Quote (Skinned @ Jun 23 2019 05:58pm)
I'm sure there are some bomb ass private hospitals for wealthy people where money isn't a problem. I'm talking about the for-profit hospitals that you would go to and use private insurance at...places without emergency rooms so they aren't subject to EMTALA and therefore not part of the American uninsured but universal healthcare scheme. They will treat you until the insurance company says they can and will discharge you without thought for your condition or what happens to you. They usually discharge, are in the community for less than 24 hours, and end up in an ER with their benefits exhausted. They get treated and end up with huge medical bills with very limited options while inpatient.
Amazon workers pay their own wages with their labor output and their surplus labor value is what becomes the profit. There are dudes that identify what to buy from where and dudes that move stuff from A to B. Those are the guys who make the money at Amazon. They pay their own salaries, their own benefits, the benefits and salaries of their managers including Jeff "Alimony" Bezos, and then create so much more value beyond that which pays for their human resources, gets reinvested into the company, and goes into shareholder pockets.
No matter how you look at it, it is the workers paying all taxes, really three, as they are paying their own taxes in a crude way off paycheck, they are having most of the value they create moved to multiple places where they are taxed again in the form of capital gains for their masters after they pay them to be their masters, and taxation in general on the company, whose model is based upon their actions completely. Not all, but the vast majority of value is based on labor, as best can be guessed.
Ah there we go back to nonsense. Feel free to quit your job and pay yourself with your own labor output. I highly encourage all leftists to try this out and find out how much value they actually have.
No one is paying anything if they get don't get their money from an employer. None of this disproves what I said it's just a silly way of looking at economics. Government would love it though, they would also think there is value in digging a hole so they can fill it back up with the same dirt.
This post was edited by LA-Leviathan on Jun 23 2019 12:37pm