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chenGOD replied to cruising for burgers's topic in General Banter
Look at this fucking shit. It’s almost May.
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Also I’d like to point out that you have simply stated this as if it is an a priori truth, no where have you demonstrated this to be true. Look who else is getting in on Marxist thought: https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2021/04/21/world-domination-us-sex-toy-company-programmes-its-doll-nova-to-talk-about/1968249
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The topic was brought up as an illustration of alienation from labour, and how can you resolve it under Marx without simply providing more money (while noting that wages should rise), as it is difficult to determine the value of one transaction in the service sector. So you have no ideas on the implementation and are instead happy to recite Marx as some form of...what, intellectual masturbation? Like I'm much more interested in how applying Marx's interpretation of Ricardian labour theory of value or Smith's theory of price to modern economic structures (given that the services sector was not a large part of the economy when Marx was around) would actually improve things, and how that could be implemented. So you're actually a neoclassicist (the theory of regulatory capture developed by George Stigler, who was influential in the Chicago school of economics) ?
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Is this from the original edit of Baby Got Back? This is good. There are a couple of cops on the soccer team I play with, and they really don't want to deal with domestic/mental health calls, for a number of reasons.
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They're trained to shoot center mass because it's fucking hard to shoot at small targets that are moving fast, and it is supposed to reduce the risk of innocent bystanders being shot. That guy who goes around teaching cops to be fearful for their life is fucked, and can get fucked. US cops do go for their gun way too quick, but I wouldn't want to be a cop in the US with how many guns there are out there. That whole aspect of American culture (gun lovers) is fucked, and I actually think shooting guns at targets is mildly entertaining (not something I'd do on a regular basis, but have done it before). With that situation - gotta ask, would a social worker really be able to de-escalate before someone gets stabbed pretty badly? I dunno, but I gotta think most social workers wouldn't be much help there. I think the taser should have been out and ready, and it should definitely have been more than one cop as well as a social worker for the immediate aftermath when the girl swinging was subdued by the taser. Damn. I just came here to post this.
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I'm not talking about platforms, of course there's code from iOS that has remained the same or similar (though likely much changed when Apple started using 64-bit chips), I'm talking about writing application code specifically for the iPhone 12's hardware features, such as the LIDAR scanner, or creating AR apps. Or programming for drive-by-wire vehicles, or for VR games, or any number of technologies that didn't exist. SCADA Systems have very good support, and backward compatibility with existing hardware is critically important. Medical devices have very good IT support (or are supposed to). And Apple has 39% of the smartphone share in the US, so it's not really a small fraction of the IT support field. It shows very clearly that IT support does exist under capitalism, contrary to your wild claim. Look, if you just want to continue shitting on capitalism, I can change the title of the topic. Maybe it should be changed, after all, Marxism is a theory of capitalism and its evolution. Or you could try and explain how to implement this highly advanced form of communism, when so far all basic forms of communism have failed (because the people implementing communism have tried to do so from an agricultural base instead of an industrial base I guess would be your answer). Or you could try some econ theory to show how Marxist thought can be implemented to make more efficient use of the factors of production?
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Man, are you being deliberately dense? No one was coding for the iPhone 12 in 2010. Speaking of false statements... You’ll have to point out exactly where I said that (I didn’t say it). I just provided an example of a piece of hardware (my MacBook Air 2013) that a) meets my computing needs, b) runs the latest Mac OS just fine, and c) which I can still get support for. I’m sure that’s not the only piece of hardware that’s approaching 10 years old that can still receive support. In fact I know it isn’t, as plenty of legacy hardware in mainframes still receives support and isn’t obsolete.
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Oh I believe you that the job was for a junior analyst position, it just doesn’t seem like much analysis is required. Also the degree requirement is ridiculous, but sadly standard these days.
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My good man, the company that creates a computing system that needs no IT support ever, will literally become the richest company in existence overnight. The idea of having something last for centuries is, I’m assuming, hyperbole on your part. The culture of buying new shiny things all the time is a little silly (my 2013 MacBook Air still meets all my needs quite well for example), but there are improvements in technology that couldn’t have been implemented 10 years ago, that can be now because of the progress of technology. Compare candy bar style cell phones to smart phones. You couldn’t have programmed for the iPhone 12 10 years ago, or the latest top of the line Huawei/Samsung etc. You understand how trite this turn of phrase is right? “merely creating a superior culture of engineering practices unheard of under capitalism.” It doesn’t sound like the job requires much analysis at all. Sounds like a data scraping job with some QA.
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Oh that sounds easy. I wonder why no one’s ever thought of that before.
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How do you achieve the elimination of alienation to work product in the service sector (which constitutes 71% of the American working population)? I'm not talking about just a dollar amount. Like providing health care, well and good, and somewhat easy to see the result of the service. IT support? Maybe not so much.
