• richhersey (52)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  I agree with most of what you replied. I wrote a response to the OP here:

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  value is the socially necessary labor needed to produce something. The utility value does not matter, for a very simple reason. We can fucking make more of something if we need…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "you'll probably end up being ruled by some central comitee, like your beloved USSR" "And no, I don't think I'm stupid. However, I'm starting to think you are, given the…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "Stuff is planned at a local level. That's called "market forces"" delusional lmao. "We need more x to do y" is planning "I will pay x for y, if you happen to have it" is…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  are you stupid? The incentive would be what the workers themselves produce, instead of the small scraps they are given today. In capitalism the gun to the head is starvation…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  I am not part of the design team. We have the resources, that has been proven and that's all I need to prove. I do not need to figure out the specifics myself.

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  'But then, how would they get paid?" the money the capitalist pays the workers doesn't come out of nowhere, the workers themselves produce their own wage and a massive profit…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  capitalism can not exist without the government. Under capitalism the government is essentially a business, so yes. It is privately owned.

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "Oh my god, are you really comparing the microeconomic level of a company with that of a COUNTRY, or the WORLD? Yes, McDonalds can do that because they have less stuff to worry…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "How are you going to clean the water? How are you going to distribute it? Who is going to teach the teachers? Where? For how much time? Are you going to force people to be…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "Where is this food located? Who is going to distribute it? How are they going to distribute it?" why do the specifics matter? #1 we throw away most of it, #2 whoever we want…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  A worker goes to work to produce resources for humanity. A capitalist controls the property, and thus demands everything the worker produces. He then gives the worker a portion…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  statistics prove that under a planned economy far less people die, its that simple.

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "Your text was pretty and well written, but, in my point of view, it's lacks a better understanding of a lot of concepts, and, by the end, just sounds like some crazy "conspiracy…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "No, poverty doesn't exist because of capitalism. It exists even though we live in a capitalist society, and its levels are lower because of that. Had we lived under any other…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  'Also, how are you praising the USSR? Yes, it had and unprecedent industrial progress for its time, but it did it on the back of what you considered so important in the beggining…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "reason it isn't happening faster is because investors are, generally speaking, risk-averse. And the governments in these 3rd world countries are what create most of that risk"…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "To finish this, I won't even start on how capitalism is, for the time being, the best system we can have, and for one simple reason: it's impossible to plan everything in an…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "Also, "profits" do not exist in a vacuum. Profits exist to be an incentive to employers to employ people, " other way around m8, the owners need the workers for a profit while…

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• anarchyhasnogods (68)in #politics • 7 years ago

  RE: Poverty, Control, and Capitalism

  "Who would grow their food, without incentives?" nobody, economy can not function without incentives, do you think I'm stupid?

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