Regulation = harder to start business
to start a business to compete with Samsung you would need a massive amount of capital on the order of 100 billion dollars, regulation is not the primary barrier. these people think eliminating the health department will turn the local food truck into a multinational instead of giving everyone diarrhea
Yes, thank you. Law is not the reason I haven't started a business, it's money.
I have no interest in starting a business, why do they think that's the endgame for the human experience?
The part they never seem to mention in their thinly-veiled-greed “everyone will be a lord” bullshit is that a whole lotta people gotta be serfs.
This is such an obvious fact that I can only imagine they are well aware of it and are banking on their moron followers and bootlickers being such supreme slack-jawed imbeciles that they don’t notice.
I operate under the assumption that it's just western chauvinism. They assume the global south will just be cool with being the serfs that make our treats. This gets laundered into society with the commodifying of others cultures.
"But I love my air fried crab Rangoon" cries the
Their whole argument is based in wanting to start a small time business in a Marxism-based economy? This is as stupid as people asking about how a stock market would work in a communist society. Jesus...
I like how accidentally honest this person is. They directly say not owning a business is tantamount to slavery. They're blindly stumbling into the capitalist tendency for wealth to centralize and interpreting it as a Marxist plot to destroy capitalism, rather than the system following its own logic.
when you can tell by the number of typos how close they are to shrivel and shrink into a corncob
This lib is lucky, I tried starting a “lib decapitation business” but apparently that’s against a whole bunch of regulations so they won’t let me.
I’ll get you next time liberal!
"I dare you to name one Marxist US politician" would be my reply
I need not your praise, only your service. Now go commit an adventurism, Jack!Imagining a timeline where after every time a fascist does a mass shooting, Brandon gives out pre-emptive pardons to anyone who murders a republican for the next week.
If we're talking about Bernie, I feel like he's wealthy like a 1950s auto worker, which isn't horrible. There are so many vacation cabins owned by working class families in Michigan.
A lot of American discussion about economics only makes sense if you imagine yourself as a small to medium business owner who is materially comfortable, but is struggling to expand their wealth into the millionaire/billionaire range. You can only interpret taxation as an unfair obstacle designed by the even wealthier class above you. You have no sympathy for the lower strata, because they're just instruments for you. Your main political concern isn't liberation, because you're already liberated. The main concern is psychological comfort and becoming even more massively rich.
So while you're focused on your stupid ski dealership or construction business, you're watching all these finance guys do laps around you. And since you're a pig brained American, the fact that you haven't gained billionaire status yet is because of Marxist taxation laws or billionaire collusion to make everyone but them into proletariat.
That's the real crux of it I think. American small business dipshits do feel a threat they'll become working class, or might have to actually work for the first time in their life, and to them this is the same threat as the most cartoon villain version of communism. Any threat to their comfort or power is interpreted as slavery. It's why these hogs are the ideological base for fascism.
I find this highly accurate as that is the persona of all those viewpoints. Maybe that's even real people, but it's who the ideas are targeted at.
Tbf capitalists generally have an ok understanding of Marxism and a keen awareness of class.
But to be even fairer, that's not what these commenters meant at all
Fact: Billionaires are so rare because they are the only people who were able to finish all three volumes of Das Kapital.
I often hear people say that at the time of Stalin's death, his personal possessions basically amounted to 3 or 4 coats and misc clothing, his pipe, some books, and whatever was in his pockets.
Is anyone able to confirm or deny that, ideally with a source?
He had like 12 pairs of pants. He does seem like the type of guy that would want some extra pants, just in case. I think he also had a lot of books. Somewhere there's a receipt listing his possessions when they were gathered after his death. It was modest.
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His salary was 10,000 rubles per month and he paid 300 rubles to the party.
For reference a miner's salary was up to 8000 rubles. Minister's was around 5000 and professor or academic could make more than 10000.
He did make a great deal of money however from the books that he wrote. There is no exact information about how much he made for all of his books, but we do know he personally funded various prizes and awards: Stalin's Award for scientists, artists, and inventors. Each year he would pay 29 first prizes of 100000 rubles, 25 second prizes of 50000 rubles and 40 third prizes of 25000 rubles, which means that Stalin spent a grand total of 5150000 rubles every year as money prizes for his award.
Upon his death his locker was opened which had a bag with 200,000 rubles unspent in it, his relatives received access to his savings account which had an additional 30000, a car at the time was roughly 15000 rubles. He had nothing else.
Each year he would pay 29 first prizes of 100000 rubles, 25 second prizes of 50000 rubles and 40 third prizes of 25000 rubles, which means that Stalin spent a grand total of 5150000 rubles every year as money prizes for his award.
Ok wait so he was actually kind of loaded. That must be a lot of fucking money from books, damn.
He wrote a lot of extremely popular works. I think the important thing here is that he didn't use any of it for property and he spent literally all of it on these awards.
