They're already paying the inflated price. The inflated price is the current market price. But that money they pay now goes to someone else. If that s...
So either the workers sell the product at the inflated price to other workers and keep the profit for themselves, and all the other workers do the sam...
The people who do the work produce it, just as they do now; they just get to keep all of what they produce, instead of some parasites siphoning it off...
Only because money is concentrated in so few hands (those of the banks) to begin with. If the capital of the world was spread around more or less even...
Your general stance of seeming to think that the super-rich got there by meritocratic means would suggest a likelihood that you don’t believe that the...
For simplicity, just picture money as energy. Stuff only happens when energy flows from concentrated areas out to less concentrated areas. That increa...
A free market is one in which all trades are uncoerced. I consider certain kinds of contract, including those of rent and interest, to be coercive bec...
In my view introverts are the emotionally balanced people: those who neither need constant emotional support from others nor need others to vent their...
In an ideal world, no, but you’re missing the point: I’m against “government regulation” that you’re probably in favor of, government action that bene...
On Hempel's dilemma: there's really more of a trilemma there, which illustrates why one fork of the supposed dilemma is clearly superior, even though ...
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econophysics And especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoeconomics Also, from a future thread of mine: ...
I'm using investing as the clearest example, but generalizing the principle to risk in general. Someone with enough money can afford to invest in a bu...
I have become more comfortable with risk as I’ve built up a safety net and can afford to lose a bit before I start winning. (And I am looking for a ne...
It’s just a way of speaking in terms of statistics, exactly like distribution of ability. A uniform distribution means the quantity in question is equ...
I can’t think of any real-world examples of biological organisms doing that. That was just a hypothetical on my part. Glad to see you responding to fe...
If we had equal distribution of opportunity, we would expect a normal distribution of outcome, to match the normal distribution of abilities. But in t...
Causal closure isn’t so much a hypothesis as it is a definition: anything that has a physical effect is considered a physical thing. Since dark matter...
You can have a change in entropy without a change in PE, but you can’t have a change in PE without a change in entropy. Or more to the point here, if ...
Your counterexample is including the inside of the volume and its surrounding environment as the system under consideration. In that case, energy rema...
A hot volume of gas does actually weigh more than a cold one per E=mc^2. Mass is not just in elementary particles but in the interactions between them...
I agree that there is a question that is a personal emotional one, but it’s separate from the moral question; yet the possible answers to it follow th...
Okay good, so we agree on that front. Having a store of potential energy is the same thing as there being an energy gradient to exploit. For example i...
Are you differentiating “animate vs inanimate” from “living vs nonliving”? I took them to be synonyms for our purposes, in which case a definition of ...
Using what units? If you plot distance in lightyears and time in years, position over time at the speed of light draws a 45 degree slope. If you plot ...
Something like this is, I think, the main error underlying pretty much all philosophical error: that the only alternatives are either abject nihilism ...
Okay, that makes more sense of the von Neumann quote which otherwise didn’t seem connected to what you were saying, which I thought was about reproduc...
I thought that crystals were excluded from my definition because a crystal is not in itself a machine. Crystals are lower-entropy than other arrangeme...
My own definition of life is very similar to yours, so I think you're on the right track at least. My definition hinges on the physics concept of a "m...
There’s an old adage that a philosophy professor related to me once (if anyone knows the source of this please let me know it). It went something like...
So your argument is that panprotopsychism should not count as a kind of kind of panpsychism because panprotopsychism is actually a plausible view but ...
I meant the pattern recognition thing this time too. By "directly" I mean that music is composed of patterns that are not the naturally-occurring patt...
Adults are selfish too. And if anything I was happier being alone as a child than I have been as an adult. I could entertain myself for untold ages as...
Now that I have a moment to elaborate further: I see the primary axis as from abstract language to practical trades, and philosophy bridges those two ...
I think my theory can and does explain how music can invoke such strong emotional states, since it's directly pushing emotional buttons normally trigg...
I agree and didn't mean anything contrary to that. Rather, that moral principles (including those regarding freedom) apply to commerce as much as they...
The adult mindset is basically the child's mindset plus many years of scars and trauma. I was fortunate enough to be spared from a lot of that scarrin...
I see it rather as framing the foundations of commerce in social terms. Such that if you are doing nothing, you are doing nothing wrong, which is as i...
It is not just freedom-to that matters but freedom-from. This is the difference between liberty rights and claim rights: the former is having to oblig...
:up: Since you liked that short quip so much, I thought you might enjoy some more fleshed out versions too: ---- When it comes to tackling questions a...
It’s absolutely like that. We don’t need to appeal to God to compare our experiences and come to an unbiased consensus on what is real, nor do we need...
...which is only an argument at all if you think induction works already, which is why that makes the argument circular. I think a pragmatic argument ...
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