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 No.1439695[Reply]

Let's take Apple as an example.

Apple CEO Tim Cook drew a ~$100m salary in 2021. This is approximately .00025% of Apple's annual profit for $400b. Average S&P500 stockholders receive up to 86% of all profits the company makes each year(gotta love Shareholder Profit Maximization). This means realistically that Apple pays out $344b each year to investors and stockholders in some form or another, and functionally operates on $56b each year. But you rarely ever hear about these investment companies, banks, board members, or criticism leveled at this system in of itself. It's always the CEO as a face, as if they own the company and are paying themselves all of the earned money as a grift. The people truly responsible for the grift are behind the scenes and have no names or faces because these are few sole proprietorship companies anymore. Consider the idea that the vast majority of major companies in the US operate under this model of maximizing shareholder profits, and that the US GDP last year was $26.85t. Let's take an estimate that conservatively about half of that went to shareholders instead of 86%, so as to account for small businesses and other ventures. That's $13.4 trillion dollars, or enough to pay every single American adult $53,600 each year without impeding existing margins that companies already run on.

Dig into how much money quietly goes into the financial world and you realize CEO salaries are pennies, or even a distraction from where your surplus value really goes.
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 No.1472997

>>1439705
>I make more than the median CEO.
What the fuck man.

 No.1473035

>>1472997
Are you from burgerstan?

Mean, median and mode are all different way to find "average" value. Mean is when you add everything together and divide by number of items. Median means that 50% of items are bigger than than it and 50% of items are smaller than it, or as close to that as you can. A number in the middle if you will.

They are more or les useful in a different calculations. Arithmetic mean for example is prone to being influenced by big extremities, for example if you have 9 people with the salary of 1000 and one person with the salary of 10000, the mean in this case would be 1900, so the "average" salary would be bigger than that of 90% of the people.

In the essense the guy said that he earns more than half of the CEOs (most of them beign probably small timers), but due to small amount of CEOs that earn an incredible amount of money the arithmetic mean salary is overly inflated and he earns less than that.

 No.1473053

>>1472997
Nope, forgetting those CEO’s shareholdings within their company getting rentier investments through dividends.

 No.1473106

>>1439714
CEO and executives in general are closer to the idea of how PMCs controls the economy than the actual PMCs themselves.

 No.1473156

>>1472997
Lots of CEOs in charge of backwater little companies, I imagine.



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 No.1462596[Reply]

What are your thoughts on the appropriateness of displaying post-Soviet national flags during May 9th commemorations, like they do in Russia and Kazakhstan?

Isn't it disrespectful to the Soviet Union? After all, the Russian tricolour was flown by collaborationist deserters from the Red Army.

It goes to say that a lot of former Warsaw Pact countries abolished or outright banned the holiday.
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 No.1472893

>>1462792
I mean, didn't Nappy III pretend to be the heir of the revolutionary credentials of Napoleon I as well even though he was thoroughly a tool.

 No.1472895

>>1462856
> of which the strategic value is even disputed
Even Prigozhin admits that there isn't much of a strategic value in it.

 No.1472942

>>1472895
Prigozhin's statement was in the context of the regular Russian Army units having been so exhausted by mismanagement that taking it could no longer be exploited.

 No.1472945

>>1472942
So knowing that (because he talked about that for a long time) he still threw people in the mincemeat under Balhmut for…what exactly? Some media clout?

 No.1473140

>>1472945
He was ordered to stay by the Ministry of Defense under threat of being prosecuted for treason if he withdrew early. Now he can say he did his job and if they lose it it was their own fault.



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 No.1436310[Reply]

>Abolished money
>Abolished the value form
>Abolished commodity production
>Fought hecking Soviet Asiatic social imperialism
When did you realise Pol Pot was a Leftcom?
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 No.1439024

>>1439010
>mao was some petty bourgeois Anarcho-trotskyist left-wing communist
That's true after 1966.

 No.1439025

>>1439024
While I think a bit of a over exaggeration (you might think I was joking by putting those words together but pdf related is one of those Soviet publications) even when we peal back Bourgeois propaganda Mao did develop ultra left tendencies later in his rule.

 No.1472994

>>1436310
Dengoids BTFO! We need to replicate this all over the world.

 No.1473002

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>>1439013
Dengist Pol Pot! That guy sure has a lot of friends.

 No.1473051

Saloth Sar was a very holy soul trying to rectify the world by returning it to a state of oneness. He is currently dwelling in Heaven with all the righteous people.



