Perhaps my standards are too low, but I find the forum culture to be perfectly adequate for practical purposes. Were this forum a program of a univers...
Most of the important points have been made. One might add North Sea oil -- applicable for Norway. Norway's sovereign wealth pension fund recently pas...
word games — Bitter Crank I get a little nervous when people start talking about Truth (big T). I certainly do not think that "there is no truth", nor...
We're digging the hole deeper but not getting anywhere closer to the truth, whatever that is. Actual, as opposed to imitation science? What is ideolog...
Alarm bells ring... I'll grant that philosophy begat science, but I will not grant that science is an ideology. I view much of the content of philosop...
You are always in the air (except when you are under water) and you can probably distinguish between various qualities of air: smelly air, dry air, co...
Many words have multiple meanings, depending on usage. That's one part of the problem. Another part is that many words do not have precise meanings--l...
What is extremely wet? How do you determine how wet you are? A fish never gets more wet unless it dies and disintegrates in the water -- then it would...
Will immersion in quantum mechanics be wet or dry? Does "wetness" refer only to liquid water? Suppose one has a bottle of 100% isopropyl alcohol. It l...
There are degrees of wetness, certainly. Plants, animals, and insects are always somewhat wet. Were they to be completely dehydrated, they would be de...
A fish does not (as far as I know) repel water, so when it is in the water it is wet. It is also wet when it comes out of the water to sun itself in t...
I could update the production example to Elon Musk's battery plant in Nevada, and talk about nickel ore rather than iron ore, lithium production rathe...
Another thing about Marxists... a socialist economy would require some kind of robust market operation to sort out supply and demand. The market might...
Whatever it is that Marxists do or don't understand, successful societies require the function of the entrepreneur -- which is, essentially, a creativ...
Owners (stockholders) might very well be sitting on their hands doing nothing. Mangers of the company, or owners who are managers, certainly labor. As...
Always a good question, brought up afresh many times. I think there are many issues for questing minds to work on in the real world that are more pres...
You are not grasping the concept. First, working for 90% - 95% of the population is not an option, it's a necessity. We must work in order to earn mon...
I would think wages, replacing equipment, buying materials, etc. would come out of gross revenue not profit. Profit is net revenue, isn't it, what is ...
For a capitalist economist, or a businessman, to acknowledge that exploitation is the heart of capitalism would peel away the delusions and illusions ...
So, how do we know there is such a thing as a thing in itself? Do you think that if we could see all the dings in siches, would they seem closer to wh...
Work is holy, except when it is alienated, perverted, debased, and made a suffering by capitalism. (It's in Marx--the short Manifesto or the short Val...
Hey, I came from the working class and I like 'art films' and classical music. Who attends serious films and listens to classical music? All sorts of ...
Child labor, scaled appropriately to the age, size, and strength of the child, may not be, in itself, an abridgment of the child's development, but wh...
Life, society, is one big quid pro quo, a grand "asinus fricat asinus (which auto correct just rendered "frigate sinus frigate") meaning, one jackass ...
The Catholic Chuch never argues for a literal interpretation of the Bible. — Akanthinos Where did Google buy it's vocational school certificate in The...
I'll drink to that. I might add, we might also end the "hands off" approach to regulation. Wall Street is composed of liars, thieves, knaves, and scou...
Keynes advocated government spending to counteract contraction in the economy. The economy is not, at this time, contracting. quote="Thorongil;131308"...
It's a very well constructed story, with numerous threats and reprieves to keep the story going. In reality our hero would have been dead martian meat...
The exploration of space didn't end with a few trips to the moon. NASA went on to amazing feats of engineering, design, instrumentation, and organizat...
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