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May 13, 2017 7:23 PM
#101
DateYutaka said: Yomiyuki said: omfgplzstop said: j0x said: I don't want "no government at all." Government has a role, but it should not be to interfere in business or redistribute wealth, both because it's ineffective and because it's immoral. The role of government is to provide basic human rights, such as the right to security and life, freedom of speech, religion, and other such things. An army is something we can't avoid using, and protects all of us together. The police enforces the laws intended to protect rights, and in that case as well, it is something we need for protection of rights and can't avoid using. omfgplzstop said: j0x said: omfgplzstop said: j0x said: Veronin said: Elements of socialism can work, but I also find that it is the dominant economic philosophy of people who don't actually understand anything about economics. Guess who gives you your salary? The top 1%. Now guess what happens to that salary when they have less money to give their employees. how can you explain the stagnant income growth for decades now especially on rich countries? the current wages are not adjusted to the current inflation and you are like saying taxing more the rich will make them unable to give better salaries, guess what a lot of tax cuts (trickle down economics) have been done in decades but the wage of workers did not improve at all and worse economic inequality is rising that you will hear news like only 8 people have the same wealth as the half of the world population, so Bernie Sanders is right the new wealth generated by the world economy is only accumulating at the top 1% and also good thing that extreme poverty is eradicated now but the middle class is shrinking especially on rich countries so there are actually more people entering poverty consumer spending is down for a lot of countries because salaries did not improve and when consumers spend less then capitalism and the world economy will become stagnant or even collapse That's more the result of crony capitalism than anything. In every country that's relatively laissez-faire we've seen plenty of growth (Hong Kong, Switzerland, etc.) and tax cuts that weren't accompanied by regulations benefitting bigger business resulted in more people getting jobs if it didn't result in higher wages. The middle class in the US is shrinking thanks to mostly welfare policies and regulations preventing small businesses from growing. well crony capitalism is inevitable imo since the point of capitalism is to maximize profit and that means being greedy and doing market monopoly so influencing/lobbying the government is the sure way to do it Bernie Sanders knows this and thats why he wants your country USA to stop lobbying if i recall right Bernie wants socialism. He wants much higher taxes to give people free stuff, tax the rich more so people are equal in the end regardless of the amount of work they put in. I explained why I find it immoral and why it hasn't worked for long in the past, with few exceptions that didn't get to collapse on themselves before outside intervention destroyed them. Welfare policies and culture are far more harmful to the middle class and the poor than capitalism. Even crony capitalism results in more of the citizens becoming part of the rich--it's not like EVERYONE who used to be middle class is becoming poor. Crony capitalism is not inevitable. If you cut regulations and culturally push the idea that the government has no right to do these things, it will likely be overwritten or protested against by voters. If the government doesn't have a lot of power, lobbying won't really help, since if it tries to do something people will pay attention to it. i think you are one of those libertarian conservative that wants either small government or no government at all and i think thats a scary thought since who will regulate/control capitalism or greedy businesses? even today you will hear news of child labor or borderline slave labor because of how cheap the salary is but with dangerous or long hours of work a true free market is just a fantasy at this point imho because you cannot separate capitalism from greed or more profit making, its like capitalism is natural selection that is survival of the fittest and only few become the winners or fittest Among the laws government enforces are ones that try to maintain the free market--laws preventing fraud, theft, coercion, intimidation, and other impeachments on freedom. For example, I did not mind the Net Neutrality law because it prevented impeachments on the freedom of the people who only had the option to rely on these providers for internet (without losing money, of course). It was akin to mailman cutting parts of a newspaper before delivering it to the people subscribed. I'm actually not entirely libertarian because I advocate for the voucher system. I believe that better education is the key to everything, and that we should pay for everyone's high school education because it will better the life of everyone if the entire society was better educated. This is the only aspect where I am not entirely libertarian, and even then, the vouchers are produced using the taxpayers' money; I simply believe that the tax allotted to them should be smaller for people who made poor decisions because their children and society would benefit from the opportunity to receive quality education. It is at least a choice of WHERE you want to use your voucher, as well as that most people would choose to get high school education, and the ones receiving it offer you a service themselves. A free market is not a fantasy. Desire for profit is not inherently bad; if anything, I'm willing to argue that it's inherently good based on the fact that it drives people to innovate and improve the general standard of living. Yes, the best few rise to the top, but it's not as though everyone at the bottom is devoured. When rich people grow their business, in order to maintain their position or even assuming they do nothing to expand their business, they use more money, which is then distributed among society based on who provides services that are good enough to collect it. Why do you care that Elon Musk makes billions if you aren't making cents? NekkoArc said: I think he was specifically trying to justify it by using the singularity theory where machines can do absolutely everything humans do much more efficiently, including innovation. The general scenario described is that transhumanism will result in an elite few who got there first, and the rest of humanity will become worthless, in which case specific government restrictions could maybe prevent this elite few from getting there before everyone else.j0x said: This is what you call a "Luddite fallacy". And the idea that advancement of technology will necessarily cause mass unemployment and eventually, break down of world order as we know it is nothing more than a slippery slope fear-mongering tactic no serious economists will buy at this point. This stance was famously criticized by Henry Hazlitt in the book "Economics in One Lesson" in 1940s and the origin of this fallacious doomsday scenario dates back to 18th Century.NekkoArc said: j0x said: NekkoArc said: This thread is a mess. What does "pure" socialism even mean? What's "pure" or "total" capitalism? Laisezz faire? Is Hong Kong a free market? Milton Friedman during his life considered Hong Kong to be free market. I don't think Anarcho-capitalists would consider Hong Kong, free market. Provide historical examples if you want meaningful discussion. there is no real socialism and communism done yet in history you can read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy Satania- said: inb4butreelsozializmhasntbeentriedyet What does post-scarcity economy have anything to do with socialism? well you can read the wikipedia link to find out more but the gist of it is that post scarcity economy envisions a future where automation/technology take over most human jobs and prices of goods is so cheap to the point of being free, capitalism with its main goal of maximizing profit while minimizing cost through cheap labor would go for automation like robots and artificial intelligence to create goods so there will be no more need for humans to work and when this is reach then expect socialism and its final form communism to take place try googling about the meme Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism too for more info the main reason socialism and communism is being advocated by more people now is because automation is starting to increase that either human jobs are getting more cheaper salary or human jobs are being replace by robots and artificial intelligence so capitalism will eventually collapse (since there is less and less consumers) if the economic system does not change base on the trend of automation You operate under the false premise that demand is fixed. When society develops, demand can shift and new values can arise. Was the entertainment industry or fashion industry as big back then and available to lower-class back then as much as it is now? Did anti-virus market exist back then and did streamers exist? New technology can create jobs and even create more demand! Maybe this demand is fundamentally no different than the old, but you see, you now have jobs that are contingent upon new technology. Also, the idea of technological development causing massive unemployment is empirically baseless. If what you're saying is true, there must be a fixed amount of unemployment that kept on rising almost irrespective of ups and downs of the economy that correlates in proportion to the development of technology. how do you feel about the voucher system, by the way? I'm still on the fence because I wouldn't want to force people, but the authoritarian deep inside tells me people don't know what's good for their children and everyone else. what people see wrong with this is that tha wun pahcent doesn't re-invest in the economy. i cant blame people for being hesitant at a free market when even with goverment we still have predatory businesses. but then its just a question of if you have more faith in a free market than giving goverment another chance at regulating corparations. and im too lazy to get into that right now. right when fior the most part he most porftable anything has not innvated in years i use video games like COD for an example over have thye inovate d there market in the last 5 years in game play mechanics or story telling over all not there but it make money hand over foot and as i have said veyr little to no innovation in gameplay mechanics or story telling not even any real technical innovations [ it engine has been the same for years ] so your wrong here i have no clue what you meant by this, or how it was relevant to that specific comment of mine, my asian brethren. |
Oh maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns or our nothing places But we're trash, you and me We're the litter on the breeze We're the lovers on the streets Just trash, me and you It's in everything we do It's in everything we do |
May 13, 2017 7:23 PM
#102
Takuan_Soho said: libertarianmind said: It's 2017, the answer is "Mixed Economy" But it is not "mixed". No matter how much the government screws with "distribution" it doesn't become socialism. Socialism is about production and the ownership of capital. No "mixed system" pretends to deal with the production side of the equation, thus they are not "socialist". hecne why there has never tulr been a socialist nation either [ minus myabe 1930 Catalonia] were the workers not the state ran the mean pf production most right winger fail tomunder the difference state owned and worker owned i say this as a libertarian leftist |
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine" When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong |
May 13, 2017 7:27 PM
#103
