lucian1900

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by lucian1900 5y ago
Or the white army and the kulaks were indeed to blame and people at the time understood that, while you swallowed propaganda blaming the Bolsheviks.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The number of workplaces isn’t constant. The simplest solution would be to reduce the working week. Another is to use collective funds to improve infrastructure and provide essential services. Planned economies do work, both historically an
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I’m glad the pillaging of my country is funny to you.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
That is due to imposing “shock therapy” and neoliberalism on the populations of the defeated socialist countries as punishment. It has nothing to do with what girls are encouraged to do.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Individualism emphasises negative rights, but positive rights are important too: life, health, air, food, etc. Why would some have no income if minimum wage was higher? The other possibility is that profits would be lower. Minimum wage has
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by lucian1900 5y ago
That’s not how they’re used. We immigrants get hired because companies get away with paying us less. There’s a shortage of people willing to work for low wages.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Unlike companies, humans have a right to exist. Working full time should be sufficient for survival, as a bare minimum.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
One enterprise automating increases its competitive advantage for a while, thus temporarily increasing its profits. However, over time, all enterprises will either automate or fail. Since profits are a portion of the value generated by labo
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Of course. Such automation wouldn’t be sustainable under capitalism because the rate of profit would drop even further, but it would be entirely possible under a socialist economy that produces for use instead of for profit.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
First order effects surely should not be ignored merely because second order effects exist. Starving because someone might be upset they are no longer a lord is illogical. You should read some history books, you appear to have instead accep
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by lucian1900 5y ago
When some starve and others hoard food, is property more important than hunger? The famines were environmental, for centuries. It was only collectivisation and industrialisation of agriculture that stopped the famines.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
We communists frequently argue against such programmes and instead for cheap and rational transportation for the working class, like trains, light rail and biofuel cars for rural areas. And kulaks had it coming, even my great-granddad. Dest
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Artists got paid to produce art, that was their day job. We all have family or friends who were artists before 89. The state arranged structures for artists to have jobs and even subsidised it strongly, so working people could afford to exp
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Which part of the US is socialist? There is none. If you mean the army, it’s not socialist. The workers don’t have democratic control over the means of production. It’s just a planned economy, plenty of those exist in dictatorships of the b
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by lucian1900 5y ago
It’s hard to not be bitter about it. Shelves are full, but people can afford less and less every year. And it was done at gunpoint by the western imperialist countries, with wars, coups, propaganda and sanctions. The author feels their past
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by lucian1900 5y ago
It’s the position of the government in exile in Taiwan, too. The one that’s the side of the civil war that lost and retreated.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The Epoch Times is run by the Falun Gong, a far right cult funded by the US.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The US funds Wahhabis all over the world, from Syria to Kosovo to Iraq to Xinjiang.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
I recommend you read Marx, who explains at length about the difference between use value and exchange value. Not all labour is useful, but all profit is generated by labour. The overall global rate of profit has been steadily falling since
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Saudi Arabia as the direct source of Wahhabis, with the US funding and arming them. Russia has been supporting the secular Syrian government.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
All value comes from labour or nature, which is trivially provable by comparing an enterprise's inputs and outputs. The outputs are most obvious in terms of the prices of sold commodities. The inputs are either capital (materials, etc.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
I think the cursor alternative works best with Go's syntax. it := GetAnIterator() for it.Next() { it.Value() } This still allows composition of different iterators, for building up lazy/incremental processing.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Accumulation of significant wealth happens through exploitation of the labour of others: paying them less than the value their labour produces. It's commonly called profit. Marxism happens to be correct as a science, even if its conclu
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Piece work is not new either. That’s all these apps do.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Production motivated by use value naturally tends towards durability and efficient use of resources, just like production motivated by exchange value (profit) naturally tends towards fragility and waste.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Or you can deploy your monolith several times, for each scaling profile. That’s not a reason to do micro services.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Famously, it even took many years for the compiler to be bootstrapped. That’s unusual in the extreme.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Racism isn't the same thing as colourism. Eastern Europeans and Muslims are both groups that get racialised in Western Europe.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
It would allow functions to be treated generically as returning error-able types. Since some functions even return 3 arguments where the third is the error, this isn't possible today. It would also allow defer-like syntax to be used on
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The zero value of a sum type can be the zero value of the first (or chosen) constituent. In this case, it could be Result<0>.

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