Author Topic: china's impact on the future of videogames  (Read 8786 times)

"paying taxes is for chumps"
curious how fast you'll go to jail for that
also pretty sure they will use force if necessary

Taxation is theft

tencent now sponsors the office complex i work at :L

Taxation is theft
your boss steals far more from you in a year than taxes ever could in your life

your boss steals far more from you in a year than taxes ever could in your life

This is a false statement. The government throws you taxes on EVERYTHING. And that totals to more $$$ than what a boss takes. Infact, it's outright illegal for a boss to take money from you in an unfair manner without your consent. But why is the government immune to such laws? They're legal criminals, that's why. Legal criminals that give more money to investors (China and Israel) than they give for the good of the American people. I blame the fact we let the smart, cunning, strong politicians die in wars, granting the weak the power to vote for whatever limp-richard lawyer promises.


Infact, it's outright illegal for a boss to take money from you in an unfair manner without your consent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_payment_systems

turns out you don't know anything about economics

also lol at the implication that business owners follow laws
« Last Edit: October 25, 2019, 05:39:56 PM by Aide33 »

also even if you don't believe profit is actually theft, wage theft in its purest form(stealing earned wages from workers) is incredibly common and is a MASSIVE problem in the world. it's one of the most common forms of breaking the law ever, there are literally thousands of minimum wage violation cases every year in the united states alone.

not only that, but people get denied their wages in illegal ways so much that it's a huge amount worse than the total losses to robbery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft

For an example of minimum wage violations:
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Minimum wage is enforced by the Wage and Hour Division (WHD). WHD is generally contacted by 25,000 people a year in regards to concerns and violations of minimum wage pay. A common form of wage theft for tipped employees is to receive no standard pay ($2.13 an hour) along with tips.

Companies misclassify jobs as independent contractors so that they don't have to pay minimum wager/healtcare/etc.:
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The difference between the two classifications depends on the permanency of the employment, opportunity for profit and loss, the worker's level of self-employment along with their degree of control. An independent contractor is not entitled to minimum wage, overtime, insurance, protection, or other employee rights. Attempts are sometimes made to define ordinary employees as independent contractors[...]

Misclassification in the United States is extensive. In New York state, for example, it was found in a 2007 study that approximately 704,785 workers, or 10.3% of the state's private sector workforce, was misclassified each year. For the industries covered in the study, average unemployment insurance taxable wages underreported due to misclassification was on average $4.3 billion for the year and unemployment insurance tax underreported in these industries was $176 million.

These don't include, illegal deductions, literal blatant wage theft, and other forms of wage theft that exist.

If you want a total summary of all of it you can see that:
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Sixty-eight percent of the surveyed workers experienced at least one pay-related violation in the week prior to the survey. On average the workers in the three cities lost a total of $2,634 annually due to workplace violations, out of an average income of $17,616, which translates into wage theft of fifteen percent of income. Extrapolating from these figures, low wage workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City lost more than $2.9 billion due to employment and labor law violations. Nationally it is estimated that workers are not paid at least $19 billion every year in overtime and that in the US $40 billion to $60 billion in total are lost annually due to all forms of wage theft. This compares to national annual losses of $340 million due to robbery, $4.1 billion due to burglary, $5.3 billion due to larceny, and $3.8 billion due to auto theft in 2012.

The exact numbers depend on the study you read, but each of them places wage theft from average Americans at billions of dollars stolen every year.

you don't know anything about economics

Noone does, you buffoon.

also lol at the implication that business owners follow laws

If they don't follow laws and infringe human rights I don't see why we shouldn't kill em


Taxation is theft, can you please stop repeating what I say

This is a false statement. The government throws you taxes on EVERYTHING. And that totals to more $$$ than what a boss takes. Infact, it's outright illegal for a boss to take money from you in an unfair manner without your consent.
foolish child, your boss steals the value of your labor, not your actual cash

foolish child, your boss steals the value of your labor, not your actual cash

I'm going to bash your head in.

convincing argument, im now an anarchist

Going back to the original topic at hand:

By now, Blitzchung has written a statement that he is happy Blizzard lowered the sanctions against his actions. He does however ask that the casters that got banned for 6 months get their punishment removed completely.
(Sauce: https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sr1jn4 )
The American collegiate team that did not get punished for their similar action now got similar punishments to Blitzchung (namely, getting banned for 6 months).
(Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstone-collegiate-team-that-held-up-a-free-hong-kong-sign-has-been-suspended/ )
Lastly, some members of the Congress have sent a letter to Blizzard condemning them for their actions against free speech and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
(Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/bipartisan-members-of-congress-call-on-blizzard-to-reverse-blitzchung-punishment/ )


so many companies are sucking chinese richard it isnt funny anymore

他妈的美国。 我和我的同志讨厌美国。香港是中国。中国是香港。

yes, ching chong my ferrow forumer.