Yomiyuki said: DateYutaka said: Yomiyuki said: omfgplzstop said: j0x said: I don't want "no government at all." Government has a role, but it should not be to interfere in business or redistribute wealth, both because it's ineffective and because it's immoral. The role of government is to provide basic human rights, such as the right to security and life, freedom of speech, religion, and other such things. An army is something we can't avoid using, and protects all of us together. The police enforces the laws intended to protect rights, and in that case as well, it is something we need for protection of rights and can't avoid using. omfgplzstop said: j0x said: omfgplzstop said: j0x said: Veronin said: Elements of socialism can work, but I also find that it is the dominant economic philosophy of people who don't actually understand anything about economics. Guess who gives you your salary? The top 1%. Now guess what happens to that salary when they have less money to give their employees. how can you explain the stagnant income growth for decades now especially on rich countries? the current wages are not adjusted to the current inflation and you are like saying taxing more the rich will make them unable to give better salaries, guess what a lot of tax cuts (trickle down economics) have been done in decades but the wage of workers did not improve at all and worse economic inequality is rising that you will hear news like only 8 people have the same wealth as the half of the world population, so Bernie Sanders is right the new wealth generated by the world economy is only accumulating at the top 1% and also good thing that extreme poverty is eradicated now but the middle class is shrinking especially on rich countries so there are actually more people entering poverty consumer spending is down for a lot of countries because salaries did not improve and when consumers spend less then capitalism and the world economy will become stagnant or even collapse That's more the result of crony capitalism than anything. In every country that's relatively laissez-faire we've seen plenty of growth (Hong Kong, Switzerland, etc.) and tax cuts that weren't accompanied by regulations benefitting bigger business resulted in more people getting jobs if it didn't result in higher wages. The middle class in the US is shrinking thanks to mostly welfare policies and regulations preventing small businesses from growing. well crony capitalism is inevitable imo since the point of capitalism is to maximize profit and that means being greedy and doing market monopoly so influencing/lobbying the government is the sure way to do it Bernie Sanders knows this and thats why he wants your country USA to stop lobbying if i recall right Bernie wants socialism. He wants much higher taxes to give people free stuff, tax the rich more so people are equal in the end regardless of the amount of work they put in. I explained why I find it immoral and why it hasn't worked for long in the past, with few exceptions that didn't get to collapse on themselves before outside intervention destroyed them. Welfare policies and culture are far more harmful to the middle class and the poor than capitalism. Even crony capitalism results in more of the citizens becoming part of the rich--it's not like EVERYONE who used to be middle class is becoming poor. Crony capitalism is not inevitable. If you cut regulations and culturally push the idea that the government has no right to do these things, it will likely be overwritten or protested against by voters. If the government doesn't have a lot of power, lobbying won't really help, since if it tries to do something people will pay attention to it. i think you are one of those libertarian conservative that wants either small government or no government at all and i think thats a scary thought since who will regulate/control capitalism or greedy businesses? even today you will hear news of child labor or borderline slave labor because of how cheap the salary is but with dangerous or long hours of work a true free market is just a fantasy at this point imho because you cannot separate capitalism from greed or more profit making, its like capitalism is natural selection that is survival of the fittest and only few become the winners or fittest Among the laws government enforces are ones that try to maintain the free market--laws preventing fraud, theft, coercion, intimidation, and other impeachments on freedom. For example, I did not mind the Net Neutrality law because it prevented impeachments on the freedom of the people who only had the option to rely on these providers for internet (without losing money, of course). It was akin to mailman cutting parts of a newspaper before delivering it to the people subscribed. I'm actually not entirely libertarian because I advocate for the voucher system. I believe that better education is the key to everything, and that we should pay for everyone's high school education because it will better the life of everyone if the entire society was better educated. This is the only aspect where I am not entirely libertarian, and even then, the vouchers are produced using the taxpayers' money; I simply believe that the tax allotted to them should be smaller for people who made poor decisions because their children and society would benefit from the opportunity to receive quality education. It is at least a choice of WHERE you want to use your voucher, as well as that most people would choose to get high school education, and the ones receiving it offer you a service themselves. A free market is not a fantasy. Desire for profit is not inherently bad; if anything, I'm willing to argue that it's inherently good based on the fact that it drives people to innovate and improve the general standard of living. Yes, the best few rise to the top, but it's not as though everyone at the bottom is devoured. When rich people grow their business, in order to maintain their position or even assuming they do nothing to expand their business, they use more money, which is then distributed among society based on who provides services that are good enough to collect it. Why do you care that Elon Musk makes billions if you aren't making cents? NekkoArc said: I think he was specifically trying to justify it by using the singularity theory where machines can do absolutely everything humans do much more efficiently, including innovation. The general scenario described is that transhumanism will result in an elite few who got there first, and the rest of humanity will become worthless, in which case specific government restrictions could maybe prevent this elite few from getting there before everyone else.j0x said: This is what you call a "Luddite fallacy". And the idea that advancement of technology will necessarily cause mass unemployment and eventually, break down of world order as we know it is nothing more than a slippery slope fear-mongering tactic no serious economists will buy at this point. This stance was famously criticized by Henry Hazlitt in the book "Economics in One Lesson" in 1940s and the origin of this fallacious doomsday scenario dates back to 18th Century.NekkoArc said: j0x said: NekkoArc said: This thread is a mess. What does "pure" socialism even mean? What's "pure" or "total" capitalism? Laisezz faire? Is Hong Kong a free market? Milton Friedman during his life considered Hong Kong to be free market. I don't think Anarcho-capitalists would consider Hong Kong, free market. Provide historical examples if you want meaningful discussion. there is no real socialism and communism done yet in history you can read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy Satania- said: inb4butreelsozializmhasntbeentriedyet What does post-scarcity economy have anything to do with socialism? well you can read the wikipedia link to find out more but the gist of it is that post scarcity economy envisions a future where automation/technology take over most human jobs and prices of goods is so cheap to the point of being free, capitalism with its main goal of maximizing profit while minimizing cost through cheap labor would go for automation like robots and artificial intelligence to create goods so there will be no more need for humans to work and when this is reach then expect socialism and its final form communism to take place try googling about the meme Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism too for more info the main reason socialism and communism is being advocated by more people now is because automation is starting to increase that either human jobs are getting more cheaper salary or human jobs are being replace by robots and artificial intelligence so capitalism will eventually collapse (since there is less and less consumers) if the economic system does not change base on the trend of automation You operate under the false premise that demand is fixed. When society develops, demand can shift and new values can arise. Was the entertainment industry or fashion industry as big back then and available to lower-class back then as much as it is now? Did anti-virus market exist back then and did streamers exist? New technology can create jobs and even create more demand! Maybe this demand is fundamentally no different than the old, but you see, you now have jobs that are contingent upon new technology. Also, the idea of technological development causing massive unemployment is empirically baseless. If what you're saying is true, there must be a fixed amount of unemployment that kept on rising almost irrespective of ups and downs of the economy that correlates in proportion to the development of technology. how do you feel about the voucher system, by the way? I'm still on the fence because I wouldn't want to force people, but the authoritarian deep inside tells me people don't know what's good for their children and everyone else. what people see wrong with this is that tha wun pahcent doesn't re-invest in the economy. i cant blame people for being hesitant at a free market when even with goverment we still have predatory businesses. but then its just a question of if you have more faith in a free market than giving goverment another chance at regulating corparations. and im too lazy to get into that right now. right when fior the most part he most porftable anything has not innvated in years i use video games like COD for an example over have thye inovate d there market in the last 5 years in game play mechanics or story telling over all not there but it make money hand over foot and as i have said veyr little to no innovation in gameplay mechanics or story telling not even any real technical innovations [ it engine has been the same for years ] so your wrong here i have no clue what you meant by this, or how it was relevant to that specific comment of mine, my asian brethren. the most profitable art be it in video games or movies animation sand music are stagnant and not innovating so innovation dose drive profit in my view look at frozen for example that is the most surssfull aimtated movie of all time but lacked any innovation |
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine" When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong |
May 13, 2017 7:46 PM
#104
DateYutaka said: hecne why there has never tulr been a socialist nation either [ minus myabe 1930 Catalonia] were the workers not the state ran the mean pf production most right winger fail tomunder the difference state owned and worker owned i say this as a libertarian leftist As you pointed out there has never been "worker owned capital", nor will there ever be. That sort of is the point, and ultimate failing, of socialism. |
May 13, 2017 7:50 PM
#105
Takuan_Soho said: DateYutaka said: hecne why there has never tulr been a socialist nation either [ minus myabe 1930 Catalonia] were the workers not the state ran the mean pf production most right winger fail tomunder the difference state owned and worker owned i say this as a libertarian leftist As you pointed out there has never been "worker owned capital", nor will there ever be. That sort of is the point, and ultimate failing, of socialism. Catalonia in the 30''s was this cloest there has ever been [ untill the Stalinist betrayed us] there has never even been close to an acap nation |
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine" When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong |
May 13, 2017 7:54 PM
#106
DateYutaka said: Catalonia in the 30''s was this cloest there has ever been [ untill the Stalinist betrayed us] there has never even been close to an acap nation In other words, socialism may be able to work if not for communism.... Pardon me, for all the faults of Capitalism, at least it doesn't lead to stalinism.... |
May 13, 2017 7:54 PM
#107
Takuan_Soho said: DateYutaka said: hecne why there has never tulr been a socialist nation either [ minus myabe 1930 Catalonia] were the workers not the state ran the mean pf production most right winger fail tomunder the difference state owned and worker owned i say this as a libertarian leftist As you pointed out there has never been "worker owned capital", nor will there ever be. That sort of is the point, and ultimate failing, of socialism. No there has been several. In fact before capitalism and serfdoms all capital was owned by workers and money didn't exist as a goverment regulated currency. Takuan_Soho said: DateYutaka said: Catalonia in the 30''s was this cloest there has ever been [ untill the Stalinist betrayed us] there has never even been close to an acap nation In other words, socialism may be able to work if not for communism.... Pardon me, for all the faults of Capitalism, at least it doesn't lead to stalinism.... USSR was state-capitalism. |
May 13, 2017 8:01 PM
#108
Takuan_Soho said: DateYutaka said: Catalonia in the 30''s was this cloest there has ever been [ untill the Stalinist betrayed us] there has never even been close to an acap nation In other words, socialism may be able to work if not for communism.... Pardon me, for all the faults of Capitalism, at least it doesn't lead to stalinism.... but as that qoute says Capitalism does lead to Fascism Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power who said the quote above Mussolini said it and how much the interests of Corporate types are view ahend of the people needs [ key word needs] by bot ciltion aad trump in the us and may's lot on the uk is that not the slope to Fascism in my mind yes |
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine" When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong |
May 13, 2017 8:05 PM
#109
DateYutaka said: but as that qoute says Capitalism does lead to Fascism You mean "facism is capitalism in decay" ? |
May 13, 2017 8:16 PM
#110
traed said: No there has been several. In fact before capitalism and serfdoms all capital was owned by workers and money didn't exist as a goverment regulated currency. ................... traed said: pardon me, for all the faults of Capitalism, at least it doesn't lead to stalinism...USSR was state-capitalism. Agree, thank god for capitalism, it saved us from socialism (i.e. stalinism). And Alder aside, pretending that communism isn't communism... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBf66wAMpVQ |
May 13, 2017 9:04 PM
#111
