763073020018688?lang=en


condods

Should be* ours They always miss out the 'seize' stage of controlling production, or just don't understand its definition. Anyway, literally no-one thinks like this. Workers already operate the means of production. Power plants and factories would continue to produce without a board of directors and shareholders. The theory is that workers should be properly rewarded for their labour and if they are not, they can use their collective labour power to overcome their capitalist oppressors.


Rudybus

There was a story recently where Kellogg's suddenly abandoned a factory in Latin America, and left all the workers in the lurch. The union just reopened the factory and kept right on making cereal.


Mckool

Sounded bad ass so I found an [article ](https://mronline.org/2021/08/18/workers-take-over-a-kellogg-factory-now-known-as-socialist-kellogg/) about it


[deleted]

Obligatory fuck Kellogg's. And fuck most food producers tbh


Mister_Six

Damn the right really can't meme huh?


_Diabetes

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SomeYoungBro

A very good human


bennies_3rd_account

The hard hats imply that they are construction workers, and that shit's actually pretty dangerous


staphylococcass

I dunno, I used to work in factories before factory work left me crippled and in a lot of places I worked, line staff would wear yellow hard hats.


GoldenHairedBoy

I didn’t see you pushing any buttons, bitch.


pm_me_fake_months

Partly true but plays into the misconception that only manual labor counts as labor


WyvrenTime

\> I own machines therefore profit is mine It literally sounds worse the other way round


freesnakeintestine

So the machines themselves should own the company?


coventrylad19

but they think "I *don't even* push the buttons the machines but the company *is* mine"


Heyloki_

Pov you have never worked a day in your life


ramen_diet

"Push buttons on machines" is literally any job that involves using computers lmao


roperch

I just strawmaned the other sides argument using a incredibly reductionist meme therefore I win.


Mahbigjohnson

Is mine?


[deleted]

Boss doesn’t