Chilean activist destroys student debt papers worth $500m

[molly bloom]

If you manage to make it halfway through Das Kapital you deserve some sort of award, possibly just for sheer persistence.

So what, you turned the cover ? Read the back ?

Got as far as the first page ? The copyright information ?

[DinoDoc]

It was copyrighted?

[Kidlicious]

Just quit now molly.

[Hauldren Collider]

It was copyrighted?

[regexcellent]

Aaah, if that's how you feel it should be quaintly reassuring.

Like looking in a mirror for you.

Molly has progressed to the "no u" stage of petty internet insults. I guess it's progress. It's not like he has anywhere to go but up.

It was copyrighted?

Suddenly I have an urge to buy a copy just to find out

Das Kapital is a pretty ****ing hilariously bad. Every aspect of Marx's economic theory is based on the completely bull**** labor theory of value which has been discredited for about 150 years. Ultimately he responds to the broken window problem by saying that the only labor contributing to the value is "socially necessary" labor, which is just a fancy way of saying labor that there is demand for. So ultimately he winds up coming to the same marginal value conclusion as everyone else but pretends he didn't.

Marxists are even worse than creationists and the intelligent design people because at least they can hide behind solipsistic anti-realism since we can't actually prove God doesn't exist, but we can prove that the labor theory of value is a fat load of horse**** in five seconds flat.

[Sava]

There is no such thing as anarchism. If you think there is, you need to start thinking a little harder. What you get is a power vacuum. A power vacuum immediately filled by whoever has the biggest guns. Suddenly anarchy turns into tyranny in a fraction of a second, when you get warlord dictatorships filling up the void.

Anarchy is inherently not a stable system. In fact, it's so unstable it has never lasted for any appreciable period of time in any place ever. Think about it for a second. Anarchy is the initial state of things. If it could work and were stable, why are there governments at all?

You also just described laissez faire capitalism

[Hauldren Collider]

I actually did not.

[Sava]

not intentionally, no

but in function, economically? yes

because it is anarchy... and doesn't work for the exact reasons you just described

[Kidlicious]

Molly has progressed to the "no u" stage of petty internet insults. I guess it's progress. It's not like he has anywhere to go but up.



Suddenly I have an urge to buy a copy just to find out

Das Kapital is a pretty ****ing hilariously bad. Every aspect of Marx's economic theory is based on the completely bull**** labor theory of value which has been discredited for about 150 years. Ultimately he responds to the broken window problem by saying that the only labor contributing to the value is "socially necessary" labor, which is just a fancy way of saying labor that there is demand for. So ultimately he winds up coming to the same marginal value conclusion as everyone else but pretends he didn't.

Marxists are even worse than creationists and the intelligent design people because at least they can hide behind solipsistic anti-realism since we can't actually prove God doesn't exist, but we can prove that the labor theory of value is a fat load of horse**** in five seconds flat.

I guess you don't understand that if you catch a fish and eat it yourself that you created value.

[Sava]

No. You just caught a fish and ate it.

Breaking that act down into a product is absolutely psychopathic.

[Kidlicious]

No. You just caught a fish and ate it.

Breaking that act down into a product is absolutely psychopathic.

A fish is not a product?

[Sava]

Are you telling in the form of a question?

[Kidlicious]

No

[Sava]

k

[Kidlicious]

Trading does create value though.