 No.1472883[Reply]

>Create/join revolutionary party
>Make connections with working class
>Become vanguard
>Take over current regime by violent means
>Institute dictatorship of the proletariat
>Execute and/or re-educate all class traitors
>Abolish profit and property
>Gradually wither away the state
>???
<Communism
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 No.1472941

ngl im still suspicous of the vanguard model, why do we need to create a seperate group apart from the workers to lead the workers? also historically speaking alotta vanguardist parties get absoulutley hollowed out by revisionists and lose touch with the people. Not saying I don't fuck wit ML shit cuz I do but I have yet to be sold on the necessity of a vanguard party

 No.1472949

>>1472941
Because the workers are too fucking stupid to do it themselves. Also, the vanguard is from within the working class

 No.1472955

>>1472941
Good that you question.
>why do we need to create a seperate group apart from the workers to lead the workers?
See the limited experience with the council communist, tailist anti-vanguardism of the Dutch-German tendency and later the Situationists for the pros and cons of this. Pros are that you are indeed more embedded within the class, clear cons are that the trajectory towards communism rapidly deteriorates because the organizational model is so ephemeral, especially the lack of leadership, strategy, preparation (the working masses are really not actually all enlightened communist revolutionary sleeper cells capable of transforming production relations at the whiff of an insurrection brewing).
>historically speaking alotta vanguardist parties get absoulutley hollowed out by revisionists and lose touch with the people
The anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist movement (the only ML worthy of the name) developed several practical and theoretical methods to combat this. Some practical ones are the 'mass line', as well as 'criticism, self-criticism'. I think the mass line is an indepsensible tool for any revolutionary communist party and discarding it is a sure way to either lapse into irrelevancy (wannabe commandist old folks' club) or social fascism (bureaucrats and grifters hijacking and steering it rightwards).

 No.1472970

>>1472941
The vanguard is just the part of the working class carrying out revolutionary tasks, don't have to be a conscious thing, be in the form of a party, or even a ML one at that.
For example imagine there is a short of period of massive strikes and riots, eventually some people are beginning to organize which would seem to lead toward a dual power thing right? Well the strikers and rioters are the vanguard of the proletariat, the people who organize are the tip, and chances are they never any word Marx or Lenin ever wrote.

 No.1473999

>>1472883
>just organize a revolutionary vanguard and do revolution lmao
If only we had done this years ago.



 No.1471862[Reply]

Why don’t you advocate for billboardless, dense walkable cities with mixed development infrastructure whose materials consist primarily of wood, clay, concrete and cloths?
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 No.1472956

Once again: We need to embrace mass-living culture, not primitivism.
Things like reusable containment and bulk goods distribution and communal living spaces with domestic division of labor among the entire group is how you cut back on dangerous wastes.

 No.1472959

>>1472861
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49639003

more co2 and more resource usage outside cities

 No.1472962

>>1472959
In the UK specifically. I hardly see that as proof that cities have done less environmental damage than rural settlement. Without cities, no industrialization, which is worse for the environment than all rural communities combined for all history.

 No.1472968

>>1471862
>>1471864
>>1471866
i don't think urbanists are opposed to this but sometimes steel or concrete is needed to engineer tall enough buildings to have high density.

However mass timber technology is coming along and its now possible to build mass timber buildings up to 18 stories tall which is considered a high rise. So with minimal concrete+steel and mainly wood, you can have density now. Due to computer technology allowing the carving of precision parts in advance that fit the design and fit together like legos.

I don't think we can eliminate concrete entirely, especially in the short run, but we can sure reduce the use of it by a TON.

 No.1472969

>>1472962
yes but unless your a primitivist people would like to have sanitary conditions, modern medical care, transportation, entertainment, food options and other amenities. The question is how to achieve that with minimal pollution, not to turn everyone into hunter gatherers again



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 No.1472190[Reply]

The big corporations steal your labor. The governments steal your money and fund porkies and their failing companies. Politicians steal your money and buy BMW's for their family. The banks gamble away your money. Tell me one good reason why you shouldn't steal under capitalism?

You have nothing to lose but your chains. The game is rigged. Steal and pirate away at every possible opportunity comrades ! Let not your lizard brain stand in the way of reason, truth and praxis.
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 No.1472864

>>1472225
14 yo detected. A society where theft is the norm will collapse. Law of unintended consequences. If everybody steals from their local store, it will close. No more store.

 No.1472868

>>1472190
Stealing is elite by nature
Wether its poor people or rich people

 No.1472888

>>1472864
we will get communism when…… everyone steals from stores. amazing idea

>>1472588
just dont get caught

>>1472868
hurr durr

 No.1472894

>>1472888
>we will get communism when…… everyone steals from stores. amazing idea
Oh don't let bong Lelninhat hear this.

