Don't send your daughter down the mine Mrs Worthington. Especially in her best dress freshly cleaned and ironed. But this does not answer either, real...
As you see, you have provided us with a holiday from philosophy. We're all doomed, you're probably right. but it's bin fun watching you squirm between...
No, I don't expect it to change by some manipulation. That is rather the point. You keep on with the same old and expect a different result. And even ...
Really poor advice. This is what brought us to this pitch. The bunker mentality. The problem is that we have learned to control the environment, but h...
Sure, they could paper the walls with it. But it wouldn't be an economy, because no one cares what they do. You imagine everything will continue as a ...
I did try to explain. There is nothing 'wrong' with any arrangement you might suggest, except that it does not accord with economics. Adam serves Eve ...
Well yet again I disagree. Government and authority has utterly failed so far to deal with any of the things you mention. What government will inevita...
For 10,000 years or so, our poor old brains have been working and working to make life easier - the wheel to save carrying and dragging stuff, roads t...
I think you are mistaken. Without work, there can be no rich and poor. You have perhaps indicated possible paths, but the end cannot be a continuation...
Well I don't want to argue about the terminology, if you have some workable ideas, never mind the ism they are claimed by, let's discuss them. But at ...
It is still founded on the work ethic. When we do not work, what distinguishes rich from poor in a way that is remotely justifiable? That there should...
Yes please. What is the source of power in this brave new world? Is it maybe this: - In essence, it is already trust, aka 'confidence' that allows the...
Yes, that's the whole problem in a nutshell. We'll get along much better if you will consent to being a little less clear about your lack of specifici...
So you are saying that you do not know what rational means are? Or that you do? Or that you do not know whether you do or not? Perhaps it was irration...
Let me manipulate you into having the right attitude to this problem. It is irrational to suppose that other people are irrational and that I am ratio...
Yes indeed. I am not personally advocating labour, I am describing the economic model. I advocate changing the model. I'm looking for a model that doe...
When there was no overall majority, that was a possibility, but not now. The tories have their majority, they can damn well take the responsibility wi...
So, one more try to put this starkly and simply. The invisible hand is the social pressure that guides individuals through the operation of their self...
I'm not interested in the Soviet Union as it no longer exists. I am not making political points here and I am not claiming we ought to be producing ca...
Is it too much shock, or am I not making it clear? You philosophers and techies will be fine - for a while. Already in mature democracies people are d...
Yes. What I am saying is that as long as we maintain a society based on money and property, the logic of our own conceptions will lead to our annihila...
I can't see Scotland unifying with Eire in the near term. They would have to go via independence to join the EU. IOW they don't have a potential partn...
Gravity is a concept and doesn't decide anything. But things fall down. Economics is how we conduct social relations. We do it with money. Money is a ...
That is a great question. But it is not an economic question, because Economics is founded on enlightened self-interest. The idea is that nobody has t...
https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/uk-news/one-in-every-200-people-england-now-homeless/ This is not an unfortunate mistake, nor is it a shortage of bricks. Me...
Really? Is it not decided by the invisible hand? If the robot is cheaper, the robot takes the job. And if the the capitalist has scruples he goes out ...
Your graphic shows that it's the NHS what lost it. Once that's been privatised, the average age will drop and Labour will romp home, by natural select...
Half a cookie, for being right but talking confusion. Mine is the only real imagination, so if the man's imagination fails him it is only in my imagin...
I suggest to you that the hard left is best represented by the red wall, the voters who for generations have voted Labour and found it until now unthi...
I think there is no question but that an architect imagines a building that does not exist. The skill is to do so sufficiently realistically that when...
No, I don't think so. Left, sure, but not hard. They are not ex Socialist Workers Party, but ex apathetics by and large.What I am coming to think is t...
They who? Some of 'them' revered him as an almost Christ-like figure. Remember how the party membership increased. An analysis needs to account for bo...
No, I think men and women are different and have different histories. The psychological problem of these communities is that the masculinity of the wo...
Yes, and the women. I'm characterising the culture as was and the radical economic change; women have never been unionised labour to the same extent, ...
The problem is that there is little blue collar work. Large masses of people working in the same place and able to communicate, form bonds and recogni...
Sure, people can vote against class interests on principle. But usually, most of the time, most don't. Unless there is some other factor.The virtue of...
The big question for us namby-pamby socialists is, 'why do turkeys vote for Christmas?' Can it really be that they hate sprouts more than they love li...
The difference between a joke and a dirty trick is whether you get it or not. They are the same thing understood differently. One mans subtle humorist...
Yes, not the quality one would wish for in a corespondent. I do agree with @"leo" though that the lack of notification and inability to display deleti...
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