"some books" he had like 20,000 books
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/16/stalins-library-by-geoffrey-roberts-review-the-marks-of-a-leader
As he read, he made notes in red, blue and green pencils, underlining sections that interested him or numbering points that he felt were important. Sometimes he was effusive, noting: “yes-yes”, “agreed”, ‘“good”, “spot on”, “that’s right”. Sometimes he expressed disdain, scribbling: “ha ha”, “gibberish”, ‘“nonsense”, “rubbish”, “scumbag”, “scoundrels” and “piss off”.
He was a true poster
Also some interesting stuff in the marginalia:
Stalin ridiculed Lysenko’s view that every science had a “class character”, writing on a report by Lysenko: “Ha-ha-ha…And Mathematics? And Darwinism?”
There's also President Diaz-Canel of Cuba. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the way a politician's salary works in Cuba is that they make the same salary as the last job they had, meaning he makes the same salary as a professor.
This is your brain on the Libertarian model of politics.
I can understand where the climate change deniers are coming from. They are stuck with either the earth getting further irreversibly fucked and nothing is being done about it, or it is a handful of people who want to sell wind power plants and stop you from eating beef because they want to make you soy. The latter is a lot easier to handle if you manage to delude yourself into believing in it.
I was on (non vegan) ketosis for two weeks as a test, not just the adjustment period which was longer, and those were the two best weeks in my life.
I haven't ever felt better since going back to carbs. My brain worked a lot better back then.
Also, ketones get turned to carbs in your fucking liver for your brain to live. And vegan keto? My god are you suicidal??
So why am I off keto? No gallblader :)))))
I'm gonna get in contact with a dietary doctor someday anyway to get back to it.
No, just not homicidal.
That is completely understandable, but entering keto unprepared and inexperienced as a vegan is difficult if not outright dangerous.
It's best to start of vegetarian if you lack the theory and/or are inexperienced with keto.
For people that really are inexperienced or just don't give a shit because reasons I guess, they can just go on meat eatin.
Go vegan if you are sure you can manage it, because it is very difficult to maintain proper ketosis and cook keto food while vegan, not mentioning possible deficits of micro elements.
Regarding my keto, I don't really remember how little carbs I was eating but I did absolutely cut out all potential high carb sources including high carb veggies like bell peppers. I also weighed shit like crazy, like everything. Especially meat, couldn't allow myself to go overboard with that.
From what I remember I did try to go deep keto, and the adaptation period was horrible but I managed. It's just that I only had my scale to truly know if I was in or not.
I also being a student didn't have a privilage to go even vegetarian. I also am not picky about the food I get given, so my main source of minerals, vitamins and the like were
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chicken livers and hearts. My main meat cut I was eating was probably bacon, and the most I've had were kielbasa. So with the last one, it was rather dirty keto but I've had be within budget.
And yes, suplements were out of the question, too expensive.
As I've said I only went of keto after deciding it could be unsafe for me, I don't have a gallbladder and my liver was making bubbling noises. Scary, what else can I say?
Going back to carbs was like getting hit with a dump truck, I felt like shit for a few weeks at least. In hindsight, I shouldn't have done it when in college because the fallout impacted my grades.
You should try it again, hell I plan to. Check out the Keto Bible or whatever it's called. In Poland it's Ketobiblia, big book. Packed with references to studies.
Edit: I forgot to add, my main oil was coconut oil.
Go ahead disengage, whatever you'd like. You riled yourself up, and I tried my best to be respectful.
This is my last reply as well, you need not reply.
Smart of you to assume I didn't check. I don't remember, and my notes are lost. I told you I just had a scale and worked with that, but your reading comprehension seems lacking.
Not eating meat on keto is privilaged dummy. And I also don't know where you live, but I bet it's not Poland where pluck costs cents on the dollar.
And about the supplements, I know. Guess what I was reffering to? Keto compatible supplements. They exist.
Either way, this response has proven to me you can't be taken seriously due to your lack of reading comprehension and lacking assumptions.
I challenge every person who sees this comment:
Deadass, name me one Marxist politician in the west. Tell me one person you’ve ever heard of who is an actual in office politician who is a Marxist.
I only know of ONE, and she’s a city counselor
I only know of ONE, and she’s a city counselor
lmao I was thinking of Kshama too
yeah I know...
I know someone who was freaking out about Biden winning- because Kamala is a communist
that was just to pick up one long legged communist when he was in college it doesn't count
It doesn't count because she vanished into the ether.
Another city councilor since 1998 in western Pennsylvania:
https://www.cpusa.org/authors/denise-winebrenner-edwards/
Tfw the poster correctly recognizes that reduced consumption to combat climate change will be forced on the working classes only but he blames it on communism.
If we assume that the ruling classes of the West implemented strategies like austerity to combat growing class-consciousness, then in a way Marxism (or the reaction to it) is responsible for the falling standard of living
Are we not living in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples seized by the throat, the positions of international communism lost? Is this not the fault of the Soviets for allowing themselves to be destroyed?
Damn if only those old losers who wrote theory had any predictive power maybe I’d be able to get a girlfriend.
It's almost like Keynes' model is built on top of Classical economist and therefore has some ''''Marxist'''' concepts
I can't name a marxist politician from my country, NOR can I name a politician who isn't corruptly rich.
is further left than Stalin himself!