Takuan_Soho said: traed said: No there has been several. In fact before capitalism and serfdoms all capital was owned by workers and money didn't exist as a goverment regulated currency. ................... traed said: pardon me, for all the faults of Capitalism, at least it doesn't lead to stalinism...USSR was state-capitalism. Agree, thank god for capitalism, it saved us from socialism (i.e. stalinism). And Alder aside, pretending that communism isn't communism... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBf66wAMpVQ rule of thumb: if its bad its capitalism |
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May 13, 2017 10:23 PM
#112
j0x said: I mean streamers, Youtubers, etc that are not REAL JARBZ that could easily fall under the radar of this sort of study.NekkoArc said: j0x said: found this too A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research aims to add some solid numbers to the debate, looking at the historical effects of robots on employment in the US. Economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo studied the US labor market between 1990 and 2007, looking at employment rates in different areas and industries while controlling for the influence of factors like increased imports from China and the offshoring of jobs. A paper looking at US employment from 1997 to 2007 suggests not all jobs lost to robots are replaced They found that each new robot added to the workforce meant the loss of between 3 and 5.6 jobs in the local commuting area. https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/28/15086576/robot-jobs-automation-unemployent-us-labor-market i got no idea, i did not read the linked paper there and what are this new emerging jobs you are saying? with how high the potential of artificial intelligence is it can replace any intellectual jobs too, plus you are forgetting that a lot of people just have average intellect so they cannot normally qualify for high skilled jobs right? You forget that new tech is coming up with micro-chips that you insert it in the brain to cure mental illnesses, increase concentration and could possibly make us 10x smarter. This will happen possibly before we have a "fully functioning" AI that basically behaves like us. I assume AI will be less needy for the sake of convenience in maintenance. If people are directing the market with demand, AI will not "lead us". Plus, how do we know that AI will be any different than what we have now? New tech is just humanity's extended list of tools to make life easier and I don't think humans will endow AI with the facility that could possibly disobey or do harm to society "willfully". That is a receipt for disaster. |
incisorr said: i love it when people start acting like some neutral almighty unbiased godly judge and they even believe their own shit, suddenly its not their thoughts and opinions anymore but the righteous justice god way, they are unbiased, non-subjective, they just are! To be honest, everyone is like this quite often, me included, but i don't forget myself and i still post a lot of personal shit which is what forums are made for , if they didn't want us to have our own style and posts it would be an article instead a forum thread. |
May 13, 2017 10:41 PM
#113
NekkoArc said: j0x said: I mean streamers, Youtubers, etc that are not REAL JARBZ that could easily fall under the radar of this sort of study.NekkoArc said: j0x said: Did the study include new emerging jobs I mentioned that do not fall under the category of "traditional/real jobs" and hence not included as a factor in the study? Even if the study included it, it's been centuries since and there's no grand socialist revolution due to ridiculous level of technology induced unemployment happening anytime soon.found this too A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research aims to add some solid numbers to the debate, looking at the historical effects of robots on employment in the US. Economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo studied the US labor market between 1990 and 2007, looking at employment rates in different areas and industries while controlling for the influence of factors like increased imports from China and the offshoring of jobs. A paper looking at US employment from 1997 to 2007 suggests not all jobs lost to robots are replaced They found that each new robot added to the workforce meant the loss of between 3 and 5.6 jobs in the local commuting area. https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/28/15086576/robot-jobs-automation-unemployent-us-labor-market i got no idea, i did not read the linked paper there and what are this new emerging jobs you are saying? with how high the potential of artificial intelligence is it can replace any intellectual jobs too, plus you are forgetting that a lot of people just have average intellect so they cannot normally qualify for high skilled jobs right? You forget that new tech is coming up with micro-chips that you insert it in the brain to cure mental illnesses, increase concentration and could possibly make us 10x smarter. This will happen possibly before we have a "fully functioning" AI that basically behaves like us. I assume AI will be less needy for the sake of convenience in maintenance. If people are directing the market with demand, AI will not "lead us". Plus, how do we know that AI will be any different than what we have now? New tech is just humanity's extended list of tools to make life easier and I don't think humans will endow AI with the facility that could possibly disobey or do harm to society "willfully". That is a receipt for disaster. i totally doubt that this kinds of jobs like streamers have will be the future jobs of humanity, heck i doubt it can produce enough taxes too, the competition is too tough for entertainment industry like youtube so only few can be a successful youtuber for example Bill Gates idea of taxing robots/automation is much sustainable idea to get money to fund popular socialist policies today like universal basic income and there are 2 kinds of artificial intelligence anyway, the widespread AI today are just Weak AI but the second one Strong AI (that resembles at least average human intelligence) is like the ultimate goal of computer science and technology and the tech industry is hard at work to create one thats why you will hear news like the Go sports champion was beaten by Google's AI or that IBM Watson is diagnosing diseases like a real doctor EDIT: the brain enhancement tech you said sounds good for the time being and you can just do that with gene/genome editing like CRISPR too (eugenics) but once technological singularity is reach then expect a super AI to do accelerated self-improvement or self-evolution |
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May 14, 2017 12:35 AM
#114
greenteaweasel said: It's an interesting juxtaposition to see movements for socialist leaders (like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders) gain traction while Venezuela, a government based on socialist ideology, has pretty much collapsed. Do you guys think socialism works or is it just a fallacy young people are consumed in? Fallacy. And many people are into it because they want to get free shit without thinking that those free shit need sacrifices from others. In the end it collapses because there is so much you can milk others. Socialism also brings a lot of government corruption and wasted money and resources. If government handles things then it has to put a government official at that post. For example many people say public health is awesome but government officials put to manage hospitals end up stealing from the budget they get with the result of the hospital to look miserable and perform bad while they get rich etc etc and apply that in every thing the government handles. A private company can't do that shit. It has to manage their funds properly or their business will go down and they will close shop. Government business can do corruption just fine because they don't give a shit since they don't work for that money but they get free money from the people they tax and see them as an endless cows they can milk. A good joke is the streets bumps to slow cars in the place am currently living. The government handles streets here and they decided to put this bumps to stop drivers from running near schools etc. But the officials handling that shit discovered they can put the cost of building a bump as $10000 while actually costing $5000 and even get payed by rich folks to put bumps close to their houses to stop cars from running infrond of their houses etc.. So they started putting bumps everywhere just to steal money and now you can be driving in a far away dark street in the mountain where there is nothing near and get a fucking bump in the night and almost get yourself killed because some official wanted to fill his pockets with tax payer money. This shit happens in so many things that it is sad just to think about. Also socialism means high taxes. You work your ass off and government takes a huge part of your salary because socialism and is wasting it left and right from welfare to corruption to bad management etc. The frustration for the people actually working hard is enormous. Everyone is taking advantage of private workers and businessmen to lynch off them. That results in more people going after government jobs and less businessmen and entrepreneurs being willing to risk doing things in that country and the cows the others milk getting less and less and the whole system collapsing like Venezuela is seeing right now. Get it to your fucking head people. IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK! Socialism should be kept to bare minimum, government must be small and handle as little shit as possible. Government should be busier with regulating things instead of actually running them and managing the money. |
MonadMay 14, 2017 3:07 AM
May 14, 2017 12:45 AM
#115
xrockxz89 said: Socialism might be a bit much, but I'm surely not opposed to social welfare. To me a little bit more of a communist spirit would do wonders for America ^_^ Not that we actually have to do anything more than have social welfare policies. Social welfare is the worst because it gives enough money to people to demotivate them from actually looking to stop sitting on their ass and do something. They get house and money every month and they think why the fuck should i work when i have it this good? Someone working for a mediocre salary and paying rent has less money than them so of course they are gonna sit on their ass. Is the same thing as going to a man hungry by a lake and giving him a big fish every day instead of teaching him how to fish and leave him by himself. we destroy the ladder and create incompetent people because if he is fine getting his fish from us and never learn how to fish then he can't feed himself and will always depend on us and he will never get a chance to get a good catch start selling fish and making more money and buying a net and getting even more and selling more and then buying a boat etc etc. that is the ladder of opportunity to get better and better and improve your life and contribute to others and we destroy it. The same goes with a lot of the aid we send to poor countries. We just send food that will just run out instead of helping them improve their ways and infrastructure. Bullshit. State handling things isn't capitalism by default. It is communism. |
MonadMay 14, 2017 3:01 AM
May 14, 2017 1:00 AM
#116
People will still be motivated. Why? So that they don't die. |
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May 14, 2017 1:05 AM
#117
@Monad you don't need money to be motivated. actually a lot of the greatest things out there come from people who do it because they enjoy it and not because they need money. do you think things like Fiction books would be good if the author did not enjoy writing? or anime if the person did not enjoy making anime? also as for where i stand quazia capitalist socialist country would be the better option to much of ether tends to end badly |
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May 14, 2017 1:14 AM
#118
communism envisioned by Marx is stateless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society so there is no real communism done yet since the technology (like full automation) for real socialism and communism is not there yet like i said previously the only reason socialism and the meme Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism is getting popular is because automation like robots and artificial intelligence are starting to increase world wide either by lowering workers salaries more or replacing human workers with automation technologies |
May 14, 2017 1:24 AM
#119
