Binning households into income groups, we estimate the highest earning 30% of households are responsible for about 70% of income-based NE while the lowest earning 70% are responsible for only about 30% NE.

Says it all, really. The wealthy disproportionately command an overwhelming amount of wealth generated, and also overwhelmingly are responsible for carbon emissions (70%, despite making up only 30% of the population). But let’s talk about skipping a meal and not using plastic straws, and how this is all an individual effort instead of a class struggle. /s

Climate change is the newer equivalent of wealthy groups dumping toxic waste near poor neighborhoods. The wealthy will be able to safe guard against a lot of the damage to themselves (but not all; they are still doing the equivalent of sitting in a car and letting it run with the garage door closed). The working class? Not so much.

Thank you for sharing! I probably wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.

Great breakdown! Given that this is Lemmy and we trend toward more tech focused, people might gel better with Apple and Microsoft. If anyone is confused about what you wrote but the my understand big tech tax evasion, it is basically the same set of steps.

Big tech just doesn’t pay residuals.

Apple is well known for their Irish tax haven holding all of their IP and other rights so Apple can lease it back from themselves and account for pure profit as expenses. That’s also how Amazon pays little to no taxes. Or sometimes these company’s pay negative tax rates meaning they get government welfare to buy billionaires fudge rounds presumably, in conservative populist parlance.

Also to add on to my earlier comment, after some research it appears that the standard union contract prior to the strike has always been based on gross revenue instead of net. So it is consistent with why the WGA put this out.

Revenue is used because this industry is notorious for “Hollywood accounting” to avoid having any actual profits to avoid residuals based on net.

Some of the biggesr blockbusters of all time are, thanks to Hollywood accounting, net losers. Forrest Gump is a classic example: it made almost a billion dollars in revenue vs a $55 million budget. But thanks to tax evasion techniques the movie is actually a huge financial loser on paper, losing more than $65 million if you look at net.

You can’t trust non-workers, who exist entirely off the wealth they can cheat out of workers, to be honest.

So that is why gross revenue is used in Hollywood.

Edit: to add on to that Gump example, the author was supposed to be paid based on net. He got totally fucked which is why no sequel was made. His IP created a billion+ dollars out of thin air, but blood sucking capitalist parasites leech it all away with tax evasion.

I have the South Park bundle from Steam. The Ubisoft launcher wasn’t an issue, more of a minor annoyance because you need to log into it every so often.

A bigger issue is that both Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole suffer from random freezes that require killing the game from the Steam Deck menu. It doesn’t appear to be universal, but other folks have said the same thing on ProtonDB. Tinkering with proton versions hasn’t fixed it for me yet.