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by ue_ 9y ago
Is this sarcasm, or a joke? It's not very funny, and your comments come across as misogynistic and particularly rude. You complain that "CS departments are making it easy for women and ridiculing them" and then go on to say t
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Although I don't think it's very wise to say we should try to reach for the ideal of the hunter-gatherer society, but it's undeniable that the combination of (i) overproduction and (ii) machinery being used for short-term pro
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> Property rights certainly requires central calculation and coersion, too. Property rights also have dubious origins, and the concept deserves to be questioned, along the lines of asking what right does one man have to appropriate a cer
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It's worth noting that Fresco wasn't a Marxist, and the Venus Project has tried to distance itself from the Marxists. It's also worth noting that a Communist society as Marx envisioned it takes great advantage of automation a
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When I was about 14 or 15 my first exposure to different schools of social organisation was Fresco, I found him through the Zeitgeist documentary (which I was foolish enough to believe in conspiracies with). I then looked at the Venus proje
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The ECP proposed by Mises isn't very strong, Paul Cockshott tries to deal with it in his work (attempting to show that it's not even a problem for central planning), and it largely ignores things like market socialism or decentral
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>We, as a society, want people to contribute the most that they can to the overall goals of humanity and capitalism acts as a vehicle for that. For the point of view that it's not a very good vehicle at all, it's worth reading
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I don't think that's a valid analogy; firstly, you yourself can involve yourself or be privy to the academic discussions about the future of Communist ideology, Slavoj Zizek for example writes about it, as do a few modern day Marx
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I've read about new libertarianism, and I don't find it convincing, especially the idea of property rights. I prefer the old libertarianism that was about people, not property.
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What about revolutionary Catalonia? Besides that, I think it's disingenuous to claim that it is a problem with the Communist idea; Marxism is a method of analysis, and that analysis can be applied to itself to find out what the problem
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Perhaps that's why my comments advocating far left ideas afe frequently downvoted, even in on topic threads. Too many businesspeople :)
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Although taking advantage of the power of politicians and the state is used to further the interest of capitalists in various occasions (the GP mentioned a few), why exactly is "crony capitalism" not capitalism? From a Marxian per
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>If you think people are wealthy and elite because they have got land, how do you explain how they got the land? By being given it by a state (which you have already said, in turn used force) or by forcefully taking it. It's primiti
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Thank you. As much as I would like to take your advice about undergraduate/graduate school, I'm not sure how I would fare as I am already an undergraduate, and my knowledge of Japanese isn't that great (it's been on the
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I've said it before, but it's notoriously hard to determine which comments will be downvoted and which will be upvoted. I have seen almost the exact same sentiment on HN before (edit: upvoted, floating near the top of the thread),
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Thank you for your advice, it's something I'm entertaining the possibility of doing, I haven't committed to anything yet, so I'll take a look at past experiences of other people. Actually getting in and applying seems to
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Thank you for the read, it was informative and a little scary (especially the obligations of the employee to his/her employer). This is rather tangentially related, but is there any information on how to get a job in Japan as someone f
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I don't think such meetings ought to aim at individuals, in fact this is what I wanted to avoid, rather it would be good to talk about processes in general, and to admit faults like that; I think this would be a much clearer way of mak
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> factories would orchestrate meetings in which people who ran afoul of party management were publicly humiliated by their colleagues and ostracized. I think this is a very wrong-headed way to go about self-criticism. It shouldn't b
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Probably nothing except more people using it, it doesn't have any (to my knowledge) unique features that Twitter and co. don't, so I don't think people are going to move there; rather I expect the same users of Twitter to go
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If anyone is interested in more of David Graeber, I can really recommend his well-known book "Debt: The First 5000 Years", which has become a staple in anarchist or Communist circles.
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That's largely a matter of opinion, and you must factor in what counts as a detriment or benefit, which varies with 4chan's goals. Arguably 4chan doesn't really have a goal, though some (particularly the alt-right type people
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But people like that material; is it against the rules? If not, what's the problem? You may think it's trashy, but apparently it's rather popular and doesn't seem to be trolling, at least not to me.
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I thought 4chan was the largest forum on the Internet, and in fact I remember when 4chan displayed the total amount of live content on their servers as being 100GB. Now it's more than 1300GB. 4chan thus seems to have become more popula
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Actually I'd say it has hurt it. Perceived excessive moderation on various boards is why people left to go to 8chan, where you can make and moderate your own boards, so long as all the content is legal. I'd rather have no modera
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Mastodon, which is decentralised, looks like it's gaining traction, and I find it very easy to use.
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>We already know how to deal with negative externalities such as pollution. Evaluate how much it costs society and tax it accordingly. I don't understand this, can it not be the case that the companies can 'afford' to keep
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Do not forget that even certain drawings (which appear to show fictional children) have been illegal since CAJA 2009 in England and Wales. There's a similar law in NI.
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>who still subscribes to Gould's discredited religion of blank-slatism and thus views Europeans and Africans as interchangeable. Can you explain what you mean by this, please? I'm rather unfamiliar with Gould, or what you'
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Marx's "Wage Labour and Capital" is also a rather short and easily readable work on the Marxian perspective of the labour market.

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