libertarianmind said: TheBrainintheJar said: Does capitalism work? I heard we never had 'real capitalism' either according to Libertarians. We haven't. And intelligent libertarians like Friedman or Hayek understand that it's not practical to have unfettered capitalism. Only radical ancaps and minarchists want that I actually heard the opposite, that they're quite in the extreme in supporting unfettered capitalism. Can you elaborate on their views? omfgplzstop said: @Pirating_Ninja Crony Capitalism isn't trickle-down economics. It is capitalism where the government interferes in the wrong ways and supports certain corporations over others, either directly or indirectly, as is the case in many areas of the US economy today. The way minimum wage works is this: You force people to pay a certain wage for an employer they need. Thus, to cover the higher cost, they have several options. They can employ the employee for less hours, which allows him to make more money in the same amount of hours if he manages to find another job to fill the gap, but otherwise ONLY hurts the business. They can fire the employee and replace him with a higher quality one, which is probably not the intended result. They can fire the employee and avoid replacing him altogether, because they need more money to function. Or they can raise the prices on their products/services, resulting in a higher cost of living for everyone else. I am opposed to forcing someone to work or to employ someone else, so if the guy gets fired he's screwed unless you are not opposed to that, in which case I'll point to Venezuela and Soviet Russia where they've already tried forcing people to work. No minimum wage allows experienceless employees to negotiate with employers in order to acquire experience and be able to demand a higher wage when applying for a job elsewhere or a raise in the same place, preventing the situation many people are now in where they're stuck looking for places that are willing to hire lower-quality workers. America was not at all capitalistic during the great depression, exactly the opposite. Hoover (which is funny since I always see people present him as a laissez-faire guy just because he was a republican) and FDR's incessant meddling served to elongate the depression, significantly. Recessions can be healed by the market itself--in fact, by June of 1930 the unemployment rate, which spiked to 9% in the stock market crash, was already back down to 6.3%. They aren't a failure of capitalism, just a sign that the market is faced with changes it needs to adjust to. Prior to the Depression it was indeed capitalist, and it had grown quite a bit during Coolidge's presidency, with which the vast majority of people were happy. The beginning of the Great Depression, nevertheless, had plenty to do with government. For example, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates, which resulted in the inflationary booms that led to the malinvestments leading to the stock market crash (which wasn't the only cause for the depression). The unemployment rate in 1931 was 16.3%, and fluctuated on the way to 17.2% by 1939. To claim that FDR's policies (large parts of which were extrapolated from Hoover's programs according to, among others, Rexford Tugwell, part of FDR's "Brain Trust") helped the economy is dishonest, or at least ignorant. At best they provided public relief while the artificial wages and inflation, as well as his absurd regulations (government agent decides how much people have to pay as wage and how much people have to be paid as wage, disagreements lead to industry shut down, bank reforms prohibiting expansion, etc.), kept the economy from improving. FDR's public programs were generally wasteful and counterproductive to the economy, and the Supreme Court even outlawed some of them (for example the NRA in 1935 and the AAA in 1936). Even his own treasury secretary said, "we are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work." He also talked about how after 8 years the unemployment rate is back to where they started except they have a debt now too. This all got so much better in the war because FDR's pre war policies were essentially war policies. The massive spending on army rather than artificial, wasteful and mandatory public programs solved the unemployment issue and gave people money that was NOT causing inflation. After the war, congress cut taxes. government spending fell from $85 billion in 1945 to 30 in 1946. Between 1944 and 1948, government spending was brought down from 44% of GNP to 8.9. I heard this without a source, but controls were also supposedly lifted, which makes enough sense for me to believe unsourced. I could probably find it if I looked hard enough. Regardless, some people argue that THIS is what ended the Depression rather than the war's consequences, though I believe it's a combination of both. The 50s and 60s were an economic success for multiple reasons. First, the fact that government did not impede the economy as much--the effective highest tax bracket, according to a calculation that includes capital gain, by Marc Linder, a law professor, was 49% in 1953. Further calculations show that it dropped further throughout the decade, reaching a mere 31% in 1960. Even the Internal Revenue Service did not estimate it as any higher than 70%, which are all much lower than the official 91% recorded and touted, which barely even applied to anyone. A 2009 study (http://www.nber.org/papers/w15369.pdf) calculated that the AVERAGE marginal tax rates, inclusive of federal and state income taxes as well as social security taxes, equaled 25% in the 50s, as opposed to the 2000s' 37%. It's possible that effective taxes were even lower. The Tax Notes magazine found that those earning more than $100,000 back then (which is much more now) paid less than 5% of the total taxes collected, which is significantly less than what the rich pay today. The aforementioned highly likely deregulation (I find it hard to believe that FDR's tens of thousands of new laws were still adhered to when the government was not in charge of everything, seeing as how most of the laws related to the government programs and intervention) is also relevant. The other element of the economic success is the enormous boon the war was to the people and the war research that followed, leading to developments in electronics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, atomic energy and other fields--the fact that other nations were recovering from their damages during WW2 allowed the US to function as a world research center, as well as for American factories to export goods that could not be created elsewhere. Sales of synthetics and electronics, for example, soared. The planes and ships of the war had direct peacetime applications, and the large amount of money accumulated by US citizens during the war was available to support the economy. There are other reasons the economy was booming after the war, but Roosevelt's policy was not part of it. You risked your life eating canned food? Capitalism allows you to spot an opportunity there and start producing food of higher quality, which you can then sell for higher prices. Which did happen, Pillsbury and Washburn for the first example that comes to mind. Working 12 hours for 2 meals may seem like a terrible thing to you, but it was way better than the alternatives in those times. They aren't any different from modern people in third world countries, "exploited" by capitalists who actually provide them something. There's also the fact that with decreases in prices and more innovation, wages steadily increased, and that the low standards of living then, which were not BECAUSE of capitalism but rather existed alongside it, were constantly improving until they became much better for everyone--America's economy grew by over 400% between 1860 and 1900. 440,000 patents were issued during the same period. Less hours of work eventually produced the same products, making life much easier for workers. Furthermore, the bottom class, of people from the slums who were not skilled at work, are the ones this applied to. The middle class, as in, majority of the population, was absolutely better off. You also don't mention how the monopolies were created by people who were not any richer than others when they started; Rockefeller and Carnegie, for example, crushed their competitors through clever deals and foresight, effectively earning their monopoly by their own virtues until later when they got state intervention to make it easier. Also regarding Carnegie, like many others, he received his education at a free school, gifted to his town by a philanthropist, the kind of which were much more common when the state wasn't taking money from them to supposedly give to the poor. Furthermore, monopolies are not invariably bad--the above examples both significantly reduced the prices of their products, Carnegie from $160 per ton to $17 in a quarter century and Rockefeller from ¢30 to ¢5.9. Both of them did so in their road to attaining their monopoly and kept improving, because in order to maintain their monopoly with no government intervention, they had to remain innovative and responsive to consumer demands, as well as obviously offer desirable products in affordable prices. Both of them, among many others, improved the standard of life for Americans. Monopolies are only bad if the ones holding them have complete control over the market (as in, invariably prevent competitors from ever trying to rise) AND their products are necessary for consumers (i.e. health, food). Out of all the 17 monopolies in the Gilded Ages, the only ones where prices didn't decrease (usually significantly) were the match industry and the castor oil industry, which I'm sure you'll agree were not exactly necessary--they were services improving your life, but their producers pitched them at a certain price. Without government intervention, complete control over a market requires very specific circumstances and is very rarely achieved. Even in the case of the incomplete monopolies of the Gilded Age, some were assisted through government intervention--Carnegie enjoyed steel tariffs for a time, for example. Patents and copyrights were used to suppress competition in some cases. Land was also often assigned on the basis of political pull rather than trade. All this also ignores the heavy impairment to freedom that the anti-homosexual, nonwhite and women laws were. Calling the Gilded Age an accurate representation of capitalism is wrong. Regardless, maintaining a government-free monopoly is not as easy as people like to claim--a monopoly is still a business. If it lowers prices too much in order to drive competition out, it loses money much faster than that competition. But even after it drives out the competition, as soon as it tries to raise prices to a point that gives a high enough profit margin, new competitors can enter to take advantage of that profit margin and it would be forced to lower prices again. The fact that consumers continuously receive the product at a cheaper than normal price means the demand goes down and it takes longer for the monopoly to recover. After the war, poverty rates steadily declined. But then the war on poverty happened (1965 or 1967, don't remember), and effective percentages of poverty, despite the fact that standards of living have improved enough to make it significantly harder to be considered poor, have INCREASED. The lower class expanded, because the welfare state allowed them to do so. The taxes on the middle class have slowed economic growth and hurt families. The increase in crime rates resulting from the decrease in responsibility also costed middle class people money. America has almost 200 welfare programs. It spends a trillion a year on these, excluding Medicare and Social Security. A quarter of that would get all of the poor to the poverty line. But it won't stop them from being poor. Gifts don't make you wealthy. The reason poor people stay poor is because they don't try to improve, are bad at managing money, or had a child out of wedlock or before having a secure job, 95% of the time. The reason they don't try to improve is obvious; when the state gives you money, when you believe that all of your issues are a result of victimization, you don't try to improve your situation in any way that isn't complaining. When you depend on welfare, you sometimes don't WANT to make enough to get out of it. The bit about managing money is also obvious. If you work but don't have money, you used it on something. Unless you had a child before getting a secure job or married, you probably didn't use it very well. No one wants to get rid of these programs because it means they lose votes--because they've now made the poor depend on them, or in most cases develop a mentality that doesn't see any alternative. I don't see too many differences between Sanders's version and actual socialism. I don't know which kind of socialism people are advocating for here, so I'll just attack possibilities: A high tax rate disincentivizes work. The same applies to having all your needs fulfilled. This is almost invariably what has led to dictatorships in communist countries trying to force people to work. Socialism depends on everyone willing to work for everyone's sake. When there's no other incentive than the betterment of the world, it collapses, because not everyone care about the betterment of the world. Often, when high taxes are utilized to (immorally) milk the rich, they eventually end up leaving. France is a recent example where they had to drop the taxes to stop the rich from leaving and taking away the money they provided for public goods. Consider this. Let's say we enacted socialism. Let's say I have a friend who can sing well. In order for him to sing, I'll do anything. But he doesn't want to, and he doesn't need anything. I can't offer him payment to sing for me. But me and a bunch of other people want to hear him sing. So we either force him to, try to pay him SOMEHOW (in which case socialism collapses) or have to contend with the fact that we'll never hear him sing. There simply aren't enough singers in the entire society willing to invest their time to replace him, because there's no incentive for them to do so. Meaning we're either stuck without singers or we try to force them. @traed, you said the incentive will be better than profit, but you have everything you described in Capitalism already--the only difference would be taking away the profit. Already, in capitalism, when trying to make a profit, you try to understand what will better the lives of yourself or others, so that people will enter a voluntary transaction with you. The desire for fame doesn't suddenly disappear when you try to make a profit. Another relevant aspect of socialism is that it isn't really compatible with multiculturalism. Nordic socialism hasn't collapsed yet (but it's on the way there, and this is why they're starting to elect more economically right governments) because they are very ethnically homogeneous, and have a united culture. There's no tribalism to ruin it like in the US. They also have the US paying for their defense budget and make their revenues using a free market system, which they then through taxation (approx. 