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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

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Date Created: June 21, 2023

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (13 children)

Revenue does not mean gross profit. Gross profit does not mean net earnings. The numbers this person posted is the money the conpany gets before any operation costs. This means this is how much the product sold regardless of how much it costs to produce, package, ship, r&d, worker cost, etc. This meme has to stop its poisoning your brains

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

These numbers are gross profit. A quick search would verify this for yourself.
You seem to misunderstand what gross profit is because you decided to make a weird word salad.
Gross profit is the profit a business makes after subtracting all the costs that are related to manufacturing and selling its products or services.
So the numbers are relevant. It's not worker wages that are the driving inflation. It's not government handouts driving inflation. It's corporate profits that are driving inflation

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Gross profit is NOT how much money a company makes after all costs. This is the basic misunderstanding. Here is an example

Kraft Heinz Quarterly Revenue

2023-09-30 $6,570

2023-06-30 $6,721

2023-03-31 $6,489

2022-12-31$7,381

TOTAL: 27.161B

Kraft Heinz Quarterly Gross Profit

2023-09-30 $2.235B

2023-06-30 $2.261B

2023-03-31 $2.113B

2022-12-31 $2.364B

Total: $8.973B

Kraft Heinz Quarterly Net Profit

2023-09-30 $262M

2023-06-30 $1,000M

2023-03-31 $836M

2022-12-31 $890M

Total: 2.988B

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KHC/kraft-heinz/revenue

For clarification, I'm not saying I'm against increasing labor pay. I am just saying the numbers used are misleading.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But only some numbers. Apple's, for instance, is net profit from what I can see. Heinz isn't. I haven't looked into any more of them, but they're just inconsistent.

Crappy posts like this bug me so much because it makes "my side" look like we're full of shit. There are mountains of true and verified facts to support the conclusion that workers should be paid more and corporations are ruthlessly greedy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This exactly. We don't need to fluff or bullshit numbers just to prove that corporations are fucking over their labor and the customers.

[–] brbposting 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can mods add a caveat to a post on Lemmy?

Also:

@[email protected]

Please edit your post title to reflect likely inaccuracy/inconsistency of some numbers. e.g.: “[may be misleading; see comments]”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

As much as I hate Twitter, the feature where users can add context would be amazing on other platforms. Would love to see it on Lemmy.

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