• Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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    362 years ago

    $250,000 isn’t a lot of money to the average person

    Thats literally 5-6x the median annual income what the hell are you smoking. That is a life changing amount of money to most of the country.

    they didn’t take the profit from anyone

    They took that profit from the people working there. Profit is the difference between expenses and income. In order to turn a profit companies cannot pay workers what their work earns the company, there has to be a difference. In economic parlance this difference is referred to as surplus value being generated by the workers for the company. If workers were paid what they were worth then the profit margin of that company would be 0% but those people would all be paid more than they are now. Whether you think the workers are entitled to the full value of what they create is an ideological determination that I will judge you for.

      • Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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        202 years ago

        1: didn’t touch that for some reason

        2: I am aware they ran on venture capital. You didn’t address where they take their profit from now that they’ve achieved their dream near-monopoly status. That status that would have been impossible without their thousands of employees to begin with.

        • Neuromancer
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          12 years ago

          Take their profit? It’s paying the billions in debt they owe Amazon has never declared a dividend.

          • pjhenry1216
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            12 years ago

            s coffee. It just needs to be coffee

            No. This is absolutely wrong. There’s an entire grading system involved.