Chilean activist destroys student debt papers worth $500m

[Sava]

You just ooze evil from every single thing you say. It's quite horrific.

[Ben Kenobi]

Why would I have a problem with voluntary transactions? It's the extortion through the use of force through income taxation that pisses me off.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

The value only exists in Loin's mind because he's a freak who will pay through the nose for that stuff. If anything, "value" is exploitation of personal obsession.

Yes, including the obsession people have with continuing to exist.

[Aeson]

I think this means my website that earns a low six-figure income is worth $10, because that's what I paid for it last year and there haven't been any updated bids since then ...

[molly bloom]

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.

Das Kapital was first published in 1867. Which makes whoever you imagine responsible for discrediting the labour theory of value '150 years' ago remarkably presecient- or swift.

God, you're such a know nothing @rsehole.

[Fake Boris]

also, from Human Right's Watch:

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/wr2014_web.pdf

What were you saying about Chavez and free expression?

1) HRW is a propaganda outlet.
2) Chavez was the target of an attempted armed coup. Tell me which government wouldn't suspend civil liberties under those circumstances.

[Fake Boris]

Arguing about what the world would look like if we didn't have scarcity seems like a massive waste of time.

Scarcity, lol

[Fake Boris]

It was copyrighted?

Yes you dumbass Marx must have been such a staunch advocate against fair remuneration.

[Fake Boris]

The idea behind anarchism is that holding power over others is wrong; the only valid force is yours. How this can be achieved in the context society is to be debated. The general idea though revolves around direct democracy, small communities, and decentralization.

[Sava]

1) HRW is a propaganda outlet.
2) Chavez was the target of an attempted armed coup. Tell me which government wouldn't suspend civil liberties under those circumstances.

1.

2. Yes. Venezuela was a utopian freedomland before those pesky coup'ers.

[DinoDoc]

Yes you dumbass Marx must have been such a staunch advocate against fair remuneration.

He was the father of Communism after all.

[regexcellent]

Das Kapital was first published in 1867. Which makes whoever you imagine responsible for discrediting the labour theory of value '150 years' ago remarkably presecient- or swift.

God, you're such a know nothing @rsehole.

the labor theory of value predates Marx. It was Adam Smith who first articulated it. Maybe if you'd googled a little harder you would have discovered that.

The amusing fact about Marxism is that there's nothing revolutionary about it at all. It wallows about in old worthless classical economic theories while everyone else upgraded to marginalism forever ago.

Scarcity, lol

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What does that graph have to do with anything? Are you trying to suggest that scarcity is not a real thing?

[AAAAAAAAH!]

The weird thing is Oncle started another thread about how the scarcity of resources is going to cause a collapse or something.

[regexcellent]

We've been 40 years away from running out of mercury for more than 40 years.

[Sava]

Repurposing and engineering significant quantities of the Earth's crust is something an advanced society would do. Policies just need to be sustainable. I'd rather we be heading in that direction. Survival

Don't worry. This whole "let's not plan for the future" version of capitalism is going to bite the dust quite quickly when(if) growth peaks.

If it doesn't peak, why stop the party?