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Cake day: June 14th, 2024

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  • That’s just salaried folks though. The vast majority of american workers are hourly or contractors. Per the Dept of Labor’s own site:

    The Wage and Hour Division is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the welfare of the nation’s workforce with a focus on low-wage, underserved workers. In fiscal year 2023, we successfully recovered over $274 million in back wages and damages for more than 163,000 workers nationwide.

    Wage theft is when employers don’t properly pay their employees and is a HUGE problem because it isn’t always out of malevolence, it can be as simple as the time clock not properly computing overtime, etc.

    If you don’t think that $274 million is large amount, think about how the vast majority of these things never get reported to the authorities; that number should be higher.

    Source for quote: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data





  • Because doing crap like this is how the rich avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

    And yes running it a loss is a legitimate thing:

    1. Open up subsidiary company that you know/think will operate at a loss or near loss
    2. Use the negative profit to offset positive profit from another subsidiary (main operations for example)
    3. Parent company now has lower NET Profit!! Thus paying less in taxes since your “income” is now much lower than it was before.
    4. Laugh at the taxman because you just got away with stealing from your countrymen

    That’s just an off the cuff example, obviously it can be a little more complicated depending on the jurisdiction


  • The cautionary note against “feminist propaganda” is a reminder that Game Science have yet to respond to allegations of pervasive sexist behaviour from November last year. In a lengthy report for IGN, Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan described “a studio plagued by claims of sexism”, linking this to misogyny elsewhere in the Chinese games industry and on the government-firewalled Chinese internet. The developers have raised the drawbridge in response: when Edders attended a preview event earlier this year, they refused to say anything on the subject in advance.

    JFC, fuck this company.

    I think they’re asking people to find their games on the high seas and stream while crossdressing and just speaking in quotes/ about their forbidden list. 🤔