Brett

Where did they get the money to buy there homes outright?

If prices fall, for whatever reason, then the owners/workers lose their profit margin and therefor the capital they have for investment shrinks. They’...

In the world Pfhorrest is imagining I imagine there will be more than one factory producing steel. After all we wouldn’t want a monopoly would we? How...

Another point: would you lend your capital as a collective to another factory?

Imagine you own a steel factory. You import your iron ore from another factory. The price of iron ore starts climbing. What do you do? Suck it up and ...

If the price is set by the market, the consumer, then it’s going to be as low as they can get it. Competition will also determine the price. If the pr...

Saying it twice doesn’t make it true I’m afraid. It seems to me, and a few others, that there’s a big hole in your theory that you won’t address or ca...

I really can’t imagine their savings being enough to guy expensive equipment, unless they’re really loading up the price on their product to make big ...

Like Janus I think this is just too simplistic as an alternative. Assuming that factory X is owned by the workers and another factory, factory Y, is p...

My philosophy on philosophy is that it’s interesting to play with but don’t take it too seriously.

No, I mean the whole cancel culture. “ Canceling, today, is used like a massive, informal boycott when someone or something in the public eye offends ...

Watch out Janus, you’ll get cancelled.

Yes I’d agree with you there. The problem is that “ we systemically, as a culture, give some people that chance, and internalize those rationalization...

Bingo!

I’m not saying fun is not good for you, I’m saying I can’t find any way to see it as the meaning to life.

From who’s point of view?

For some people it’s very complicated, in so many ways.

Fine. Just don’t tell me it’s the meaning of life.

Once again boredom and depression are subjective. Not running around doing things is not necessarily boredom and depression.

First of all fun is a very subjective term. Secondly we can be happy and unhappy, maybe in equal measure. Does that mean that unhappiness is the meani...

You might be confusing satisfaction with meaning.

My posts have been made to try and demonstrate what these people might be about. I haven’t tried to say that they’re better than us, nor that they’re ...

Can that really be all to the meaning of life? We’re here just to have fun?

I can understand that someone might go to another country and take photos of unusual cultures or locations and then that person brings them home to sh...

Do you think you need a camera to do this?

I don’t see how doing photography is going to give you any leads into questions about life.

It’s seems to me that you think the meaning to life is just doing things. We study, we learn, we create new things. For what purpose?

If you go to take a photograph then you go to a place that already exists. Instead of sitting and being part of it you instead take some photos. Why?

One does not study photography like one studies philosophy. What do you learn from photography?

So that’s the meaning of life?

You’ll need to explain that.

What is everyone doing?

How?

How do you know that’s the meaning for life?

How does photography do it?

Photography can do this, eating food, breathing the air?

And what would it’s meaning be?

Such as?

Having reached some agreement about this and giving it more thought I still have a snag. Living the ascetic life, living the life of a Buddhist monk o...

So you have faith in human nature.

Well there is obviously an evolutionary path there, things blossom then they die away. However I don’t see any market, even a free market, happening w...

Imagine if there was a way out of this. What sort of people do you think might make it happen, maybe people who are conscientious, extroverts, innovat...

I’m not sure what you mean.

I think it’s possible that Capitalism has served its purpose. It pulled a lot of people out of poverty, but now it’s like some top heavy dinosaur that...

That’s interesting. Though it might be seen by some as making excuses for the behaviour of the wealthy.

Can you elaborate on that?

My problem with your post is that it’s about what happened, not who “they” are. I put up some comments about who I think these people are, that is, wh...

This all beginning to get a bit messy so I’ll need to go back over our posts.

I don’t know. Ask Xtrix, it was his question.

Care to back that up, or is “essentially” your get out of jail card?