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Yeah, I'm not a clinical psychologist - I'm just going off personal experience with addicts and academic reading. I'm pretty sympathetic to the environmental causes of addiction, and likely agree that in many cases that is the driving factor. I've just known some pretty normal people who did not come from a background that is typical of addiction-seeking behaviour (poverty/abusive/traumatic) get hooked on meth and turn into unrecognizable shells of themselves in a short time. Interesting that they're not 100% illegal in the US - I didn't know that. I would have assumed that because pseudoephedrine is so highly regulated there (as opposed to Canada, where you can get products off the shelf with pseudoephedrine) that meth would be illegal. Making it illegal pushes it into the shadows and makes it harder to deal with - I fully support decriminalization of personal possession of it/being high on it. I just don't know about granting it full legal status like should obviously be done with marijuana as one example.
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Fully agree on both points man, and it's never my intention to blame it on addicts - I would urge more resources to help them deal with the consequences of their addiction, and how to deal with living with addiction (my understanding is that addiction doesn't really go away, but one can learn to manage it). Miss you as well - I'm not in the PNW anymore, but who knows, we might be able to meet up in the east coast. I wanna hit up DEMF again the next time it's happening!
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This is admirable, but often times the cause of addiction with meth is the actual drug. Again, I'm not saying they should be criminalized, far from it - many drugs that are currently scheduled should be legalized federally - marijuana, psilocybin, LSD, even heroin. On the other hand, I'm not sure if legalizing meth is a good option. Decrim definitely though.
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I wanted to avoid the opioid crisis, cause that's a different ball game altogether, and the pharma companies and doctors have a lot of blame there. But that is especially fucked. Oh you scamp
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Chinese commune workers literally had no choice, they could not refuse a work order. They may not have been chattel slaves, but they were certainly slaves in terms of forced labour. Adam Smith argued that free labour is far more productive than forced labour, and was vehemently against slavery. He also ironically argued that slavery would be impossible to eradicate under democratic governments where politicians owned slaves, but would be possible under centralized regimes (which certainly didn't happen under China or Russia centralized regimes, and continues not to happen in North Korea). I addressed China, Japan, and Korea. The statement that capitalist countries don't trade or promote capitalism with other countries is completely false. The US continues to trade with Venezuela, albeit at much reduced rates. The Venezuelan government's completely erratic process of nationalizing the oil industry, combined with their reliance on oil and ridiculous monetary policy has contributed much to the demise of their economy. They even managed to bungle oil trade with China. I don't want to waste more time on your erroneous claims, and your hatred for America clearly blinds you. Why don't we talk about Marxist thought (as the title of the topic suggests?) - because as much as I don't believe Marxism will lead people to economic prosperity, I do think he had some valid criticisms of capitalism. I think the idea of alienation to the products of labour has been an unintended consequence of specialization: So what would be a way for workers to better appreciate the products of their labour, assuming they are not in a small or medium enterprise (which a substantial percentage of the American work force is), beyond raising wages (which assuredly needs to happen)? How do they "affirm themselves in their labour?" while recognizing that production facilities such as factories need significant capital investment that is beyond the reach of one individual?
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Question: How do you deal with the meth epidemic? Criminalizing drugs obviously not the answer, but you know, meth is one of those things where you kind of take the ol' drugs r bad mmmkay approach. I'm sure some of it can be apportioned to poverty/lack of economic activity, but I gotta figure that some of it is just - meth feels pretty fucking good.
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the world demands this.
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The biggest trading partners of the us are all capitalist countries. China at one point was the richest nation in the world. Slaves were abundant throughout imperial China’s dynastic history. Following the civil war, with the rise of communists to power, people were slaves to the state (forced labour in the communes). South Korea and Japan may be allies with the US but their largest trading partner has almost always been China.
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chenGOD replied to dcom's topic in New & Upcoming Releases
This preview track sounds very lush indeed. had no idea he did these rescores, thank you for introducing them to me. -
I lied I’ll address this too: you understand that the US was once upon a time an agrarian nation where the majority of people did subsistence farming (I won’t call them backwards, that seems a tad imperialist to me). Japan rose out of some pretty terrible destruction to become a highly successful country, as did South Korea (which had suffered the deprivations of colonization before the Korean War).
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Lol talk about vague ramblings. I’ll just address one of your points. You understand that the US and members of Breton Woods actively pursue free trade and encourage capitalist practices in countries like China, India, and so on yes? This notion you have is very backwards. A) that’s America, where lack of proper regulation has created that particular nightmare and B) I do have friends in developing nations (third world and first world refers to something else), but I’m not sure how that’s relevant? If you want to bring personal anecdotes into this, we can swap stories and pictures about places we’ve been to that have implemented non-market economies if you’d really like.
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You understand that famine and disease have killed many many more people in the so called communist nations, and that through the implementation of more widespread trade and markets, more people have been lifted out poverty. So would you have everyone vote on every economic decision made by every actor?