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 No.1472823

>>1472501
>Volodin said Poland existed as a state only “thanks to our country”
No lies detected.
t. Spawn of Polish diasporoids

 No.1472829

>Zelenskyy reportedly stated today during a Questionnaire at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan that the City of Bakhmut is no longer under the Control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces further stating that, “At the moment, it (Bakhmut) exists only in our Hearts.”
BAKHMUT HOLDS… in our hearts <3

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 No.1473075

>>1472753
The end of an era



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 No.1472325[Reply]

The G7 Summit is coming to its conclusion for this year today.

Let's post relative articles and discuss the aftermath of and the duration of the event itself.

 No.1472326

Last thing I hear was zelensky meeting leaders a few hours ago.

 No.1472344

Fuck the QUAD
I hope they all contracted radiation sickness.

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 No.1472386

>>1472325
hiroshima, eh?



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 No.1470746[Reply]

Today I was talking to a normie-ish friend about Gladio, about the car bombed journalist in Malta, about the kill lists, the weapon stashes in German forrests, and it dawned on me and we agreed.

Even when normal people are presented by facts, honest to god open confirmations by the very people who perpetrated the acts, people just subconsciously refuse to accept that their own governments would do such things. This is because of the fact that conspiracy theories are made fun in in mainstream media, and the fact that nobody repeats these open confessions even if you can easily find them in official sources.
Even as I was talking to him, and he believes me when I told him these are confirmed facts, some by investigations of government, some open confessions by the people who did it, I pointed this cognitive dissonance out and he even told me he feels it happening. Even when he accepted these things as facts, his subconscious brain was still saying "this could happen in theory".

You can use sourced facts, with documents in hand to prove it, all watertight official statements from CIA and groups like them, people can believe you fully in the moment, the moment they get home you still look like a conspiracy nut in their subconscious memory, and they forget what they have been told. Only hardcore commies and actual conspiracy nuts are the ones who do not hold this subconscious trust in institutions.

You can convince people France literally controls half of Africa, they can agree, it will not impact their lives and they will forget. You can show how western governments killed social liberal presidents and their own citizens to stop "the commies", they can agree, and they will forget.

You literally cannot break the conditioning.
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 No.1472327

>>1472316
Oh good lord, he is one of those fucking morons that deep throats the State Department Propaganda.

>Believes the US gov has never targeted Civilians in Foreign countries.


Oh boy this guy is going to be surprised about the many coups and wars where we targeted civilian populations on purpose.

 No.1472329

>>1472327
>>1472320
>Oh boy this guy is going to be surprised about the many coups and wars where we targeted civilian populations on purpose.

someone pointed this out regarding certain regions and he said it was military connected targets not civilians

 No.1472331

>>1472329
oh yeah and he said that international law and organizations claimed that the us didnt commit crimes. And also that the academic consensus says the us didnt commit crimes. So basiclaly that therefore is enough evidence in his mind that the us didnt commit crimes. Also he supposedly majored or studied international human law

 No.1472335

>>1472329
Haha god damn you have one dense mother fucker for a friend I swear. Just looking at the long list of United States War Crimes says otherwise. But he would say that this is faked and not really what happened.

>>1472331
Looks like you beat me to finishing my post. Where I was just about to go on about how he has come to the conclusion that there is no war crimes because the international law organizations (Which the US is part of) investigated itself and basically said they did no crimes meme.

 No.1472337

>>1472335
>international law organizations (Which the US is part of) investigated itself and basically said they did no crimes meme.

yeah he basically believes this. He also believes that the cia is great and is unfairly demonized.



 No.1451699[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Rap music is possibly the greatest psyops in history. It embodies both a mainstream counter-culture and a form of ultimate consumerism(you can't separate rap without lyrics about money, cars, and objectifying women) perpetuating an image of hyper-masculinity that originated from backup dancers, performers and a ballerina using slang and a fake image to portray themselves as warrior poet thugs. You have to hand it to the porkies, they have created the perfect package that is both captivating and for them a non-threat as well as a market.
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 No.1471933

best hip-hop artists are those that do not conform to those stereotypes tbh

 No.1471939

>>1471933
OP probably still thinks "gangsta rap" is still a thing

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 No.1472251

>>1471901
Downward spiral is peak hip hop

 No.1472272

>>1451699
<It embodies both a mainstream counter-culture and a form of ultimate consumerism(you can't separate rap without lyrics about money, cars, and objectifying women) perpetuating an image of hyper-masculinity that originated from backup dancers, performers and a ballerina using slang and a fake image to portray themselves as warrior poet thugs
Here's one for OP…



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