Well.. there's also the slave labor..
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Well.. there's also the slave labor..
oh the ironing...
Awesome post wufwugy-- I think this type of bridging the gap thinking needs to be employed far more.
And I'd like to ask, at the risk of opening a western front, what you think the social...
See, but that's just the thing, the Koch's brand of capitalism didn't save civilization. New Deal capitalism saved it. But welfarism has been maliciously or unintentionally conflated with...
Yeah, I'm really glad you keep pushing this idea that what people want-- the cause of their Scandinavian envy, is not socialism, but capitalism-welfarism. It's like an honest rebranding. It allows...
Wait, so now it's a zero sum game?
But realistically it was this or nothing. Of course a single payer option is better, but that wasn't a realistic end game in this world.
Blacks are at higher risk for a number of medical ailments. Should we be able to charge them more for healthcare?
How about the poor?
What if we found that statistically, Muslims cost more to...
Rilla, let's not conflate the defense of the right to price gouge with promoting price gouging.
Yeah, I remember reading an interesting article on how disaster relief can actually do harm. The way this works is that when there's shit going down in South Sudan that causes throngs of refugees to...
If capitalism is the economic system du jour, and it doesn't solve problems which were previously negative effects of past economic systems-- the fact that previous systems endured these problems...
You're still cherry picking.
Examples of negative effects of capitalism are brushed off, since government intervention is too entangled in the market-- but as soon as there is a positive...
You get the award for most egregious cherry picker itt.
I'm grunching a bit here, but I can't figure out how this can be anything but a serious, sarcasm free reference to David Icke.
Best Buy will lose to Amazon, because Best Buy at best will be a big box retail store chain, with a online presence. The online division has to clear everything through the established big box...
Battery based transport has been set back by decades because of battery patent hording by Big Oil and Big Auto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries
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Boris. Get out of your bubble. The world is going to pass you by.
Meh, if we want to play this game, the individual is an abstraction too.
Society is real unless we want to go down some lame post modernist track wherein nothing can really be known to be real. ...
Your lack of imagination has no bearing on the truth of falsehood of any statement. You know this.
"Everybody needs a job" is not a cornerstone of communism. Some megalomaniac decided it...
Holy walls of text, Batman!
I like that term, Coop resource-ism. This is pretty much what I had in my head. The interesting thing though, is that, while ownership still can be a real thing, it could be predicted that over...
We have Elon Musk because the public sector has dropped the ball. Or maybe it's your way.. but I'm not convinced this isn't a chicken or the egg setup..
An apparatus capable of facilitating a communal society is certainly conceivable with current technology. Hell, this is actually happening right now. Look into Share Economy or Shareconomy.
But...
Why do you think a more refined capitalism is towards a pure free market on the spectrum? This seems like a convenient assumption made by libertarians and the like: everything good that has happened...
post #83 is absolute rubbish.
N Korea is more extreme and it's blunders which it's despots' blunders, which it's people unfairly have to shoulder, are more extreme. Nonetheless the Soviets did...