this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

"Pandora's box" e.g. employees receiving a reasonable share of the profits their work generated instead of the current Pandora's box of a few billionaires with a lucky name reaping all of it

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

B-b-but how will the shareholders get their compensation for all the work they don't do?

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 month ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

damn, that's a lot of money.

[–] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Now watch as the south korean economy suddenly starts to boom from the new liquidity available to people getting this money back into it instead of it being hoarded by the ultra rich.

[–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, major props to the Korean workforce if they can pull this off!

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

it gives me hope that collectivism isn't totally dead.

it makes me wonder if the mandatory military service installed a sense of discipline among the working class that's absent in most of the western world.