jswinghammer

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by jswinghammer 11y ago
Is there any need for a "plan"? Ultimately having a default option being college is obviously not working all that well for a lot of the people going down that route (dropout rates are high and finding a job in your field isn&#x27
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by jswinghammer 11y ago
The basic criticism of the labor theory is that it does not explain all things humans value. Adam Smith discussed this when noticing that water however useful it is for keeping humans alive, it's priced in accordance with its' use
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by jswinghammer 11y ago
I'll try to summarize why the LTV is so intrinsic to Marxist analysis. Marx's basic argument in Capital is that labor is what creates value in capital goods. The argument goes like this: if no labor is added to capital goods they
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by jswinghammer 11y ago
Even if you concede all those points (which I won't) the entire Marxist system relies on the labor theory of value which was smashed by Eugen Böhm von Bawerk in his book "Karl Marx and the Close of His System". No one has rea
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If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by jswinghammer 12y ago|1 comments
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by jswinghammer 12y ago
There isn't. If I spend any resources opposing something then I spent money however small doing so. If I drove my car to go vote against gay marriage then I spent resources directly and gave up alternative uses of my time to do so. I d
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by jswinghammer 12y ago
Today you learned that how? Are you unaware that there is a large portion of the population that think that gay marriage should not be recognized by the state?
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by jswinghammer 12y ago
I think the piece you are missing is that someone could reasonably apply the same logic you are to your politics. If I feel that taxation is theft or that bombing Pakistan with drones is grossly immoral I could ostracize anyone who holds th
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by jswinghammer 12y ago
Citation needed.
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by jswinghammer 12y ago
Given that such a donation would change the matter entirely your point isn't relevant. There is a massive number of people in this country that support his position (note: I'm not one of them). Calling them all bigots is a cheap w
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
No I don't agree. If the food you eat is making you sick, fat, and tired then it isn't doing much good for you. There's more than enough food without cheap corn. The problem is distribution and perverted incentives-not lack o
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I take a much more spiritual tact on the whole thing. I think giving is good for the giver first and then helpful to the people receiving it (particularly if they aren't just giving it away but investing it in something useful for othe
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
This is part of why I'd advocate for limited government. That way if everyone around you is acting foolish then the amount of damage they can do is fairly small.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I wouldn't set it a fixed amount to the giving but I would hope to encourage it. I make giving a routine part of my life and I would encourage it in my children too. Responsibly managing your money in my world means: spending it wisely
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
Responding to these points. 1. A chance but a good one? What promise do you have that bad families want to keep their children home anyway? Even making that choice suggests a lot of love for their children-it is a sacrifice after all. 2. Ho
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
So if Miley Cyrus doesn't believe in empirical evidence she's a threat to civilization? Damn. We're in trouble.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I meant to say that maybe having public policy that even remotely relates to these topics is a huge mistake.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I know a lot of successful people who don't know anything about the current state of evolutionary biology. I'm guessing you do too. It's totally superfluous to most occupations.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
So maybe you want to live in a society where public policy has nothing to do with the age of the universe. Let's do that. That sounds good.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
Given that public schools can barely teach reading, writing, or math I don't really worry too much about what they are teaching children about much else. It also does not matter what schools anywhere teach if your children do not atten
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I simply pay my kids for the work they do, they store it in a bank, and then I let them spend it. When they get older they will need to put aside some money for saving, some for spending, and some for giving away (their choice on the breakd
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
They keep the animals in unhealthy, unnatural conditions where they will get sick more often. The antibiotics are there to combat that and the side effects of eating corn (in the case of cows) make them very unhealthy and prone to getting s
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
Curiously enough I'd expect meat to get cheaper because its' production would have to get a lot more thoughtful to be profitable. Right now what we have is expensive in direct and indirect costs. The meat is of poor quality and wi
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I'm sure it tastes better and in small doses is probably fine. If the cow is eating enough corn to get sick then you have obviously made a huge mistake.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I realize all that but pulling the cord is the only sane thing to do. The food that gets produced is basically poison anyway so excluding it isn't the end of the world. I would be fine with increasing food stamps before continuing thes
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
They can only overcrowed because of corn feeding. Grass fed cows can't really be mass produced and factory farmed.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
The basic problem is that one intervention is seeking to fix another. Crop subsidies are the reason why these antibiotics are so widely used. Farmers are encouraged to feed animals food they aren't meant to eat which makes them so sick
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
Marx was concerned about wages being pushed down but even in his own lifetime it never really happened that way. It's something that seems desirable for the businessman if possible but something that they have no control over. The reas
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
Ideally I would abolish fractional reserve lending and the inflation that goes along with it. That inflation of the money supply has a medium and long term effect of raising prices. In a free market prices would drop thus your bad wage gets
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
I'm not misunderstanding the nature of how credit works. I'm well aware that reserves follow loans and not the other way around. That money creation cycle is what leads to the business cycle in my opinion (see Austrian business cy

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