ever1337

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by ever1337 1y ago
It's not that profit is one 'motivator' among others, it is the sole and ultimate condition for the survival of a business.
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by ever1337 1y ago
The users you replied to are pointing out a simple fact that the Israeli govt lied, it is only you who is moralizing about anything.
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by ever1337 1y ago
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement re
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by ever1337 1y ago
It is the Communists who are flexible and pragmatic. It is the Communists who can free the market. It is capitalists who shoot themselves in the foot over pride in 'principles' and 'ideals', a great irony when no country
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by ever1337 1y ago
The state that one-sidedly 'threw away' the baggage of communism was the USSR, and we all know how that went. Any China scholar could tell you that China was already implementing market reforms before Deng, and that their controll
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by ever1337 1y ago
The whole world is a cartel. Not because it wants to be - quite the opposite. But because it is a necessity.
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by ever1337 1y ago
I appreciate your frankness, and I am not an idealist who is proposing that the market 'should' be this way or that way for purely moral reasons. But the topic at hand is unionization. An aspect you neglect in this post is that an
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by ever1337 1y ago
They may have a moral sentiment and so too do employees - but the market is the ultimate condition for any moral sentiment to survive. You have no company, you no longer 'satisfy' customers. I am not referring to a moral idea, but
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by ever1337 1y ago
When I use the word maximization I am not referring to an abstract idea, I am referring to a negotiation with material necessity.
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by ever1337 1y ago
You are correct that the interest of a business owner is not to kill their firm.
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by ever1337 1y ago
The aim of the worker is not usually to kill the firm, I assumed that went without saying, as that would ultimately 'minimize' their wages. But the reason to work in a society where one needs money is to receive a wage, as maximal
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by ever1337 1y ago
It's not at all a matter of fairness. It is a matter of might.
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by ever1337 1y ago
The primary power of a union is the capacity to collectively bargain. It doesn't matter if you personally can't think of anything that you'd like to use that power for. If unionization is right for tech, others will. In the a
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by ever1337 1y ago
The workers will decide and they will dictate it to you as you have done unto them.
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by ever1337 1y ago
And yet you still turn a profit at the end of the day, i.e., money that's not going to 'overhead'. Let's not kid ourselves. Your interest as the owner is to maximize that profit and minimize expenses, and our interest as
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by ever1337 2y ago
This would be all well and good except that society is not actually constructed by neutral arbiters outside the world, as much as certain parties have their pretensions to that -- they are created by the interactions of interested parties.
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by ever1337 2y ago
Xi is not all powerful; no one person is. The state is powerful, not an individual. And all states are ultimately authoritarian. The only question is what form and to what end.
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by ever1337 2y ago
Criticize to what end? Overturning the entire order? Questioning the legitimacy of the state? That is not allowed. But the ideological diversity within the CPC is broader than US Democrats and Republicans combined. And if you actually had a
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by ever1337 2y ago
Bourgeois dictatorship vs leninist party state
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by ever1337 2y ago
This isn't the UK
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by ever1337 2y ago
> > If you believe the US will or should only act in its own interest, then its interest is to remain the only superpower. This is the error of non-Marxist 'realism'. The US is not a monolith with a single general interest.
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by ever1337 3y ago
so this model can only ever understand music which is classified, described, labelled, standardized. and recombine those. sounds boring, sounds like the opposite of what (I would like to believe) people listen to music for, outside of a cor
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by ever1337 3y ago
Seems like a system of 'open secrets' is the ideal for intelligence agencies. Within and between agencies it cuts down on red tape, but classification can still be selectively invoked to target whistleblowers, the public, etc. Wit
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by ever1337 3y ago
Virtually all LSD that is sold is pure. The synthesis is well known and it's so cheap there is virtually no incentive for adulterants. Obviously some level of regulation would be better. But it is not at all difficult to acquire such a
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by ever1337 3y ago
The problem is the freight railways own the track and amtrak doesn't. Legally amtrak has right of way over the freight trains but the freight companies routinely flout this and cause delays as the law is unenforced. Amtrak keeps track
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by ever1337 3y ago
I guess the question then is whether you think it's moral to murder a murderer
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by ever1337 3y ago
As a former fencer, this is what a lot of HEMA bouts look like to me
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by ever1337 3y ago
Anecdotally, ive personally lived in areas (california central valley, rural new england) where lyft and uber were virtually nonexistent and local taxi companies were the only option. ive had horrible experiences "reserving" rides
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by ever1337 3y ago
From the perspective of reducing actual deaths and other drug related harm, Portugal's policy is in fact working. You can read a rebuttal to that Wapo article here: https://www.econlib.org/was-portugals-experience-with-
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by ever1337 3y ago
Calling cocaine a 'hallucinatory drug'? Using concentrated fish powder to 'simulate' cocaine? This all being done to produce some segment for Shark Week? How come whenever drugs are a topic, journalistic standards drop t

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