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3y ago
Congress delayed it for 2 years only for US employees.
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3y ago
Why would I be on the side of someone willing to go through all this trouble just to avoid paying American wages? Frankly, I would prefer you not start a business or do it elsewhere.
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3y ago
> nobody has a database of your preferences They absolutely do. They're merely not necessarily labelled as your preferences.
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3y ago
Claiming labor shortages in particular industries increases supply, which lowers wages.
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3y ago
Also people propagandized by anti-communists in capitalist nations, despite such people being so malinformed.
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3y ago
He was fond of capitalism because it was a prerequisite stage to socialism, and saying he considered capitalism "preferrable" to feudalism is far too simplistic. To barely even scratch the surface, capitalism would be preferred by
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3y ago
Yeah it's really sad. I just wish I could pin each plugin to a commit hash. It would be incredible and so easy to do.
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Progressives? Karl Marx 'owned the libs' more and better than any person in history. The degree to which he despised liberals really cannot be exaggerated. He despised liberalism even more than capitalism. In fact, he was quite fo
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3y ago
Fair enough! But Marx would be second.
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3y ago
All Obsidian plugins are just cloned github repos
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> Nation states need to re-evaluate what their purpose is. Re-evaluate all you'd like. America's purpose is to uphold capitalism at literally any cost.
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3y ago
Because who doesn't love running random github repos in a root process?
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3y ago
Marx is deservedly the most famous man in history.
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3y ago
Inherited wealth works wonders.
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3y ago
> semi-autonomous many-trailer trucks/convoys Prepare to have your mind blown: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train
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Trains are faster and easier than all of the above, and they have about a century more track record. This case was closed before it was even opened. Autonomous trucking has been an idiotic pursuit since long before it was ever pursued.
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3y ago
> — an economy that the professionals say is doing pretty well The so-called "professionals" are simply useless, and guess what...people are figuring that out too.
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3y ago
Nah, it's just one single team. No biggie.
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3y ago
The model is fine for explaining how some bakeries work; not now the overall economy works. I bet you could have figured this out on your own.
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3y ago
My favorite video game is Tetris, and I don't think it's a coincidence that it was produced by a society that placed consumer choice low on its list of priorities.
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3y ago
would love to hear more about the weird thing coming
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Your model of commerce is outdated by well over a century. You clearly don't understand how the stock market and financialized economies work. Furthermore, it's very naive to think capitalism could ever be sustainable with or with
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The only millenials who can afford to successfully pursue influential roles in content production are those with inherited wealth, which is a very small few. Talent is simply not very helpful these days, compared with class signifiers like
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3y ago
CGI is definitely not the problem. That is such a ridiculous claim.
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It's quite obvious to me that both are true, and that we should continue questioning the degree to which each of them are. Karl Marx celebrated capitalism for the same reasons you do, while at the same time recognizing the unlikelihood
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"The problem with capitalism is not that it creates problems for humans but that it exploits the problems that we would have regardless, drastically exacerbating the consequences." –Chris Cutrone
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> then what's democracy even good for? Historically it's amazingly good for rhetorically justifying war crimes and genocide by way of claiming moral highground.
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Nonsense. Privatization has resulted in the coverage, quality, and liability of services to plummet while the price of those services has skyrocketed.
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> And our sewer and water board is incompetent and corrupt Karl Marx showed us 150 years ago that a government under capitalism is a capitalist government .
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> Capitalism is not only defined by the accumulation of capital, but also by competition That's wrong. In reality, the mere theoretical potential for competition has always been more than enough to call it capitalism from any per
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