• LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    ngl I’d turn against my fellow man if I, exclusively, was offered a couple mil untaxed income instantly from a billionaire

      • MordercaSkurwysyn@lemm.ee
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        26 days ago

        In my workplace filled with engineers there was a good ammount of trust for management for years, our director was considered to be a cool, unrestanding guy. It toppled in an instant when a new CEO decided to implement new set of much stricter rules that made everyone realise they are indeed members of working class and not the mythical middle class. It doesn’t change much that your tool is a computer and not a greasy, dirty and smelly machine and your job requires a degree, if you work for a private enterprise your work and life is not worth more than an imaginary number representing a market value of the company. From my perspective it’s funny to see how belief in meritocracy falls after years of being made fun of for mocking it.

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        26 days ago

        oh for sure. if I’m gonna sell out humanity, I’m gonna make sure to give you guys the respect you deserve by making sure I’m paid in full.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      25 days ago

      You’re not alone. Karel Čurda turned in Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš for assassinating Reinhard Heydrich (The naziest nazi of all the nazis, also the chief implementer of the Holocaust. Also the only assassination effort implemented by the Allies). Čurda got the reward of one million Reichmarks for betraying his own sabotage team.

      Čurda would then be hanged for high treason in 1947.

    • DragonAce@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Well that couple mil is gonna be completely useless if we go into a depression or worse suffer a total economic collapse.