60% income tax on the middle class) distribute to social net programs. Like I said though, they're moving to the right because their economic growth is incredibly slow and people want cheaper prices, as well as the fact that inevitably, despite their culture encouraging work (heard about this offhandedly so take it with a grain of salt, although obviously it makes sense), unemployment is on the rise and they're running out of money (in case it wasn't clear, these I didn't hear offhandedly). When there's no price mechanism, when everyone just provides the fixed amounts of a thing, unaware of the amount of demand for that thing, there are shortages. If everyone tries to increase their production capacity to avoid this, they will have to buy resources, and if the resources are not sold but given, they will run out of them and need to find/export new ones. In things like food, shortages are dangerous. Finally, and most importantly, it is immoral. The idea that I owe you something because you exist is immoral. The idea that because I make something more people want, I need to give away a larger amount of my money, that because I managed to amass a fortune I need to give away more of it is just wrong, and forcing it onto people will only lead to suffering. Personally, I believe the role government should play in the economy is preventing fraud and protecting what I consider to be rights by fighting theft, coercion or any other impeachments on freedom. Regarding welfare benefits, the only one I think the government (or preferably, municipalities and states) ought to provide is payment for education up to high school, because good education is the most important thing for a society and the economic state of the people. Even then, I think it should be done in a manner that tries to utilize the efficiency of the free market, such as the voucher system, and that regulations and restrictions should therefore not be imposed, which will improve the awful system that's currently in place and allow students to actually prosper. Likely, when schools need to compete and don't have someone dictating what they teach, they will offer programs that could replace a degree in the market. @_Ako_ Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system. In contrast, socialism has resulted in deaths of millions and collapse of societies (albeit not always due to its own issues, because outside forces interfered before it collapsed). I discussed the few governments that work socially above, but the bottom line is that the Nordic countries operate on a free market system trying to avoid government intervention and just use taxes to provide social programs, don't have cultural tribalism, have the US pay for their defense budget (big one), have low economic growth due to 60% taxes on middle class and such so prices take longer to decrease (also very high taxes on some luxuries), and some of them (Denmark for example) have started moving to the right because the welfare state increased unemployment and put them at risk of running out of money. @TheBrainInTheJar We haven't had complete capitalism in all aspects, because government keeps interfering where it shouldn't, but the free market mechanism has demonstrated its effectiveness countless times when the government stayed away (and even when it didn't, the theory worked). So the principle has been proven, but the system was not wholly or unobtrusively implemented. Usually government, often encouraged by lobbying big corporations, imposes regulations and turns the economic system into crony capitalism, which is gay. @j0x There's nothing wrong with capitalism collapsing when literally everything is automated. As has happened before, automation will make people lose jobs; this time it will be much more extreme, and likely they would not be able to recover. But because it would be so extreme this time, they would also not NEED to recover, and space communism would come about naturally, maybe costing people jobs for a few years, but eventually it will stabilize, albeit not into capitalism. I do wish it had more time left, but whatever. I considered advocating for socialism for a while because I wanted to see economic growth curbed and postpone the singularity, since losing my humanity or my appreciation for art is my biggest fear. When you say that capitalism 'worked' what do you mean? What's your opinions of some critics like Herbert Marcuse? |
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May 14, 2017 2:02 AM
#120
Yes, it does. No job should be worth more than another. We all must work together, and it is important that people receive equal acknowledgement for all their hard work. However, we are not ready for socialism. Some day. |
May 14, 2017 3:20 AM
#121
hazerddex said: @Monad you don't need money to be motivated. actually a lot of the greatest things out there come from people who do it because they enjoy it and not because they need money. do you think things like Fiction books would be good if the author did not enjoy writing? or anime if the person did not enjoy making anime? Yes some people want to do great things but the people satisfied with welfare really don't. They need to be pushed or else they will leech forever. Not all people are the same. Exceptional people are minority but have large contributions. Most are just ether working to get by or trying to leech from others. If people don't need to be pushed why are so many of them sitting on their ass and find so many excuses when they could do a lot more? the Explanation is simple. Because that is the kind of people they are. And unless someone stops giving them free shit and encourage their shitty behavior they will never stop. The people that are really in a bad condition and unable to do things to improve their life are the minority of welfare recipients and ironically they don't even get the money those fake asses get because they don't have the ability to get up and go and yell in the ears of government workers and cry left and right to get more money because they are really sick and can't do that shit and probably have some pride too and feel shame of begging around since they are in the condition they are because they really have a problem and not because that is their character. All the fucking shit i talk about is shit i have seen with my own eyes by being out and working and living in different countries. I know what the fuck am talking about. i used to be like you people but when you are outside working and seeing the people around and dealing with government etc etc then you see how things actually work. You people are young still in colleges and schools and watching anime in your houses. You haven't seen enough shit yet that is why you ignore reality. Reality is that socialism and welfare only sound good. When reality comes to the picture things never turn out so good at all. |
MonadMay 14, 2017 4:02 AM
May 14, 2017 3:25 AM
#122
Humans aren't intelligent or morally upstanding enough for socialism to work. |
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May 14, 2017 8:02 AM
#123
Socialism can't work as long as the human has egoism. But here in Germany we are teached that Germany itself is a semisocialist state. Because everyone get's et least the existence minimum from the government. And yeah, many people are abusing it, so what? At least we have nearly no homeless people, and who is homeless in Germany want's it. Every homeless can go to German officials anytime and demand the socalled "Hartz 4" or "Sozialhilfe", wich are basically social security systems. They don't have to work for it and get a small flat plus some money monthly for free. Even if you get too few money from work you can demand Hartz4. So yeah, it works if it's established partly, but socialism like in the USSR with "Everyone gets the same" and 5-year-economy-plans can't work with humans. Too much egoists. |
May 14, 2017 10:12 AM
#124
omfgplzstop said: _Ako_ said: omfgplzstop said: @_Ako_ Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system. In contrast, socialism has resulted in deaths of millions and collapse of societies (albeit not always due to its own issues, because outside forces interfered before it collapsed). I discussed the few governments that work socially above, but the bottom line is that the Nordic countries operate on a free market system trying to avoid government intervention and just use taxes to provide social programs, don't have cultural tribalism, have the US pay for their defense budget (big one), have low economic growth due to 60% taxes on middle class and such so prices take longer to decrease (also very high taxes on some luxuries), and some of them (Denmark for example) have started moving to the right because the welfare state increased unemployment and put them at risk of running out of money. You know what... Actually, you've just said what Youmiko-user or something said to me... :/ I still love the idea that government just have to sit and sip tea while business owners do their job. Capitalism works because of that; yeah, we love the business owners... Business owners are the ones providing services and making your life easier. They're also the ones providing jobs to people who need money to survive. If the government doesn't interfere, which almost always results in either everyone suffering or the rich playing around the government regulations because they can afford it, competition allows businesses, workers and standards of living to prosper. And that's also what the Yumiko user or something said to me... :/ So... what's the differences of you saying that and him saying that? |
May 14, 2017 10:18 AM
#125
greenteaweasel said: It's an interesting juxtaposition to see movements for socialist leaders (like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders) gain traction while Venezuela, a government based on socialist ideology, has pretty much collapsed. Do you guys think socialism works or is it just a fallacy young people are consumed in? The economic collapse of Venezuela is far more complicated than simply being a result of socialist economic policies. You are ignoring factors like the collapse in value of its main export (oil) and economic sanctions placed on it by the United States. Yomiyuki said: the u.s is not a purely capitalist country. this is just not true. a capitalist country closer to a free market would be much more successful than outright socialism countries. without the povery too. Please identify a "more" capitalist country. |
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May 14, 2017 10:20 AM
#126
JustaBrer said: Yes, it does. No job should be worth more than another. We all must work together, and it is important that people receive equal acknowledgement for all their hard work. However, we are not ready for socialism. Some day. Amen! I just hope that day will come soon. |
May 14, 2017 11:29 AM
#127
daky-kun said: JustaBrer said: Yes, it does. No job should be worth more than another. We all must work together, and it is important that people receive equal acknowledgement for all their hard work. However, we are not ready for socialism. Some day. Amen! I just hope that day will come soon. Seriously are you people that diluted? No job is worth more than another? I recently had an operation. An amazing surgeon fix my problem amazingly well and saved me of a lot harder life without even leaving a sign of the problem. The guy was amazing and saves so many people. Are you telling me his work isn't worth more than the guy cutting movie tickets? Just get out of here. |
May 14, 2017 1:09 PM
#128
no, but I dont think thats what Sanders wants. He just wants us closer to a democracy than an oligarchy, or whatever ruled by money is called. Being closer to a democracy appears to be socialism to some people though. But I do think capitalism works in the long run. The problem is selfish individuals that rip off consumers/selling them junk they do not need. But this isnt really capitalisms fault, it is the individual's fault. So we should just be more wary of white collar crime. But anti white collar crime =/= anti capitalism, although they usually homogenize for some reason. Also consumers should be held accountable too. I think they complain about rich CEOs yet they keep spending money on stuff they dont need and supporting the CEOs. Why people spend so much money is a psychological issue though, I dont really know the answer to why. |
metem_psychosisMay 14, 2017 1:23 PM
May 14, 2017 1:28 PM
#129
