Funny how a left wing ideology is always 'colouring' someone's interpretations, but more centrist views are apparently transparent. Our ideology 'colo...
But all those parts belong to the corporation, not the owner. You can't have it both ways. Later on you want to distance the 'bricks and mortar' from ...
Yes, it's frightening how quickly these sorts of narratives can take hold, as if the past weren't written in black and white for everyone to see. Go b...
@"Manuel"'s question was about the solution, not the problem. It's lazy virtue signaling to just whinge on about the extent to which Russia's attitude...
Understood, but the status quo has no reason to take default position here. If worker-ownersip were to be championed as the norm, I agree it need be j...
Good question, what could it possibly be...? https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-war-profiteers-stock-lockheed-martin-raytheon-investment-2022-3?...
A fact that isn't correct isn't a fact though, is it? Out of the facts (propositions which are correct), what is wrong with selecting those which supp...
I see. Then consider me provoked. Interesting idea, unfortunately 'token' is already much used in the literature on the subject and I don't think I ha...
Yeah, not only odd alliances, but the beliefs become tokens of group membership. To strongly profess a belief that X is to be s member of that group. ...
Yes. I think the problem has been mis-targeted. The narrative here seems to be that people are just stupid and we need to control the media so they do...
I think the problem is that 'truth' needs to be assessed. We cannot just 'see' it, we need to discover it. That requires an institution. Newspapers ar...
How do you see such laws working? Presumably, absent of investigations, no judge is going to somehow know what is 'true' so the law would have to requ...
This is really interesting. Can we actually manipulate income disparity by fixing rates of return for investments (assuming a rational actor would alw...
It's not rocket science. I just want you to explain your analogy to me. How does one bully punching the other bully in the nose create a more peaceful...
Thanks. I thought I'd got that wrong. So the narrative I'm pushing back against is the idea that owners deserve the profits because the risk they take...
That's brilliant. Now extrapolate that to a world full of bullies and explain how one bully smashing the other bully in the nose brings about peace. B...
I see, yes. So to get at what I was thinking it would be more like... Split the population of gamblers into two groups {the poor} and {the rich}. If g...
In our current society, yes. But we're the blind leading the blind here. I think the term I should be using is actually 'insolvency' since we're talki...
Yeah, that's true. I think the 'small business' model is a bit different. It still seems that bankruptcy laws protect the small business owner from ri...
Exactly. There's two options. 1) Negotiate a peace deal. 2) Defeat Russia so utterly they have no bargaining position. For the first Ukraine needs a p...
I hate to say it, but I'm actually glad at this stage that the US, and I suspect Russia, are run by klepocratic opportunists. Their greed may be the o...
I think our main saviour at the moment is that nuclear war would be bad economics. Whilst it behoves the American administration to whip up a social m...
There was dialogue during the cold war (thank god). There was dialogue with Hezbollah, the Taliban... The problem is we're having politics by fucking ...
It does, but what does that matter to the owners? They own a varied portfolio of stock and will often make as much running a company into the ground a...
This falsely assumes the interests of the firm are contained in a proper reading of a balance sheet. Firms may have social interests. There's no reaso...
And in the US... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.krmho-GvnAPkELTIuLnq_gHaD2%26pid%3DApi&f...
I'm not playing 'get to know you in 20 questions', there's no need for me to guess. I've got a pretty clear idea of the narrative you prefer, but if t...
Go on then... You've yet to connect any law by any mechanism to ensuring the provision of adequate healthcare, education, infrastructure, public trans...
Yes. I have no issue at all with you claiming your preferred narrative is plausible. I completely agree. As for evidence, the threshold to prove a nar...
This level of analysis doesn't work. You start from an assumption that the meaning of a proposition can be questioned "X exists", but then you analyse...
No. No one here has claimed that. People have suggested it is plausible. And no one has given any indication that you ought to believe it either. In f...
Ah, so now he's a credible source. The moment he starts saying something you already agree with. And the others...? I'm not making a case. I'm critici...
Yeah. And I'd add to that the fact that the claims here are asymmetric. One side is merely claiming a position to be plausible, the other is claiming ...
Which ones? And how do they work? You said.... ... I asked... ...you replied... ...so I assume you include the majority of bankers stock traders and C...
What counts as 'credible' for the purposes of the points you're trying to make... US intelligence? Are we seriously surprised that information from US...
Yeah. Likewise, I also checked Google to see where your talking points might be sourced, but nothing respectable turned up either. Funny how when one ...
Go on... Which laws ensure adequate healthcare, education, infrastructure, public transportation, and housing and how do they do so? So most stock exc...
Again, I didn't ask how it might happen. I asked how we ensure it actually does. Who would those be then? So someone who inherited their wealth ought ...
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