Imagine having your entire worldview destroyed by a ragecomic. Labour theory of value DESTROYED with FACTS AND LOGIC

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't understand what is supposed to be happening here and the troll faces annoy me. Someone explain.

    • science_pope [any]
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      4 years ago

      They both start with $20, and there's a box, and one trollface sells the box to the other trollface for $30. So then in the third panel, as you can plainly see, the trollface on the left has $50, represented by a green smudge, and the other trollface has $10 of debt, represented by a nearly identical green smudge. They both shout "Infinite money!" because they think the creation of debt -- a system of promised future servitude enforced by state violence -- is equivalent to both of them ending up with more money.

      "Problem?" it says next to a trollface, indicating ironically that this transaction is actually not problematic.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ok so there is debt involved, almost makes sense now. Why is this so confusingly made lol