• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    The only way to become a billionaire is to solely work in your own best interest, and steal the value produced by the labour of your employees.

    Fuck off, cuban. youre one of them

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      28 days ago

      The only way to become a billionaire is to solely work in your own best interest, and steal the value produced by the labour of your employees.

      How exactly did Cuban do that? All he did was be on the winning end of an incredibly bad transaction by Yahoo, and parlayed that into being on TV a lot.

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        28 days ago

        Do you think he just magicked up an investment? He built a company bought by yahoo. How do you think he created the company broadcast up to that point? By himself? Or did he perhaps have employees who did the hard work?

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          28 days ago

          Building the company isn’t what made him a billionaire. Yahoo grossly overpaying for it is what made him a billionaire.

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            28 days ago

            And who profited, disproportionately, from the company’s acquisition by Yahoo? The employees who worked to build it into what it was?

            Did they get their fair share of that ‘grossly overpaying’ by Yahoo?

            They didn’t? <Shocked Pikachu>

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              28 days ago

              Did they get their fair share of that ‘grossly overpaying’ by Yahoo?

              If they owned shares, yes. If they didn’t, then why should they? The owners of the company sold the company at a massively overinflated valuation, so the shares were “worth” a lot of money. This really isn’t a complicated situation.

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                  27 days ago

                  Work and ownership are not the same. If I hire a plumber to fix something in my house, does he become a part owner of it?

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                    27 days ago

                    If you hire a plumber, you do it as a customer and not an employer. Quite a difference!

                    A customer pays the full value of the purchase, the plumber is the one in charge and charges as much as possible. That’s how they make profit. That’s why you still own your toilet, the plumber already got the full value they were owed.

                    An employer never pays the full value, though! The employer, as the one in charge, pays as little as possible. They pockst the difference as profit. That means the employees are always cheated out of the full value of their labor, they are never paid what they are actually worth.