Minus whatever expenses the pod has, minus taxes if they pay business taxes, split three ways, minus all their personal taxes, and I think they live in high cost of living cities. It's the gross v net thing. They're probably doing pretty okay, but it's like upper middle income okay, not cocaine dusted donuts every day okay. And afaik they're not exploiting anyone's labor, regardless of how much the pod pulls in. Maybe some of the people who run patreon?
We get in to this "are artisans, craftsmen, and other self-employed people with no employees workers or bourgeisie" thing every few months.
That's still $400k/yr gross per person. A podcast doesn't have the same expenses like a major Breadtube channel (eg Contrapoints). At least for Contrapoint's case, she has actual staff (researcher, costume designer) to pay plus the expenses associated with her costume plus (most likely) a warehouse lease to store her costume and props. She at least has to drive around in order to shoot footage because she's mostly likely not living within walking distance from her stored costumes, so there's also gas that you could add to as expenses. A podcast has almost negligible yearly expenses. Unless you think Patreon gets a cut of like 60%, how much is each individual's net income after their negligible expenses and taxes? $300k/yr? $250k/yr? $200k/yr?
We get in to this "are artisans, craftsmen, and other self-employed people with no employees workers or bourgeisie" thing every few months.
It has nothing to do with their class background and more to do with being against hoarding and hoarders. That's how the Marx's quote is applicable in capitalist society. Some prole who won a lottery ticket and suddenly sees $100M added to their bank account should be condemned as a hoarder if they don't redistribute part of that $100M among their family, friends, and charity. This is regardless of whether the prole is not a socialist or how much they were previously exploited. When that $100M check clears, redistribution needs to happen. Of course, living in a capitalist hellhole molds you to act like an individualist, to spit in the face of every person who has supported you up to that point and to believe every single person including people who were supporting you up to that point is some con artist or scammer. Part of acting like an individualist is to believe your earnings belong to you only. This also bleeds into socialists when they start saying things like, "Workers are fully entitled to the fruits of their labor." This is untrue. It's people who need them the most that are first entitled to the fruits of worker's labor.
Yeah, not to mention that if one talks a big game about solidarity and the power of a union during the good times and the wins, they had better show up when the inevitable corporate ratfuckery comes around.
It's not his fault they Sapporo went nuclear, but all that solidarity talk then should oblige him to some material support for the affected workers, and definite signal boosting of any efforts to turn it into a worker co-op.
This holier than thou posting makes me feel absolutely certain you’re eating nothing but rice and multivitamin gummies so as to direct as much of your cash to the starving Tigray in Ethiopia.
$5 a day and you’re living in luxury compared to them so I’m sure you’re living in less than that.
Minus whatever expenses the pod has, minus taxes if they pay business taxes, split three ways, minus all their personal taxes, and I think they live in high cost of living cities. It's the gross v net thing. They're probably doing pretty okay, but it's like upper middle income okay, not cocaine dusted donuts every day okay. And afaik they're not exploiting anyone's labor, regardless of how much the pod pulls in. Maybe some of the people who run patreon?
We get in to this "are artisans, craftsmen, and other self-employed people with no employees workers or bourgeisie" thing every few months.
That's still $400k/yr gross per person. A podcast doesn't have the same expenses like a major Breadtube channel (eg Contrapoints). At least for Contrapoint's case, she has actual staff (researcher, costume designer) to pay plus the expenses associated with her costume plus (most likely) a warehouse lease to store her costume and props. She at least has to drive around in order to shoot footage because she's mostly likely not living within walking distance from her stored costumes, so there's also gas that you could add to as expenses. A podcast has almost negligible yearly expenses. Unless you think Patreon gets a cut of like 60%, how much is each individual's net income after their negligible expenses and taxes? $300k/yr? $250k/yr? $200k/yr?
It has nothing to do with their class background and more to do with being against hoarding and hoarders. That's how the Marx's quote is applicable in capitalist society. Some prole who won a lottery ticket and suddenly sees $100M added to their bank account should be condemned as a hoarder if they don't redistribute part of that $100M among their family, friends, and charity. This is regardless of whether the prole is not a socialist or how much they were previously exploited. When that $100M check clears, redistribution needs to happen. Of course, living in a capitalist hellhole molds you to act like an individualist, to spit in the face of every person who has supported you up to that point and to believe every single person including people who were supporting you up to that point is some con artist or scammer. Part of acting like an individualist is to believe your earnings belong to you only. This also bleeds into socialists when they start saying things like, "Workers are fully entitled to the fruits of their labor." This is untrue. It's people who need them the most that are first entitled to the fruits of worker's labor.
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Yeah, not to mention that if one talks a big game about solidarity and the power of a union during the good times and the wins, they had better show up when the inevitable corporate ratfuckery comes around.
It's not his fault they Sapporo went nuclear, but all that solidarity talk then should oblige him to some material support for the affected workers, and definite signal boosting of any efforts to turn it into a worker co-op.
This holier than thou posting makes me feel absolutely certain you’re eating nothing but rice and multivitamin gummies so as to direct as much of your cash to the starving Tigray in Ethiopia.
$5 a day and you’re living in luxury compared to them so I’m sure you’re living in less than that.
they could be petty bourgeois or professional managers, in a word.