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No. He doesn't.

I'm not sure there is any way to keep that handful of rich people from taking over financial policy with or without inheritance tax. Once they exist, ...

Thank you so much.

I'd be really interested in any more you have to say about that.

We become aware of our own forms of life because we can compare ourselves to people in other cultures or other eras. Taking that idea deeper isn't unc...

Hi! Would you mind presenting a quick explanation of the argument? I'll pay you in hamburgers.

Just a note: Aristotle was familiar with free markets which were in the process of revolutionizing his world. Like Plato, he was concerned with moral ...

Difference and similarity are properties of relationships then? Your presentation is stuffed full of abstractions. I pointed this out before: they're ...

And are difference and similarity properties of physical objects?

Proof isn't the issue, but I gather you're saying number is a property of physical objects and nothing more? Correct?

It means mathematical truths have the character of the discovered. One can be wrong about math. There are options for explaining this, or you can leav...

There are physical objects like rocks, mental objects like whatever you happen to be sensing now, and abstract objects like mathematical entities. I t...

It doesn't, anymore than utility helps us decide if mind-independent rocks and such exist.

The Romans also had moments of violent frugality as parties occasionally grasped the meaning of the signs. It's what the system does in the long run t...

Neither do their constituents. That was the point of comparing a democracy to a totalitarian state. In Rome, the power and will to raise taxes existed...

I think 'our intellectual activity' is another abstraction. It's along the lines of a set. I'm pointing to the difficulty in finding a vantage point o...

What is the point of comparing the US to any other nation? In some respects it's unique. The US has the oldest constitution in the world, some would s...

This goes straight to my question: 1. The Roman Empire is a model of a totalitarian state with a massive chronic trade deficit which reached the point...

Our culture is organized around an abstraction: money. That means that abstraction and metaphor are inextricable aspects of the world we are immersed ...

Actually Tom Hanks talked to himself all the way through Cast Away. He wasn't demented.

Shout out to all the Italian great grandfathers that made America what it is. :)

That's right. Praxis: "Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I didn't notice how bigoted that sounded." Frank: "No problem. I knew you weren't a scumbag!...

You think I have to be old to detect your bigotry? I'm a youngster. I just don't have your crippled soul.

That was the biggest bunch of age-ist shit I ever saw. What's wrong with you?

I would try to explain something to you about Weinstein, but I'm pretty sure I'd be wasting my time. Adios!

Cool. I'm interested

That was a good one though. Third world. I'm not lying to you Baden. Presumption of innocence pervades here. To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, ...

Precautionary suspension. We're back to Kavanaugh trying to rape the lawyers who come before the Supreme Court. Good grief. I'm getting there. What I'...

Is there some reason you can't read your own posts?

Sure. That's due to property rights, not Baden's bizarre principle that it's more just to fire accused people than it is to keep them. That's ridiculo...

The History of Money By Jack Weatherford This is is one of the best books I've read in a while. It contains sentences like: "The ancient ruins of the ...

I've said what I had to say. Continue with your mangled comprehension of the world. It's not my problem.

Explain your point again. It seemed to me that you pointed to the development of an American mob as proof that Americans approve of mob behavior.

Among those who spoke out about the rash of career destructions of which Weinstein was the model was Margaret Atwood. She spoke on behalf of the princ...

If I'm innocent, this scenario describes injustice. I'm not asking you to agree or understand. I'm informing you that in my society, though it may hap...

My phone is dying and I'm about to travel. Later.

Yea, you're wrong.

And this is what's really important to me (speaking of minorities). Whoever you are, you'll likely find that applying the principle of presumed innoce...

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I think I'm ready now to present a short anthropological/archeological account of how money takes on value. If you're interested, I could present it a...

This is not how a free market works, so what world is being analyzed? That was my question. In non-free markets, exchange is regulated by officials. A...

I don't understand this: you seem to be following an analysis of a free market (obviously if the sort Marx was familiar with). Why are you thinking in...

Ok.

Ok. But you don't explain things very well.

Sorry. I guess I'm not sure which part to explain because I dont know where our interests intersect. What's fascinating me is the similarities between...

Just a stray note about value: value takes shape in a particular "cultural configuration." A single market can span diverse configurations, which mean...

This forum. No one can maintain coherence for more than two posts.

What right are you talking about? The right to have your juvenile record expunged? The right to have Orrin Hatch ignore the fact that you attempted ra...

I was asking what you believe. Anyway, you're out of step with seasoned Republican senators on the issue of ignoring guilt because his record might ha...

Would you just stop?