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Humans tend to suck. The internet is just this presented in a hyper way. Layers of obfuscation created by the consuming of technology.. What's so grea...
January 01, 2022 at 19:25
Yes, but no one's going to give up the technology once they have it. You can prevent future humans from living through what you are describing though....
January 01, 2022 at 19:20
Ah yes, please enlighten me on your obviously objective version of a definition that is inherently a whole litany of aspects.. private ownership of ca...
January 01, 2022 at 17:50
Every definition is a variation of the same thing. Private ownership, free markets, etc. Just because you have a pet definition, doesn’t change the ge...
January 01, 2022 at 15:07
How would you define it? Copy paste Wikipedia? It can have many aspects, but a defining one is private CAPITAL.
January 01, 2022 at 08:43
Being able to own the capital to make products to sell.
January 01, 2022 at 03:23
Excellent comrade...
January 01, 2022 at 03:22
Im just surprised you wouldn’t be for a higher authority stepping in with socialist tendencies.
January 01, 2022 at 00:45
True enough. Alabama made wrong decisions in 1952. Took US government to make right decision in 1964.
January 01, 2022 at 00:43
Agreed. But sometimes regional management makes the wrong decision. Then what? He can still override. Regional managers can tell people to come into w...
January 01, 2022 at 00:38
@"Bitter Crank" @"Hanover" @"Maw" @"Xtrix" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/31/business/bernie-sanders-warren-buffett-steelworkers-strike/index.html Though...
December 31, 2021 at 23:42
How so? Look at Chernobyl.. Eek.. Comrade.. do this..Should we? I don't know how? Comarade, do it or else... Haha very true! Ok, so what does he say a...
December 31, 2021 at 23:03
Agreed, but I think this is leaving out something major.. That is to say, small businesses at their early phases are run a lot by the owners (though n...
December 31, 2021 at 19:19
Got me. He is doing them a favor.. During COVID, you need exactly someone liberal enough to be a release valve..It's exactly crises like these that ar...
December 31, 2021 at 19:13
Not to derail my own thread, but this is wrong because not experiencing joy is not good or bad if no one is around to know. PREVENTING bad when one is...
December 31, 2021 at 19:12
I mean, it's not that hard to understand to me. Marx didn't predict that the government could be so involved in stop-gaps (think FDR in the Great Depr...
December 31, 2021 at 18:33
Absolutely not my position at all. Putting someone else in a situation that experiences hardship is just wrong, period. Hence my antinatalism. I don't...
December 31, 2021 at 18:31
Understood. So I guess the best means to communism is let capitalism do its thing, cause it will just "get" there one day. I think @"Maw" had some goo...
December 31, 2021 at 17:59
Yeah man, I consider life and ALL working arrangements unjust. I think the issue lies in a much more fundamental problem with putting more people in a...
December 31, 2021 at 17:51
Barring corruption (which is its own problem), what is inherently wrong with owning the means to produce products and services if you got it with your...
December 31, 2021 at 16:29
I think our current system doesn't show the avenues very well for how one can become their own business owner. In the 18th and 19th century, it really...
December 31, 2021 at 16:06
I think your best argument here is that individual ideas belong to the community.. but you should back that up with more argumentation because that is...
December 31, 2021 at 15:59
How would a business legitimately form in your opinion? It sounds to me that it would be just as impersonal as today.. Some big thing X (capitalist in...
December 31, 2021 at 15:37
Granted that the owner wants to make as much profit as possible, if we go back to the great "chain of being" in his company.. Isn't it fair in a certa...
December 31, 2021 at 05:06
Small businesses may not necessarily be in the category of , but are more likely to be than larger ones.. Looks like small businesses (less than 500 e...
December 31, 2021 at 04:46
But the capitalist side will just say that the reason the capitalist is the capitalist (barring CEOs that are just figurehead types or inherited wealt...
December 31, 2021 at 04:32
Yes, you are pretty much representing this view here: and here:
December 31, 2021 at 04:08
Yes, I am just trying to get at, how a socialist regime solves anything different than a capitalist one.. It sounds like you're saying that a socialis...
December 31, 2021 at 04:05
I'd like to know, what makes one person able and willing to be an owner, and another only able to work for them? @"Bitter Crank", I think this gets to...
December 31, 2021 at 03:34
I guess Bitter, what I am getting at is, in a socialist world, it seems that because it is run by the same human personality-types, and because the fu...
December 31, 2021 at 03:02
Who decides what gets made? Isn't that going right back to politburos and oligarchic dictatorships? 1984 and all that?
December 31, 2021 at 02:59
Though there's nepotism, isn't that how we do things now? Those who went school for X (doctor, lawyer, engineer, programmer) get the benefits of Y mon...
December 31, 2021 at 02:56
Just wondering how would technology and products and services be distributed in your world? Right now it starts with the business owner employing work...
December 30, 2021 at 22:18
I think perhaps the point for hardcore socialists is that this economic model would be best to alleviate these things. The indifference, cruelty, and ...
December 30, 2021 at 17:45
But the argument isn’t that they’re deserving of rewards for already having money but due to their efforts to initially grow their business, they dese...
December 30, 2021 at 17:36
I’d like to see how people like @"Bitter Crank" and@"StreetlightX" answer this type of response. I think the left tends to disregard this kind of resp...
December 30, 2021 at 16:26
Granted, I'd agree with all of this.. I think maybe my use of CEO was misleading throughout here. Let's pretend it is simply a business owner.. The CE...
December 30, 2021 at 14:02
Why are yo so dismissive? Because I am giving you the other side? Ridiculous. Looks like Bitter Crank did the heavy lifting for you anyways.. Not my f...
December 30, 2021 at 13:36
You said this.. I gave examples of a single person coming up with an idea and capital and then growing it such as here: and here What about those kind...
December 30, 2021 at 13:32
You always answer like this. Sad, since I genuinely wanted to see your response in particular. This last post directly answered your notion that only ...
December 30, 2021 at 13:00
@"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Xtrix"@"Albero" @"Raymond" @"praxis", I am actually more in sympathy with you than certainly @"NOS4A2" position here. I am ...
December 30, 2021 at 03:34
Haha thank you Bitter Crank! Happy New Year.
December 30, 2021 at 03:06
Granted, but the start of a corporation will say something like the following: Do you know how to manufacture X? Did you know how to bring together th...
December 29, 2021 at 14:43
Is surplus theory of value going to convince someone who is able to go on a vacation and BBQ and own a house that the CEO is so bad? The only thing th...
December 29, 2021 at 06:56
@"StreetlightX" did have an intriguing response: Sure, and this is what kings and lords said to their serfs too - and they were largely right. Which i...
December 29, 2021 at 06:33
Can you elaborate on those principles? From that quote I can see basically that no hierarchies are crucial to your beliefs. What would you say to the ...
December 29, 2021 at 06:11
Oh c'mon StreetlightX, you can do better than a red herring. Yes, I have strong antinatalist ideas.. If you look between the lines, that whole scenari...
December 29, 2021 at 05:44
Ok, so what is your position? All I know is that you believe in taking away capital as it currently is, and that you don't want to discuss what your v...
December 29, 2021 at 05:35
The CEO of a small tech company gets paid $2 million. The head developer gets paid $300,000. A mid-level developer and R&D personnel $150,000. The tec...
December 29, 2021 at 05:27
You contradicted yourself.. "A change of regime of property" would unravel these things. Not philosophical? Hardly. It is simply observation of what w...
December 29, 2021 at 04:29