Salary negotiations are going well 🙃

Not sure if this belongs here but felt it was appropriate.

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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 297d

A worker does all the work to generate profit

The company takes all the profit and nobody bats an eye

The worker asks for some of the profit and everyone loses their minds

aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 14 pts · 297d (8 replies)
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the_q@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 297d (6 replies)
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aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 297d (5 replies)
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the_q@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 297d (4 replies)
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aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 297d (3 replies)
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the_q@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 297d (2 replies)
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aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 297d (1 reply)
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the_q@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 297d
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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 296d

Anytime employees ask for wage increases, all of these economist complain how it will rAiSe PrIcEs!

And I'm glad you got yours. Now help others get theirs.

DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 297d (3 replies)

There's probably a simple explanation for it, but it's weird to me that the bottom text has a fixed height* but the top has oversized Cs, Gs, Os, and Ss.

*or whatever the proper font terminology equivalent might be

I'm choosing to believe it's another element of the meme displaying the Joker's disregard for order or something.

FateOfTheCrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 297d

We live in a society, where the bottom is kept in line, but the top is allowed to disregard the rules. Typographers rise up.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 296d

Huh never noticed. I used imgflip to make the meme.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d

bottom text looks a size smaller too. that shift in font size could level out those differences

masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 296d

Capitalists don't "create" employment - they gatekeep it.