Not you - it was a crosspost. I've just pulled out of two capitalism vs communism threads
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Not you - it was a crosspost. I've just pulled out of two capitalism vs communism threads
Integral
Can't you hear it?
These are questions that are, in fact, worth their own thread.
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Thanks for the replies! Sadly, it seems you can't put attachments in PMs. Ah well.
I've always thought that even those with capital -- who, as you say, have the means to manipulate workers and people with ideas -- are contributing to societal progress. Is this not the case?
What do you mean by government help?
I don't think they are, but I'll let the mods decide by starting one anyway.
Tax-funded industry and subsidies?
Ulyaoth
Emperor
They help in this kind of society to actually get ideas out their, but it's only for their benefit, and they in general hold up progress. We could have been done with oil years ago but for the monopoly on energy those companies hold. And government help is in the way of regulations and subsidies and lobbyists who get their companies made into monopolies and more power form the government.
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Integral
Can't you hear it?
Counterpoint: 15k character limit.
Also, going from LaTeX formatting to bbcode is annoying. (The problem's been solved. I just copy/pasted the text and reformatted.)
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It's an economic system of making money from seed money. Some people hate it because they feel that it favors people who were born with money, or otherwise came into money by 'unworthy' ways. Some people hate it because it's not communism.
Just attach the thing to a post you made years ago, and pm a link. There are probably a ton of websites for it too.
PS. LaTeX rules
QuoVadisNation
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Hey young kids/ teenagers!!
Diet pills. Ephedra. Caffine pills. Do you know what those are or are they as irrelevant to you as the VCR? If you respond, I'll let you pick a card from this box of pokemon cards. : 3 [yes, I'm old now. allow me to make fun of myself.]
Diet pills. Ephedra. Caffine pills. Do you know what those are or are they as irrelevant to you as the VCR? If you respond, I'll let you pick a card from this box of pokemon cards. : 3 [yes, I'm old now. allow me to make fun of myself.]
I know all three of those, especially Ephreda (it killed a major league baseball player some years back I think?).
Evolution and genetics also encourage inequality. At a higher level, individuality also encourages inequality; should we eliminate that too?
Ulyaoth
Emperor
Isn't the elimination of individuality basically the point of communism?
Fugitive Sisyphus
Escape Artist
I've got a question:
In tournament(could be sports or game tournament, swiss style or round robin) and you describe a matchup in the tournament as "Player1 vs. Player2" which player's name comes first when one in ranked or seeded higher than the other?
In tournament(could be sports or game tournament, swiss style or round robin) and you describe a matchup in the tournament as "Player1 vs. Player2" which player's name comes first when one in ranked or seeded higher than the other?
West 36
Can count up to 4
Nope.
Bigfoot3814
Deity
Will that same answer suffice next time somebody asks if the point of capitalism is to keep money in the hands of some powerful elite and away from the poor, exploited masses?
Nope.
holy king
Deity
that's usually determined by a tree like this:
for the first round it's usually the seeded player first, as he gets drawn first and then assigned an unseeded opponent by another draw.
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