Are you unaware that small businesses and co-ops exist? Are the owners of a local maintenance company not "on the hook" for bankruptcy? What happened ...
Good question. Obviously I can't say for sure, but my hunch is that a lot would change, but for the better. But not necessarily in terms of what is pr...
No, you're not understanding. There is no "owner." That's exactly the point. The "owners" (if you want to call them that) are the workers themselves. ...
I am talking about all employees, yes. All employees run the company. How they choose to structure it, who they assign various responsibilities or lea...
Yes, but you might as well call it "X" or "God," then. If we don't understand what it means, then what's the point? We're not interested in replacing ...
Who said anything about "new, inexperienced employees"? The fact that your mind goes immediately to a scenario like this, where "workers control the b...
What are you talking about? It's not some "skin in the game," it's a business that the workers control outright. Businesses make profits and declare b...
So the first statement means: there's no way to have an economy with rent and interest without having rest and interest. Excellent insight. Again, apo...
Yes. The capitalist system is one based on a relationship between employer and employee. A socialist system would be one where the "employees" (the wo...
No kidding. Is this really your argument? That we wouldn't have the "same" economy? Because you didn't say the "same," you said the "economy we have" ...
Like I said, in your childish world of course not. I have no direct contact with Bezos, etc. So if we're going to absurdly restrict the definition of ...
That depends when it comes to the neoliberal part, at least according to polls. But there is still a good percentage, I imagine. But even if it is lik...
Even put in these deliberately ridiculous terms, yes he does. Not only by the impact he has on his workers, on the automobile industry, on the stock m...
There's overwhelming evidence for this. Excellent scholarship has been conducted. Tom Ferguson is one of my favorites. Worth checking out his "Golden ...
I think it's worth diverting the discussion a bit by discussing these rationalizations. A criminal trying to rationalize his crimes would be laughed a...
I think you've hit on something that simply has to be true once you've gained real power. Otherwise i's like being part of the board of directors and ...
This is exactly right. I'm not so sure about this. I don't think they're genetic mutants or that the quality of their brains are somehow different -- ...
I'm not too concerned with what Brett thinks given his line of discussion so far. The question is simple enough: Who are the so-called 1%? Misleading,...
That's fine. Assuming we know what self-organization is, it could plausibly account for abiogenesis and the concept of the "self," and even consciousn...
The state has the monopoly on violence. But they essentially own the state. To say they're subjected to the "same laws and penalties" as anyone else i...
If we think of the capitalist system as a game, then all of us are playing this game without knowing always knowing its structure and rules. We see it...
Rather than being sarcastic, you might have simply asked for the scholarship I was referring to in the preceding sentence, which you politely left out...
When discussing concentrations of wealth and power (.001%), there's very probably an interaction. Once you're part of the club, you've had to have int...
OK...I'm just not sure what "self-organization" means. I once thought this way, and of course in some respects (as I mentioned) it HAS to be true -- h...
I follow you up until the last couple words. How about simply an "evolving process"? Which is to say: something which is constantly changing. I'm not ...
Yes, I can. Yes, I do. Are you really not understanding this, or just arguing in an attempt to save face somehow? You made a bunch of statements witho...
Yes, that is fabricated if there's no evidence to support it. When it comes to this particular idea, there's indications that the trend is toward inhe...
It's not that they don't make sense -- but whether it's accurate or not, who knows? And why should I believe you? I'm looking for research and evidenc...
What exactly are you attributing to "human behavior"? The profit motive? Seems like the age-old argument that capitalism aligns better with human natu...
You're giving yourself away when you talk like this. So many tacit assumptions. Thanks for the recommendations. Thank you -- I'll check these out. Muc...
Yes but this is hardly research, Brett. Your list of positive or negative attributes doesn't tell us much, other than your own intuitions about the ma...
Where's the scholarship on this? I'd like to see some evidence. Because it's often claimed, and of course there are examples and thousands of anecdote...
Massive state intervention. Also, the idea of a "free market" is often invoked as an ideal of some kind, by Rand and Friedman and others, but it's pur...
True, but still interesting. As for your list -- I was thinking more in terms of ideologies and values, not necessarily the character attributes you m...
That's a good point. I wanted to add that the more accurate figure is a tenth of 1%, but thought it was too specific. So I'm using "1%" more to signif...
If by "people" you mean most laypeople, I don't know where you get that. Besides some vague notions of innateness ("nativist") tendencies and the LAD ...
Chomsky's approach is best described as "biolinguistics." He's interested in universal grammar, the innate (genetic) structure of language. This presu...
I realize I responded without really understanding the question. What would constitute deeming something as "surpassed" or "beyond" Nietzsche's ethica...
I think this interpretation is justified. Heidegger seems almost Aristotelian in some ways, although he almost never speaks of happiness or the "good"...
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