• 7bicycles [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    boiled down to "you worked on a thing, so you deserve the entire revenue of that thing", which obviously isn't true. Like, if your employer lends you a hammer for free, shouldn't he be entilted to some of the profits that the hammer creates?

    Good god the layers on this

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I like to hit people with some variation of:

      A couple years ago I hired a guy to patch my roof. Now I'm selling my house. How much of the proceeds should I give him?

      People start twisting themselves in knots real fast with that example. They generally understand and accept home ownership even if they can't afford it but they simply can NOT empathize with equity holders otherwise.

      Did you not pay your roofer wtf

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Even scholars whose theories aged far better like Darwin and Newton are similarly unreadable

        yeah those guys have been proved wrong a lot haven't they

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Show

          this is apparently the background picture to /r/neoliberal?

          • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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            10 months ago

            It's like they see a joke that other people do, and think "we must also be seen as capable of this hu-man expression known as "humour" we shall create a "joke" to laugh at with our fellow hu-mans."

        • Sinistar
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          10 months ago

          Newtonian physics is famously the most accurate and developed physics model for objects of all sizes and in all situations.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        The argument goes "and other employees are also paid"

        But this isn't what Marx actually argues, they are arguing against an insipid strawman