hypocrite_tenma said: no, but I dont think thats what Sanders wants. He just wants us closer to a democracy than an oligarchy, or whatever ruled by money is called. Being closer to a democracy appears to be socialism to some people though. But I do think capitalism works in the long run. The problem is selfish individuals that rip off consumers/selling them junk they do not need. But this isnt really capitalisms fault, it is the individual's fault. So we should just be more wary of white collar crime. But anti white collar crime =/= anti capitalism, although they usually homogenize for some reason. Also consumers should be held accountable too. I think they complain about rich CEOs yet they keep spending money on stuff they dont need and supporting the CEOs. Why people spend so much money is a psychological issue though, I dont really know the answer to why. the main goal of capitalism is maximizing profit while minimizing cost though so that is why its prone on making people greedy and doing cheap labor, Bernie Sanders knows that the rich gets more richer while the poor gets more poorer currently, you will hear news that only 8 rich people holds the same wealth as half of the world population and that shows that the new wealth are mostly going to the top 1% only while your middle class there in USA for example continue to decrease so there are actually more people entering poverty |
May 14, 2017 4:12 PM
#131
AnnoKano said: greenteaweasel said: It's an interesting juxtaposition to see movements for socialist leaders (like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders) gain traction while Venezuela, a government based on socialist ideology, has pretty much collapsed. Do you guys think socialism works or is it just a fallacy young people are consumed in? The economic collapse of Venezuela is far more complicated than simply being a result of socialist economic policies. You are ignoring factors like the collapse in value of its main export (oil) and economic sanctions placed on it by the United States. Yomiyuki said: the u.s is not a purely capitalist country. this is just not true. a capitalist country closer to a free market would be much more successful than outright socialism countries. without the povery too. Please identify a "more" capitalist country. thats not what i meant. i meant its not u.s. capitalism that people support or mean when they say they prefer capitalism or communism. idk how people dont notice that its full on crony capitalism. |
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May 14, 2017 7:52 PM
#132
Im from Venezuela and the main reason we are kinda fucked up is because of our Retarded President (Used to be a bus driver, No education and its funny to heard the stupid words he uses when giving a speech etc.), before our current president, we had Hugo Chavez which was a socialist as well but the country was running better than it is atm, but at the end, if Chavez didn't die, the socialism was going to fuck the country up at some point in the future. The government robs the money from the country and doesn't uses it the way its supposed to be used and the president is a Muppet that lets our country die with its people, many people are starving here, the salaries are not enough to be used in groceries the entire month, you cant buy anything good besides food to survive and you cant buy anime unless youre rich here. edit: sorry for my bad english. |
IcyGlacierMay 14, 2017 7:58 PM
May 14, 2017 8:05 PM
#133
IcyGlacier said: Im from Venezuela and the main reason we are kinda fucked up is because of our Retarded President (Used to be a bus driver, No education and its funny to heard the stupid words he uses when giving a speech etc.), before our current president, we had Hugo Chavez which was a socialist as well but the country was running better than it is atm, but at the end, if Chavez didn't die, the socialism was going to fuck the country up at some point in the future. The government robs the money from the country and doesn't uses it the way its supposed to be used and the president is a Muppet that lets our country die with its people, many people are starving here, the salaries are not enough to be used in groceries the entire month, you cant buy anything good besides food to survive and you cant buy anime unless youre rich here. edit: sorry for my bad english. there are news i read that the drop in oil prices made your economy weak, so its not really socialism that is at fault but a poor planning government like the news said if only your government invested on other sources of economic income besides oil then your economy will still be fine, so its not good to rely on only 1 economic resource |
May 14, 2017 8:27 PM
#134
It would probably not. Sure you can enjoy your work if you like it even if you don't get something like money, but what if unfortunately, say, 70% of people just happens to enjoy something like taste testing and nothing else for work? What if only 1% like working in food production? And less than 0.001% like to work in garbage collection? Now you might say "but wait! perhaps now it wouldn't work, but what about when automation reaches a certain stage where it may work out?" that might be so, but there are still some dangers like we could easily become a Dystopia similar to the one in "Brave New World" and as we have witnessed in recent years, the more mass production we get into to rise the quantity, the more the quality falls. For example a toaster from 20 years ago that has been in constant use since then would often keep working longer from this point on than even a newly made toaster you buy today. The decrease of quality in products would probably not get much better, escpacially if it's to sustain the whole of at least the western civilisation with automated food-production, as well essential limited-lifetime electronic devices. Then there is also the "human factor". As everyone should know by now pretty much every system sounds quite perfect on paper and as long as it's untested for whatever reason, you can just insist on the delusion that it will work EXACTLY as the theory states. But even in an "automated socialistic society" someone has to "regulate" things, be it establishing and maintaining the limits of what people could do and what not (e.g. legislators and law enforcement/police) as well deal with outside threats assuming the automated socialistic society hasn't completely taken over the world yet (military) and most importantly it needs someone who allocates/manages the robots/machines. In the end you have to amass power somewhere (government, even if only locally), or less risk anarchy, or take the risk of giving the control to the robots, which would require pretty much unlimited trust to whoever built/programmed those robots, both in terms of skill as well as trustworthyness, which would again indicate higher risk than before. Compared to that with our cronysm-infested capitalism it seems that at least relevant powers somewhat neutralize it each other enough for there to be a sufficient level of stability. Even though it sounds like the most ridiculous and unscientific out of everything about Capitalism in itself, the so-called "invisible hand of Capitalism" still seems to be the most important aspect of it and what gives it the edge over systems like Socialism. |
May 14, 2017 8:32 PM
#135
Yomiyuki said: thats not what i meant. i meant its not u.s. capitalism that people support or mean when they say they prefer capitalism or communism. idk how people dont notice that its full on crony capitalism. Yeah, they like doing that. Nobody voted for Trump because they wanted "more of the same". When they say "Trump could shoot someone and his supporters wouldn't care". They might seriously not understand what that really means. They (voters) are perfectly cool with it either being "fixed" or "destroyed". Let them eat cake! |
May 14, 2017 8:39 PM
#136
Grey-Zone said: It would probably not. Sure you can enjoy your work if you like it even if you don't get something like money, but what if unfortunately, say, 70% of people just happens to enjoy something like taste testing and nothing else for work? What if only 1% like working in food production? And less than 0.001% like to work in garbage collection? Now you might say "but wait! perhaps now it wouldn't work, but what about when automation reaches a certain stage where it may work out?" that might be so, but there are still some dangers like we could easily become a Dystopia similar to the one in "Brave New World" and as we have witnessed in recent years, the more mass production we get into to rise the quantity, the more the quality falls. For example a toaster from 20 years ago that has been in constant use since then would often keep working longer from this point on than even a newly made toaster you buy today. The decrease of quality in products would probably not get much better, escpacially if it's to sustain the whole of at least the western civilisation with automated food-production, as well essential limited-lifetime electronic devices. Then there is also the "human factor". As everyone should know by now pretty much every system sounds quite perfect on paper and as long as it's untested for whatever reason, you can just insist on the delusion that it will work EXACTLY as the theory states. But even in an "automated socialistic society" someone has to "regulate" things, be it establishing and maintaining the limits of what people could do and what not (e.g. legislators and law enforcement/police) as well deal with outside threats assuming the automated socialistic society hasn't completely taken over the world yet (military) and most importantly it needs someone who allocates/manages the robots/machines. In the end you have to amass power somewhere (government, even if only locally), or less risk anarchy, or take the risk of giving the control to the robots, which would require pretty much unlimited trust to whoever built/programmed those robots, both in terms of skill as well as trustworthyness, which would again indicate higher risk than before. Compared to that with our cronysm-infested capitalism it seems that at least relevant powers somewhat neutralize it each other enough for there to be a sufficient level of stability. Even though it sounds like the most ridiculous and unscientific out of everything about Capitalism in itself, the so-called "invisible hand of Capitalism" still seems to be the most important aspect of it and what gives it the edge over systems like Socialism. yes there is still a state or government on socialism but for communism its stateless thats why the meme Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism is popular and yes there is a danger of giving too much power on a government but from what i understand in socialism the means of production is publicly owned (instead with capitalism where the means of production are privately owned) so legal stuff like patents are gone in socialism so all people have access on building automation technologies for their needs so in a way the government in socialism takes a lesser role on peoples lives capitalism will eventually collapse anyway just because of its nature of maximizing profit while minimizing cost so thats why a lot of capitalists are investing on automation this days because they know its getting more cheaper than any human labor and will increase their profit more, and what happens if all humans are out of work? then expect no consumers so capitalism will die thats why socialist policies like universal basic income are getting popular this days just because automation is increasing worldwide that either cheapens more the salary of workers or totally replace human workers with robots/AI |
May 14, 2017 9:17 PM
#137
Monad said: Bullshit. State handling things isn't capitalism by default. It is communism. It's called state-capitalism. Just look it up. I didn't say it's normal capitalism. Communism is stateless and moneyless. They had both of those. Socialism is when the working class owns the means of production not when a single party by the state owns it. That's it's own thing. I guess it's a bit more like a kingdom in a way. Monad said: daky-kun said: JustaBrer said: Yes, it does. No job should be worth more than another. We all must work together, and it is important that people receive equal acknowledgement for all their hard work. However, we are not ready for socialism. Some day. Amen! I just hope that day will come soon. Seriously are you people that diluted? No job is worth more than another? I recently had an operation. An amazing surgeon fix my problem amazingly well and saved me of a lot harder life without even leaving a sign of the problem. The guy was amazing and saves so many people. Are you telling me his work isn't worth more than the guy cutting movie tickets? Just get out of here. And maybe he is able to keep doing a job from being able to go to the movies. Although some jobs arent even needed. No one actually likes that sort of job and it can be done by a machine. Takuan_Soho said: traed said: No there has been several. In fact before capitalism and serfdoms all capital was owned by workers and money didn't exist as a goverment regulated currency. ................... What? Neo-X said: Socialism can't work as long as the human has egoism. But here in Germany we are teached that Germany itself is a semisocialist state. Because everyone get's et least the existence minimum from the government. And yeah, many people are abusing it, so what? At least we have nearly no homeless people, and who is homeless in Germany want's it. Every homeless can go to German officials anytime and demand the socalled "Hartz 4" or "Sozialhilfe", wich are basically social security systems. They don't have to work for it and get a small flat plus some money monthly for free. Even if you get too few money from work you can