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The biggest puzzle we've got to solve right now is, how do we make people realize that Karl Marx was not the devil, but in fact, the most perceptive thinker of
by jtode 3y ago
The biggest puzzle we've got to solve right now is, how do we make people realize that Karl Marx was not the devil, but in fact, the most perceptive thinker of his time who put his finger right on the problem that bedevils us today?
People have this lazy idea of the word "capitalism," which they consider to be "our not-communist system".
Capitalism is the use and espousal of Capital.
Money is not Capital; money is a representation of labour done and value created.
Capital is when you take money and frankenstein it into acting like a magic vegetable/seed which you can plant in its current form and harvest in the same form and then plant some more of in that same form and then harvest more in the same form and it never changes, just magically grows through the mystical power of what Economists call "externalities".
Externalities are mysteries forces that we don't really understand, but which provide us with resources to use, and according to our model, no harm is ever done.
We need to start treating money like money. Capitalism needs to be snuffed out. Work, business, trade, all that can (indeed, must!) go on, but Capital must end.
- mrep 3y agoCan you explain how you envision that would work? Does the state own all capital to prevent people from accumulating capital, profiting off that and accumulating more?
- jtode 3y agoI don't have a plan, I'm just tired of Economics cultists pretending like they do. edit: but give everyone free internet and some server space as a starting point, and let them speak. EVERYONE. If anyone's government thinks they shouldn't have this, fight their government until they give it to them.
- jtode 3y agoI just had a thought: no profiting off a company that you don't work [forty] hours a week at. If you work eight hours a week, you get shares. No negotiations, labour is entitled to the value it creates. The trust fund scumbag who just uses money like a sponge to suck up more money is not. edit: I'm on drugs edit 2: In case my employer is trolling my history for signs of moral degeneracy, it's a holiday, piss off. edit 3: I was gonna come back and make the second 8 into a 40 also, but fuck that. 8 hours a week, you get shares. Send the trust fund babies to me, I'll explain the reality of work to them. I used to drive a dump truck, it's lots of fun.