plinky [he/him]

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Cake day: October 8th, 2022

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  • Make 50 million t-shirts for 5 bucks, pay container ship workers round 10 million to transport them, pay port workers 20 million to unload them, another 30 million to local delivery system, 100 million to local advertising, which subsidizes internet infrastructure and dozens of influencers, another 100 million to shop workers, sell them for 20 bucks, or 1 billion. Each of the step is exploited, but some steps get 10-100 bucks an hour, while some get 0.7 bucks an hour. Could it be that getting started at t-shirts at their equal price of 15-20 bucks would rather cut down profits of all middle men involved, and make them more expensive at end point, reducing available consumption basket of imperial core workers and amount of jobs available simultaneously (so both losing jobs and reducing treats?)

    Or could it be that tech and pharma workers sans trade deals enshrining ip laws in global south would not get that much money to spend on luxury items produced by global north workers? Or be so attractively compensated that best brains in global south/internal periphery dream of going to core?

    One can imagine that global north issue is how much disposable income you get after rent and where oscillations of 3% in salary/inflation can both bring you under or pay you more than salary in poorer half of global south just in increase alone

    Ceo with worker hat (as a manager, sans external holdings) is also exploited, eg they bring more money to stock holders than their compensation package, or they wouldn’t be hired

    Now, on the other hand, waiting for global south revolt and sitting on your ass seems like a losing proposition as well, but not because it can’t happen sometimes, but rather military, economical and ideological disparity is too great and seems like there is not enough industrial (producing commodities) jobs to go around the world in any case, so any country acting alone would get couped/outcompeted/bombed to shits. What you can do about it is a harder question, but dismissal it as a question at all seems rather cowardly

    *and another fucking thing, where is imperial core trash going, do look it up for fun. Things would cost a lot more, if their disposal was included as disposal, not dumping them on shores of africa/south east asia