Mikie

About corporate malfeasance? I guess it did— but I have a feeling we’re talking passed one another. I have many times on this thread and others. It’s ...

By the scientific and medical communities, and by the general public. I've yet to hear anything significant in this regard. I asked for what you were ...

Seems like a noble pursuit. If you're worth 10s of billions, which is an outrageous sum, you could invest 0.001% of it in a new company that specializ...

Well that's interesting. You're in a rare club indeed. I can only tell you what I would do if I had that money. But you've got to figure that out your...

Governments have paid them for their vaccines. Most vaccines being offered are free. So this can be misleading. But should governments be paying priva...

Apropos of the article I cited, yes. Just one more symptom (an important one) of a much wider problem of irrationality. The article talks about a pote...

Yes, we all know this is exactly what triggered you, essentially being one yourself. But don’t worry, it wasn’t directed at you. I also should have sa...

Thanks for the tip. Funny thing with me, though: I like to argue for my positions, not positions people think I hold. I also don’t debate truisms. If ...

It does seem like that’s what the system is based on, ultimately: the accumulation of wealth. More and more profits, more and more money. And why? Wha...

:yawn: I quoted myself. But believe what you wish. I’ve said repeatedly that they’re encouraging people to take the vaccine. But to you this means I’m...

But that has nothing whatsoever to do with accurately calling the introduction an introduction. Come on man. He was a pretty big deal even prior to pu...

Are you trying to say you’re a billionaire? Or is this just to make a point? Regarding the last part: it’s an interesting question. Like sex, money is...

I would have, but I don't agree with the statement about the introduction. It is not a mistake to refer to it as such. I hope you now concede that. Yo...

Well we agree on that at least. :ok:

Of course. But who doesn't see that? Is anyone out there thinking that because there's an introduction to the entire outline, that therefore every par...

Not at all. The title was given to the entirety of what was proposed, which you yourself cited. He just never got around to finishing it. Which is why...

Fair enough.

Being and Time is most certainly not complete. It consisted of 2 parts with 6 divisions. Only two divisions were written -- both of part 1. I don't kn...

Maybe...but that means enormous suffering that will be felt mostly -- as always -- by the poor and working classes. It means worldwide depression. The...

Short-term return on investment, yes. The stock price goes up. But this isn't the entire story, as you know. Stock buybacks were nearly non-existent f...

That's interesting. Can you provide a reference?

It's "on the basis of which entities are already understood." That's a crucial difference.

The introduction is indeed an introduction to Being and Time. The fact that the book wasn't completed doesn't negate this. Why? Because in the introdu...

You're right that "free markets" (notice the quotation marks), private property, capital, profits, etc., play a role in the system we're referring to,...

I wasn't advocating "policies," I was pointing out that irrationality abounds. Also, amoxicillin is safe and effective, yes. Should people start refus...

Worker co-ops do the same thing. Ownership and private property doesn’t define capitalism— that’s existed for millennia. Neither does making profits. ...

Not my position. Vaccines are safe and effective— there is a consensus on this. Find your own articles about it if you’re interested— literally any cr...

What is “capitalism”? I told you how I define it, and I think it fundamentally illegitimate. It’s not simply a matter of bad loopholes and loose regul...

I know— that’s why I said the United States does well.

So the United States is a communist party? Since it's a moral and systematic failure, it meets those criteria. China is ruled by a communist party. Do...

We're all well aware of this criticism. Heidegger in fact addresses it immediately and explicitly in Being and Time. For something so incomprehensible...

But always in the context of the question of the meaning of being, which Heidegger repeats over and over again. The explication of dasein, even in wha...

:rofl: Didn't realize the United States employed Marxist doctrines. So then we also agree that capitalism, as a system, is also fundamentally illegiti...

The very idea of ownership and private property is questionable, but my point was that the capitalist relationship of employer/employee is maintained ...

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This is excellent. Incredible how often something so plain is overlooked. It's a stupid game, one with no limits -- no cap. People can hoard and hoard...

There are many scenarios, especially in the cases of small businesses, that are run by families, friends, etc. There are sole proprietorships and part...

A good deal of them are making the decision because of media, what their doctors say, etc. So I would say they're making a correct decision, in that i...

I've already mentioned several sources which I (and apparently you) find credible. But I don't remember saying 20/30% is "problematic," I said that af...

You had mentioned the number of people vaccinated. These articles have nothing to say about that. They’re talking about vaccinated and unvaccinated de...

Because there’s no evidence whatever to believe these numbers are inaccurate. True, there could be a vast conspiracy — but that’s on you to show. Reas...

All good questions. The people who decided are generally the board of directors and the CEO. Sometimes the CEO is also the board chairman. Why do they...

I see no reason to distrust the figures from hospitals and medical establishments on this particular issue. The point about corporate media brainwashi...

Noam Chomsky Figured I'd throw this here.

:rofl: Which is why I think they should bring back child labor. The kids did it voluntarily, after all. We'll just ignore the conditions under which t...

You already give away your position with these statements. CEO pay has hit astronomical levels while real wages have stagnated -- for the last 40 year...

Why argue with someone who voted for Trump and whose "opinions" you can predict by simply watching whatever the Fox News hosts say? That's the only re...

"Technically" they're both public and private, but that's really just silliness. They're a government agency. Here I agree with Friedman. Smith and Ke...

You're right. So maybe a better thread is to discuss solutions, goals, programs, etc. I'll create one for that alone -- although it may exclude some p...

You're probably the better for it. Still, I'm definitely an apologist for (some) popular music.