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by ue_ 10y ago
>or are you comfortable with enslaving a portion of the population to ensure these needs are taken care of I'm not, which is why I'm not okay with Capitalism. Being forced to sell your labour in order to avoid poverty, destitut
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Are you proposing a Socialist system of the workers taking control of the means of production, or merely the idea that companies (i.e entities that exist to provide profit for a bourgeois owner) ought to be democratically controlled?
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The value of human life needn't come from being forced to sell one's labour, rather it can come from voluntarily usage of your own labour-time, not for the need to survive.
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by ue_ 10y ago
Anyone interested in organising along these principles might look at anarcho-primitivism or even anarchism. Recommended reading is Bakunin (What is Property?), Kropotkin (The Conquest of Bread) and pretty much anything by Emma Goldman.
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I'm learning Japanese and this is quite an interesting thing to hear. I am surprised by the number of things that do not quite have a simple analogue in English. It's a nice and compact phrase, though of course the danger with man
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The supermarket is obviously not cool with you shoplifting beacuse they have security guards that try to stop you from doing it, and they call the police when it happens.
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I don't see why it's my responsibility to see Youtube makes money. If they didn't want me to consume the content, they would have a model in which you can't view the content without subscribing for a fee. And yet Google
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>For being such a bunch of stingy capitalists, it's always surprising to see people defend businesses without viable models. Perhaps I don't do it personally because I'm a Communist.
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Canada also makes it illegal to import various pornographic materials depicting drawings of fictional characters, and certain sex dolls. An American had his laptop searched at ths Canadian border, and was detained, for example.
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What's happening in Venezuela is indeed saddening, and I say this as a Communist.
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I don't know about the person you're asking, but I'd rather not have a state prying into my business at all, in fact I'd lke it even less than if someone else did it. The idea that a person or group has the right to intr
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I started using two spaces because it was the default with C on emacs. I took a liking to it.
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>If people stopped buying scalped tickets, scalpers would be out of business. That's true, but it doesn't mean that the industry is ethical. >We're not talking about a product that's of life and death scale importa
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Australia does have some outrageous laws, so I suppose they want you not to be destroying the things that are governed by those laws on your phone. But I'd rather take the fine than have them find out, if I had such things.
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>You do realize the price is not set by the scalpers, but by the market? Yes. I never claimed it doesn't make economical sense. I was trying to make the point that people are engaging in behaviour I regard as abhorrent. The scalpers
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>but people have a visceral negative reaction to arbitrageurs since they didn't do anything to "earn" their profits I don't think there's anything wrong with getting money that you didn't earn (so long as yo
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>Even at 2-3x price, the price of the ticket is a relatively small portion of the total cost of attending. This is irrelevant. The fact is that it's 2-3x the cost because someone decided to be greedy and purchase lots of tickets tha
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The case is simply that the authors probably have a different view of licensing, and wish that their code remains free software even when integrated in other products. It probably wouldn't help that much in the case of something like G
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Thanks for the laugh, brightened my day :)
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In my ideal anarchistic society it is fine to do that. After all, it would be unjust to force you either way to do a particular thing with your product (labour time). But nobody would choose to do that, as they would know that their labour
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My point was that the distribution of the material, especially free of charge does not necessarily encourage further abuse, nor does its possession. I do not know, though I admit that I suspect that the abuse would be encouraged because it
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>how much money does this capitalist make if consumers do not find his products valuable and don't purchase them? None, but I have little sympathy or wish for the success of those who exploit others, especially if that profit derive
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> directly supports an industry of violence against children Not necessarily, and even so, can it be proven?
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>Tried that. See: every Communist regime, all of which failed :) This is an uncharitsble and pessimistic view of the development of socialist theory since the failure of such regimes. Arguably capitalism has a more rich history of failur
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>The world is gonna be a lot better off if that someone is compensated for doing so. I agree, so why must we be under a system which unfairly compensates those who do no work at all, while those who do the work are routinely exploited? T
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>The boss is a human who makes his money by meeting the needs of other humans. No, he makes his money by exploiting the labour of workers. Furthermore, this exploutation is not necessary for the boss to have a high standard of living, ne
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Not at all, I was merely curious as to what you meant. With regard to this problem, I had heard of it before, and I hope there is some kind of solution. I haven't read the paper yet, but I have a feeling it takes root in petty tribalis
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>Nordic socialism This is not socialism in any sense of the word. They have a social democracy.
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>You could live off the dole, or go be a hobo in the woods somewhere. These things only come about due to people realising that capitalism without some kind of governmental safety net is utterly barbaric. It is also impractical, from a p
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>I too would like it if others would meet my needs and I could disregard the needs of all other human beings. These are not "needs" that are failing to be delivered; the only need a worker serves is the boss' "need&qu

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