That's not quite what I meant. On an individual level, my hunting and gathering sufficient to sustain myself for a day takes less than all day, and le...
I might be stating the obvious or wildly off base... It seems to me that commodities arise iff the labour value of 'his daily bread' is less than a da...
Yup, that's not normative because it's conditional on not wanting to electrocute oneself, which is assumed. If one does want to electrocute oneself, t...
His "should not" is unconditional and followed by unconditional commandments. So yes, as moral as the ten commandments. And on the basis of nothing mo...
Not given, but strongly implied. The whole is about finance and education, and if the help was not financial, then I would suggest that the whole is d...
unenlightened's first law of linguistic inadequacy states that no matter how sophisticated the symbols, and no matter how well arranged they are, they...
The same question was asked, and the same question can be asked, and a sensible answer proposed under other assumptions. For example @"Sam26" might an...
I did not say I was wrong, and to do so would have been a performative contradiction. But to admit the possibility is to require of the reader and int...
On the contrary, it is you yourself who have overgeneralised. The Judeo-Christian tradition begins with Genesis, in which you will find an account of ...
M'lud, I call for full disclosure of evidence to the defence, and specification of the occasion of the alleged offence. Furthermore, I wish to object ...
Argument by ridicule is a really pathetic, short-sighted tactic. Please just stop. You are talking to concerned serious and intelligent people who are...
Less meat is not vegan, wearing a sweater is not a prison sentence. You have to have a car, because you have to live a long way from work because you ...
There's no shortage of pain. Pain is not transformative; it's not even much of an aid to learning. It may likely happen, but it certainly isn't requir...
What he said. At the very least, markets need regulating to minimise fraud, mafias, conspiracy, price fixing, etc. More generally, voting as purchasin...
Well, more philosophy, more reason, more cooperation, more knowledge, less greed, less competition, less material accumulation. That sounds like a pla...
Let me spell it out for you with a purely hypothetical example. I am a property developer called Grump, and you are a humble bricky. When times are go...
I need to point out that capitalist economic interests do not equate to vast benefits. For us peasants, we float on the economic tide, and go up when ...
Well I'm going for a social construct view. Along the lines of 'I don't personally believe in the value of money, but since everyone else does, I find...
Spend a couple of minutes attending to this deeply philosophical and enlightening song, that answers your question in great detail, and is not at all ...
I agree with this, but I do not understand what you think might be done about it. On a personal level, I cannot unlearn even my times tables. And on a...
It's not something one would feel, like an attack of radicalism or something, but something one sees out there - suddenly there seem to be a lot more ...
Sure, some people are impossible; there have always been such. But the topic is hyperinflation. It's as if half the world has become bullies, and the ...
I do. Even though I have been hearing the stories for 50 years. Even though I know that millennialism and doomsayers have been around forever. It seem...
You are wrong. So wrong that this issue is no longer debatable. But fortunately, we agree about some other things, and it is this conflict between our...
To make an error of prediction is not a departure from wisdom and sanity. We understand that prediction is prone to error. An error of 50 years in the...
It's subtle, yet I managed to pick it up, because it is true that I am the wisest person on the forum. (Ain't that the truth!) To say, 'P is true' is ...
We know, unless we are fucking morons, that my hate inspires and legitimises your hate. {But morons are not actually big haters, by and large. Please ...
Yup. If we, you and I, agree about something (God forbid), we agree that we think it is true. But that does not make it true, it only makes it true th...
What about when it's 80- 90%? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/20/when-surgery-is-just-a-stitch-up-placebo-effect So we know that faith he...
Unfortunately, the plan to become saner and wiser, is the plan of the insane and unwise. And the plan to limit our powers, requires the powers we wish...
In practical terms, much has already been mentioned here, reduce meat consumption, improve insulation, reverse desertification, seed the oceans, trave...
The Stoic says that wisdom is to know that you cannot stop the rain, but you can fix the roof. Hume says that you have a passion to stay dry, and reas...
You cannot make friends, you cannot have friends. The nearest you can make is a robot, the nearest you can have is a slave. Perhaps you can be a frien...
Because it's more fun. Parties, one-night-stands, rented rooms are dull in comparison. Children like to play with lego, but real bricks and mortar are...
No, that is not how it goes.I don't make an argument. I don't make assumptions. I see that the coffee has run out, and I make more coffee. It's not th...
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