Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honored tradition of our group, grab yourself a bevrage of your choosing and relax for this weeks, weekly discussion thread. Oh and have a pleasant Vietnamese Family Day
P.S. if anyone can explain how this photo came up with the search term "Vietnamese Family Day" I would love to know
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- Audio versions by Socialism For All (just keep in mind that he's an ultraleftist)--
Honestly ... Keep it up this is the best use of artilary shells
I heard someone use the term tankie irl for the first time. He was saying how great it is that our organisation can attract a lot of different groups who all bring something to the table, and one of the groups he named were tankies. At least he didn't mean it negatively lol
Wow today Ive been on Lemmygrad a full year, what a year its been
What if I dont want a nice week, what if I only want a decent week? THIS IS TYRANNY
I tend to block out all moments of my life where Lemmygrad was not running
One of our brave posters had information that was going to lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton and then they took the whole site out
I got an A on the essay I wrote about the Vietnam war for university. I couldn't go full commie in it but I was satisfied with how it turned out. My boyfriend helped a lot and found me really cool sources in our home library which i unfortunately couldn't cite as they are not accepted as legitimate sources. Still, i took it as an opportunity to learn and did my best.
Theres appears to be a coup d'etat in Bolivia https://www.milenio.com/internacional/luis-arce-denuncia-movilizacion-irregular-militares-bolivia
Can my family members just not treat me like a child for displaying autistic behavior? I feel like a child, and this is not helping
I'm sorry you're experiencing that, it must be frustrating even if they mean well. Are they open to understanding your experience at all?
Considering I was suffering from bronchitis for three weeks and I will soon go on a 2 week holiday to what is basically a vertical only island I am starting to wonder why I ever registered to run a marathon in october lol. But I will keep training and inshallah
As a thought:
We use money as a convenient way to describe the value of someone's labour. But, it removes all context. It's kind of like having a multi variable equation to describe the economic value someone has, and either using approximations, derivatives, or substitutions, to simplify the equation into a single variable.
Then, we use markets to do the same thing with the needs of people. It's a simplified representation of what the real quantifiable needs of people and society are.
It's sort of like instead of asking everyone what they need and want, prioritizing the needs, and figuring out how much labour time is required to meet those needs, then figuring out how much labour time is required to meet the wants. We decided it is easier(true)/better to assume that each person will only choose to trade the amount of labour time they are willing to commit to trading for their needs/wants.
If someone in this situation is able to have more money than their labour value (theft, inheritance, etc.), they are disconnected from the effort required to meet their needs/wants. Thus, they have the money required to meet their needs, plus extra that is unearned, and an imbalance of power under this arrangement. It becomes possible to offer more for resources that are either scarce, or close enough to being scarce, thus driving up the price without any additional labour from that individual.
I bet it is possible to invent a new metric (besides money, but maybe unnecessary) and/or a new distribution tool (instead of the "market") that prioritizes needs and wants more than simply money/capital.
I'll call this work:
Crapital volume 1
Keep in mind this is a much smaller scale than any bigger society but there are some Belgian communes for example that use time as a metric. For example: I work x amount of time doing stuff for you, like working in your garden, and you then owe me x amount of time to do something for me. Basically everyone trades their time to meet the needs of the commune.
That sounds nice and all, but the relationship between time and labour is not linear. So one might put in more effort than another in the same amount of time. Therefore, there are some limitations in using time as such a metric.
This would indicate we must find the mean of labor data time inputted...