demand Hartz4. So yeah, it works if it's established partly, but socialism like in the USSR with "Everyone gets the same" and 5-year-economy-plans can't work with humans. Too much egoists. Funny you say that because egoissm is socialist. Socialism is in the best interest of the self. I wish I could explain more but i dot know a whole lot about egoism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoist_anarchism Germany is more of a Social Democracy but it does have a nice law that half of the board of directors of a corporation has to be elected in by the workers I've heard. So that sort of makes it as this odd midpoint, although still leaning on the capitalist structure of hierarchy for the most part but more socialist than other social democracies around. Grey-Zone said: It would probably not. Sure you can enjoy your work if you like it even if you don't get something like money, but what if unfortunately, say, 70% of people just happens to enjoy something like taste testing and nothing else for work? What if only 1% like working in food production? And less than 0.001% like to work in garbage collection? They would do what needs to be done out of a stronger sense of community obligation or you just have mandatory work. Like oh say everyone works in a particular field of work for a certain amount of time if necessary or it is automated. You'd have to be full retarded to think people would intentionally starve themselves. Also although I understand your point you're also highly underestimating diversity of interests and how people actually make a living in socialism. How exchange works differs on what type of socialism it is. They could use money, labour vouchers, mutual credit, bartering, gifting, or a resource based economy. Being a taste tester isn't a full time job so it would never pay much in money, labour vouchers, mutual credit, or bartering. Taste testers don't work a full work day constantly eating. IcyGlacier said: Im from Venezuela and the main reason we are kinda fucked up is because of our Retarded President (Used to be a bus driver, No education and its funny to heard the stupid words he uses when giving a speech etc.), before our current president, we had Hugo Chavez which was a socialist as well but the country was running better than it is atm, but at the end, if Chavez didn't die, the socialism was going to fuck the country up at some point in the future. The government robs the money from the country and doesn't uses it the way its supposed to be used and the president is a Muppet that lets our country die with its people, many people are starving here, the salaries are not enough to be used in groceries the entire month, you cant buy anything good besides food to survive and you cant buy anime unless youre rich here. edit: sorry for my bad english. Venezuela isnt socialist. It's a planned economy with protectionist policies in a capitalist framework. It's not fully capitalist though obviously so it's a bit complicated. Your economy is fucked because of the US pairing up with Saudi Arabia to commit a financial attack on your country by fucking up oil prices which is what a large part of the Venezuelan economy is backed on. The rest is from the president not handling that type of economy well. SurprisedKyou said: It does if you are a democrat I guess. Democrat politicians are mostly Neo-liberals same as Republicans are. |
traedMay 14, 2017 9:24 PM
May 14, 2017 9:38 PM
#138
traed said: No there has been several. In fact before capitalism and serfdoms all capital was owned by workers and money didn't exist as a goverment regulated currency. ...................[/quote] What?[/quote] Sorry, I should have been more clear. ...................... |
May 14, 2017 10:40 PM
#139
j0x said: hypocrite_tenma said: no, but I dont think thats what Sanders wants. He just wants us closer to a democracy than an oligarchy, or whatever ruled by money is called. Being closer to a democracy appears to be socialism to some people though. But I do think capitalism works in the long run. The problem is selfish individuals that rip off consumers/selling them junk they do not need. But this isnt really capitalisms fault, it is the individual's fault. So we should just be more wary of white collar crime. But anti white collar crime =/= anti capitalism, although they usually homogenize for some reason. Also consumers should be held accountable too. I think they complain about rich CEOs yet they keep spending money on stuff they dont need and supporting the CEOs. Why people spend so much money is a psychological issue though, I dont really know the answer to why. the main goal of capitalism is maximizing profit while minimizing cost though so that is why its prone on making people greedy and doing cheap labor, Bernie Sanders knows that the rich gets more richer while the poor gets more poorer currently, you will hear news that only 8 rich people holds the same wealth as half of the world population and that shows that the new wealth are mostly going to the top 1% only while your middle class there in USA for example continue to decrease so there are actually more people entering poverty The reason 8 rich people hold so much wealth worldwide is not because of capitalism but because of the national banking system that allows central banks to print money as debt with interest that other people have to pay while the stockholders of central banks get richer and richer. Capitalism doesn't have any chapter where it demands that money are created as debt with interest. It's really funny how naive dreamers you are about that Bernie dude or your little socialistic dreams. You fail to get reality completely. But your dreams for utopia only lead to dystopia and you fail to realize as such. His wife tried to run a university with this little socialist dreams and it went bankrupt. I kind of wish you get the big socialist you are dreaming about just to see the reality of your delusion. traed said: Monad said: Bullshit. State handling things isn't capitalism by default. It is communism. It's called state-capitalism. Just look it up. I didn't say it's normal capitalism. There is no such thing as state-capitalism. Wherever you read that bullshit you should go and slap the idiot that wrote it in the face. Is like saying sour-sweet. It's ether the one or the other. Capitalism at it's core is about free trade and antagonism between individuals and companies. You can't have that with the state controlling everything therefore you can't have capitalism. traed said: Venezuela isnt socialist. It's a planned economy with protectionist policies in a capitalist framework. It's not fully capitalist though obviously so it's a bit complicated. Your economy is fucked because of the US pairing up with Saudi Arabia to commit a financial attack on your country by fucking up oil prices which is what a large part of the Venezuelan economy is backed on. The rest is from the president not handling that type of economy well. Now Venezuela isn't socialist ether. Just about anything to excuse your communistic delusions. You think you are dreaming of a utopia but you are dreaming of a dystopia. Get it to your damn head. |
MonadMay 14, 2017 10:56 PM
May 14, 2017 10:52 PM
#140
Grey-Zone said: It would probably not. Sure you can enjoy your work if you like it even if you don't get something like money, but what if unfortunately, say, 70% of people just happens to enjoy something like taste testing and nothing else for work? What if only 1% like working in food production? And less than 0.001% like to work in garbage collection? Now you might say "but wait! perhaps now it wouldn't work, but what about when automation reaches a certain stage where it may work out?" that might be so, but there are still some dangers like we could easily become a Dystopia similar to the one in "Brave New World" and as we have witnessed in recent years, the more mass production we get into to rise the quantity, the more the quality falls. For example a toaster from 20 years ago that has been in constant use since then would often keep working longer from this point on than even a newly made toaster you buy today. The decrease of quality in products would probably not get much better, escpacially if it's to sustain the whole of at least the western civilisation with automated food-production, as well essential limited-lifetime electronic devices. Then there is also the "human factor". As everyone should know by now pretty much every system sounds quite perfect on paper and as long as it's untested for whatever reason, you can just insist on the delusion that it will work EXACTLY as the theory states. But even in an "automated socialistic society" someone has to "regulate" things, be it establishing and maintaining the limits of what people could do and what not (e.g. legislators and law enforcement/police) as well deal with outside threats assuming the automated socialistic society hasn't completely taken over the world yet (military) and most importantly it needs someone who allocates/manages the robots/machines. In the end you have to amass power somewhere (government, even if only locally), or less risk anarchy, or take the risk of giving the control to the robots, which would require pretty much unlimited trust to whoever built/programmed those robots, both in terms of skill as well as trustworthyness, which would again indicate higher risk than before. Compared to that with our cronysm-infested capitalism it seems that at least relevant powers somewhat neutralize it each other enough for there to be a sufficient level of stability. Even though it sounds like the most ridiculous and unscientific out of everything about Capitalism in itself, the so-called "invisible hand of Capitalism" still seems to be the most important aspect of it and what gives it the edge over systems like Socialism. I kind of laugh at the "but but but what if..." "but it was never real communism" etc etc. Did this people ever think that maybe it never ends up being what they call "real communism" because it just can't be done because it's bullshit. How many times and how many countries have to try and fail for them to realize that already? They reason they can't accept it is because it's the ideology of the lazy and incompetent or lowly skilled and those people will always dream of getting a system that lets them get shit they dot deserve in the place of more deserving ones. Instead of wasting out time with a system that has failed again and again we should just be focusing on fixing the issues of capitalism and improve it. |
May 14, 2017 10:52 PM
#141
traed said: Venezuela isnt socialist. It's a planned economy with protectionist policies in a capitalist framework. It's not fully capitalist though obviously so it's a bit complicated. Your economy is fucked because of the US pairing up with Saudi Arabia to commit a financial attack on your country by fucking up oil prices which is what a large part of the Venezuelan economy is backed on. The rest is from the president not handling that type of economy well. So let me get this straight. The US and Saudi Arabia stopped the entire world from buying Venezuela's one export. Oil. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/venezuela.aspx Executive Orders 13692 - Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela (March 9, 2015) Then to top it off, we somehow caused their Government to really stick it to us by creating a food shortage and doing like the dude just told you about squandering tax money. Damn. We are good! |
May 14, 2017 10:55 PM
#142
Soverign said: traed said: Venezuela isnt socialist. It's a planned economy with protectionist policies in a capitalist framework. It's not fully capitalist though obviously so it's a bit complicated. Your economy is fucked because of the US pairing up with Saudi Arabia to commit a financial attack on your country by fucking up oil prices which is what a large part of the Venezuelan economy is backed on. The rest is from the president not handling that type of economy well. So let me get this straight. The US and Saudi Arabia stopped the entire world from buying Venezuela's one export. Oil. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/venezuela.aspx Executive Orders 13692 - Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela (March 9, 2015) Then to top it off, we somehow caused their Government to really stick it to us by creating a food shortage and doing like the dude just told you about squandering tax money. Damn. We are good! They didn't stop them from buying it they devalued it. Look it up. You will find different countries blamed but it's always the same story the economy collapsed from oil. Monad said: There is no such thing as state-capitalism. Wherever you read that bullshit you should go and slap the idiot that wrote it in the face. Is like saying sour-sweet. It's ether the one or the other. Capitalism at it's core is about free trade and antagonism between individuals and companies. You can't have that with the state controlling everything therefore you can't have capitalism. Sorry I'm not sorry, you're wrong . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism State-capitalism was intended to be a gateway to socialism. It wasn't socialism itself. It was just a bad approach. Monad said: Now Venezuela isn't socialist ether. Just about anything to excuse your communistic delusions. You think you are dreaming of a utopia but you are dreaming of a dystopia. Get it to your damn head. You obviously don't know what socialism is. You should really stop talking about things you clearly don't know anything about. Im not a communist. I think the state is necessary or a least inevitable. I'm also against a Stalinist type government. |
