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400x not 400%

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lol 400%?

Try 27,200%. That is the actual ratio on publicly traded companies.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

400% is an old number, and it was pretty outrageous even back then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] jballs 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean to do a multiplication sign instead of a %. The GM CEO made $29,000,000 last year. It would take a GM worker 362 years to make CEO Mary Barra's annual compensation.

Source : https://www.businessinsider.com/uaw-strike-automaker-ceo-pay-focus-of-union-negotiations-2023-9

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck me i suck at math... fuck fuck fuck

[–] jballs 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is the text related to the image? And where is the meme?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt

The inspiration for these memes was simple: Nazis don’t deserve Saint Dale.

“The idea for the page came about back in early 2017 when the alt-right were trying to make anything they could into a racist meme, including cow’s milk,” said the person behind The Ghost of Ol Dale Earnhardt, who asked to remain anonymous. “I was pretty heavily involved in the Weird Appalachia Facebook group, where Sid Hatfield and Dolly Parton are patron saints of Cornbread Communism, and a huge fan of the Old Stone Cold page. Everything sorta clicked so I decided to combine all these influences and claim Dale as a meme for the rural southern Left, which at the time was mostly either ignored or laughed at.”

Full article from Slate

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What does this have to do with Nascar? Is it just because of all the advertisements on the side?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I also wonder why Dale Earnhardt senior has suddenly been resurrected as the face of this anti corporate sponsorship meme stream when his entire career was entirely corporate sponsored

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Because raise hell, praise Dale. Duh.

[–] eestileib 13 points 11 months ago

NASCAR was originally about bootleggers telling the ATF to go fuck themselves. It used to be a counterculture before, like country music, it got appropriated.

And Dale didn't give a fuck about sucking up to rich people.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

CEOs are the most leeching of scum the human race has ever made

At least when a king or empire extracted money - they'd invest it back into the kingdom in some way shape or form.

CEOs have zero reason to invest back into the labour pool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

At least when a king or empire extracted money

They really did not. You may have had one or two that wanted more for the country. Most were just greedy shithouses who could not care at all. Unless they needed bodies for a war OFC, then the dynamic changes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

For all the people saying "this is not a meme" or confused about what it has to do with NASCAR, here's an article from Slate to fill you in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This isn't really a meme, it just says how capitalism works. I guess it could be making fun if the stereotypical lefty meme though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It frustrates me how much workers have forgotten that they can gain immense power through unionization. Labor regularly votes down having more say in their own workplace. It baffles the mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Whoa! So edgy!!

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