traedMay 14, 2017 11:09 PM
May 14, 2017 10:59 PM
#143
traed said: Soverign said: traed said: Venezuela isnt socialist. It's a planned economy with protectionist policies in a capitalist framework. It's not fully capitalist though obviously so it's a bit complicated. Your economy is fucked because of the US pairing up with Saudi Arabia to commit a financial attack on your country by fucking up oil prices which is what a large part of the Venezuelan economy is backed on. The rest is from the president not handling that type of economy well. So let me get this straight. The US and Saudi Arabia stopped the entire world from buying Venezuela's one export. Oil. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/venezuela.aspx Executive Orders 13692 - Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela (March 9, 2015) Then to top it off, we somehow caused their Government to really stick it to us by creating a food shortage and doing like the dude just told you about squandering tax money. Damn. We are good! They didn't stop them from buying it they devalued it. Look it up. You will find different countries blamed but it's always the same story the economy collapsed from oil. No decent economy collapses by a single thing falling in price. Also oil like many things will have ups and downs in price. It will be inevitable that at some point it will have a low price. |
May 14, 2017 10:59 PM
#144
I don't need to look it up. If Venezuela could export more efficiently, (cough Capatalism) then they could easily compete with Saudi Arabia. They would have no shortage of customers for their oil. You know... the same thing kinda sorta helped bring down the USSR. Just sayin. Or do they need dirty US Pig dollars to stay afloat? I mean, that is kinda funny. |
May 14, 2017 11:01 PM
#145
Monad said: j0x said: hypocrite_tenma said: no, but I dont think thats what Sanders wants. He just wants us closer to a democracy than an oligarchy, or whatever ruled by money is called. Being closer to a democracy appears to be socialism to some people though. But I do think capitalism works in the long run. The problem is selfish individuals that rip off consumers/selling them junk they do not need. But this isnt really capitalisms fault, it is the individual's fault. So we should just be more wary of white collar crime. But anti white collar crime =/= anti capitalism, although they usually homogenize for some reason. Also consumers should be held accountable too. I think they complain about rich CEOs yet they keep spending money on stuff they dont need and supporting the CEOs. Why people spend so much money is a psychological issue though, I dont really know the answer to why. the main goal of capitalism is maximizing profit while minimizing cost though so that is why its prone on making people greedy and doing cheap labor, Bernie Sanders knows that the rich gets more richer while the poor gets more poorer currently, you will hear news that only 8 rich people holds the same wealth as half of the world population and that shows that the new wealth are mostly going to the top 1% only while your middle class there in USA for example continue to decrease so there are actually more people entering poverty The reason 8 rich people hold so much wealth worldwide is not because of capitalism but because of the national banking system that allows central banks to print money as debt with interest that other people have to pay while the stockholders of central banks get richer and richer. Capitalism doesn't have any chapter where it demands that money are created as debt with interest. It's really funny how naive dreamers you are about that Bernie dude or your little socialistic dreams. You fail to get reality completely. But your dreams for utopia only lead to dystopia and you fail to realize as such. His wife tried to run a university with this little socialist dreams and it went bankrupt. I kind of wish you get the big socialist you are dreaming about just to see the reality of your delusion. ever heard of crony capitalism? lobbying? corporate welfare? its all for the interest of the rich to get more rich and its one of the main criticism of capitalism which is the rich gets richer while the poor gets poorer google about the Panama Papers too, the rich would rather just hide their excess money instead of investing more to create high paying jobs for the people or they avoid getting tax more when in fact taxing more the rich will lead to creating more middle class consumers that is good for the economy as a whole and for the longevity of their own businesses but no they rather hide their excess wealth which came from the poor consumers to begin with wake up, money is not unlimited and idle/excess money of the rich should go back to the greater economy to give inclusive growth and again the reason socialist policies like universal basic income or taxing more the rich is getting more popular in the first place is because automation is increasing worldwide that it either cheapens human workers salaries more or human workers are out of job since robots/AI have overtaken their jobs |
May 14, 2017 11:39 PM
#146
Monad said: No decent economy collapses by a single thing falling in price. Also oil like many things will have ups and downs in price. It will be inevitable that at some point it will have a low price. I never said Venezuela's system is good or bad. It's certainly poorly managed though. They need to at least streamline their system. Norway has an economy at least part based in oil and is pretty much a Social Democracy and it's a very prosperous country. Soverign said: I don't need to look it up. If Venezuela could export more efficiently, (cough Capatalism) then they could easily compete with Saudi Arabia. They would have no shortage of customers for their oil. You know... the same thing kinda sorta helped bring down the USSR. Just sayin. Or do they need dirty US Pig dollars to stay afloat? I mean, that is kinda funny. Saying capitalism like that doesn't mean anything to me. What are you considering efficient or inefficient? You're being far too vague. |
May 14, 2017 11:49 PM
#147
traed said: Saying capitalism like that doesn't mean anything to me. What are you considering efficient or inefficient? You're being far too vague. I can't really explain it to you since I doubt you have ever worked. Correct me if I am wrong here. But the assumption that you can produce a good or service in a very inefficient manner and still compete with the very efficient is a symptom of all Socialism and Communism. In your little society after all, everyone is rewarded the same. No more or no less correct? I mean, if it even works as intended and the party officials don't need just a little more than everyone else, am I right? I mean, they work so hard dang it! It is also the height of arrogance to believe that you can bite the hand that feeds and there will be no repercussions. If you need the US to buy your fucking trade good, then probably not the best idea to make them an enemy no? But I mean, this can apply to everyone. |
May 15, 2017 12:11 AM
#148
Soverign said: [I can't really explain it to you since I doubt you have ever worked. Correct me if I am wrong here. That's not an argument because it's irrelevant to your further points and is nothing but a personal attack. But the assumption that you can produce a good or service in a very inefficient manner and still compete with the very efficient is a symptom of all Socialism and Communism. This is just retarded. Not only are you claiming it's always inefficient you refuse to define inefficient or efficient. You refuse to explain why you think it's inefficient and prove it always leads to that. This is just meaningless rambling. In your little society after all, everyone is rewarded the same. No more or no less correct? Not correct in most forms and certainly wrong with Venezuela. I mean, if it even works as intended and the party officials don't need just a little more than everyone else, am I right? I mean, they work so hard dang it! Your point? It is also the height of arrogance to believe that you can bite the hand that feeds and there will be no repercussions. If you need the US to buy your fucking trade good, then probably not the best idea to make them an enemy no? But I mean, this can apply to everyone. The US started bad relations by performing an attempted coup, or at least allegedly did which is definitely in it's playbook. Nothing you said answered my question which tells me you didnt know what you meant either. *sigh* people in this thread |
May 15, 2017 12:24 AM
#149
traed said: That's not an argument because it's irrelevant to your further points and is nothing but a personal attack. Did it offend you that you do not have any real world experience? This is just retarded. Not only are you claiming it's always inefficient you refuse to define inefficient or efficient. You refuse to explain why you think it's inefficient and prove it always leads to that. This is just meaningless rambling. Yeah. Because assured equal pay regardless of effort won't carry into everything you do. Not correct in most cases and certainly wrong with Venezuela. So what? Chavez tricked everyone with secret Capitalism? Your point? Hypocrisy. Human nature. The US started bad relations by performing an attempted coup, or at least allegedly did which is definitely in it's playbook. Then why would we bring down a Capitalistic trade partner? Did we do it for Saudi Arabia? Or, I dunno, maybe Chavez could have slit Venezuela's throat himself? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Venezuela_relations Better yet, why didn't Putin help? Nothing you said answered my question which tells me you didnt know what you meant either. *sigh* people in this thread Okay. Sure bud. Let me ask you this then, what was Venezuela's plan to divest its exports? Or bypass doing business with the US? Chávez's version of Bolivarianism, although drawing heavily from Simón Bolívar's ideals, was also drawn from the writings of Marxist historian Federico Brito Figueroa. Chávez was also influenced by the Hispanic American tradition of cooperativism early in his life, Oh and what exactly caused the food shortage? I mean, you didn't answer that either? |
SoverignMay 15, 2017 12:27 AM
May 15, 2017 7:08 AM
#150
traed said: Grey-Zone said: It would probably not. Sure you can enjoy your work if you like it even if you don't get something like money, but what if unfortunately, say, 70% of people just happens to enjoy something like taste testing and nothing else for work? What if only 1% like working in food production? And less than 0.001% like to work in garbage collection? They would do what needs to be done out of a stronger sense of community obligation or you just have mandatory work. Like oh say everyone works in a particular field of work for a certain amount of time if necessary or it is automated. You'd have to be full retarded to think people would intentionally starve themselves. Also although I understand your point you're also highly underestimating diversity of interests and how people actually make a living in socialism. How exchange works differs on what type of socialism it is. They could use money, labour vouchers, mutual credit, bartering, gifting, or a resource based economy. Being a taste tester isn't a full time job so it would never pay much in money, labour vouchers, mutual credit, or bartering. Taste testers don't work a full work day constantly eating. You just outright ignore the human element and ASSUME that humans are good natured (in socialism). If we had that in capitalism, then cronysm would never appear in the first place and socialism has nothing to suggest that humans would "suddenly" turn into super good-hearted people. It's wishful thinking. And you are replacing capitalism by capitalism with more diverse currency than only money. But the way you describe it, you still get rewarded for exactly the work you do. This might more or less work on the employee level, perhaps, but the problem is that socialism and capitalism definitly differs, at least according to the basic idea, on the "upper echelons". But it's those very "upper echelons" that decide on matters for the employees. Capitalism is a top-down system, while Socialism is supposed to be, somehow, a bottom-up system, but in history this never worked out, because the "up" in bottom-up can never stabilize, as it easily gets turned into the scapegoat for every single instance of dissatisfaction. The lines between the "bottom" and "up" get blurred too much. The resulting consequence is as one can see: the "up" is most likely replaced by a very popular figure from the "bottom" who has no choice but to seize more power to not only prevent from the previous result to repeat itself, but also to fix the recent problems and emergency situations caused by the previous dispute between "bottom" and "up" and the result is even more top-down than capitalism: centrally planned economy. And due to the obivious leverage of controlling the whole economy, the power expands into areas beyond the economy... resulting in dictatorship... In other words, paranoia of the "bottom" towards the "up" leads to replacement of the "up" with someone from the "bottom". And when the "bottom" realizes that the "up" has far too much power after all happened it's usually far too late and the new "up" has already become corrupted by the power and lost their perspective. |
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