I'm a fan of both of those guys, but they don't write serious economic texts like Capital. That book is about far more than a bunch of problems of English factory workers; he describes the meaning of value itself and its relationship to money. It's a real worldview changer for people like myself who had only been exposed to Chicago-style econ in school.
For leftist reading in general, I consider folks like Chomsky to be more of a starting point than a conclusion, you know? They've got great and worthwhile perspectives, but don't perform the same abstract analysis as Marx. He'll never be outdated as long as capital investment controls production.
You'd find something else to do, just like anyone with a normal psyche. This stuff does hold the potential for addiction, which for most of these people is the only explanation for their obsessive behavior.
Think about it: nobody really wants his life to be sitting in a chair wasting time and just waiting for death to come a little closer. Nonetheless, this is the behavior of folks with addictions.
Actually, that description sounds like having a (white collar) job. I produce nothing of value, but here I am, helping my employer to shuffle piles of dollars into his pocket while I get enough to pay the rent. Nobody else gets a useful product or service out of it. I do it most days, but it feels like in a sane world I would be doing something that actually has tangible benefit or is personally enriching.
I don't doubt that to be the motivation, but even then it seems overkill since we have military bases all over the world. If a country decides to...misbehave...there's sure to be a base just across the border and also intelligence operatives already working inside the border.
Stalin's purges had far less to do with ideology than his many personality flaws. It is to be expected that anyone who has lived through a violent revolution would be a bit paranoid; but, even among revolutionaries, he was known for his short temper and haste to accuse anyone of treason. Lenin wholeheartedly rejected cults of personality and was horrified to see statues erected in his honor; Stalin seemed to live for it. When Brezhnev, a product of Stalin's old guard, took power, he brought the personality cult right back with the focus on himself.
I don't necessarily agree with Lenin or Khrushchev, but it's clear to see that the Soviet Union did have two sincere leaders in them, both of whom did not want cults to form around themselves. Stalin and Brezhnev encouraged it, and that is quite the mark of a bad leader.
The US wasn't enforcing any sanctions; if that were the case, the action would have been carried out by blue helmets and the action would also have not been an invasion.
1. Retribution is a good way to do things 2. Retribution against non-military is acceptable 3. The acts of states can be trivially compared to the acts of individuals 4. The reader is too dumb to understand the situation without an analogy
...and don't forget that "Web Developer" is still another choice. For some reason writing programs that happen to get executed by a web server puts us into totally different territory.
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I don't know about five, but how about the CIA
Just think! They could use up the entire Afghan opium supply. It would keep farmers in business while keeping down the black market!
Tell your senator that you want more transportation options besides automobiles.
Worse than that, JP Morgan picked Slovenia to finish fourth. Ahead of teams like Germany and Slovenia.
...that's basically how credit default swaps work.
The leading cause of death for people between 15 and 35 in the US is automobiles.
You sound like a big part of the problem.
Probably both, but don't forget about unequal distribution of wealth and its relationship to social problems like crime
Check the map; notice the USA is on par with Mexico (and Central America in general). This is not a good thing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
Maybe he had poor social skills; this is true of anyone who will sit down and write an 800 page book on economics.
I'm a fan of both of those guys, but they don't write serious economic texts like Capital. That book is about far more than a bunch of problems of English factory workers; he describes the meaning of value itself and its relationship to money. It's a real worldview changer for people like myself who had only been exposed to Chicago-style econ in school.
For leftist reading in general, I consider folks like Chomsky to be more of a starting point than a conclusion, you know? They've got great and worthwhile perspectives, but don't perform the same abstract analysis as Marx. He'll never be outdated as long as capital investment controls production.
Those Intel factories are built with capital from capitalist investors. That's the most basic definition of capitalism.
Seriously, read Marx. It's worth the time.
You'd find something else to do, just like anyone with a normal psyche. This stuff does hold the potential for addiction, which for most of these people is the only explanation for their obsessive behavior.
Think about it: nobody really wants his life to be sitting in a chair wasting time and just waiting for death to come a little closer. Nonetheless, this is the behavior of folks with addictions.
Actually, that description sounds like having a (white collar) job. I produce nothing of value, but here I am, helping my employer to shuffle piles of dollars into his pocket while I get enough to pay the rent. Nobody else gets a useful product or service out of it. I do it most days, but it feels like in a sane world I would be doing something that actually has tangible benefit or is personally enriching.
A basic level of human decency, probably
Yes but you see the constitution legally prohibits us from doing anything worthwhile and the wishes of 200 year old slave owners must be respected
Protons are protons you fucking idiot yes the sun radiates nuclear radiation
How can the government work well without a little injection of market efficiency?
hahahahahahahahaha we're all so fucked man
That's a good thing; I don't really want to end up getting goatsed with anusotropic filtering turned on!
I don't doubt that to be the motivation, but even then it seems overkill since we have military bases all over the world. If a country decides to...misbehave...there's sure to be a base just across the border and also intelligence operatives already working inside the border.
Stalin's purges had far less to do with ideology than his many personality flaws. It is to be expected that anyone who has lived through a violent revolution would be a bit paranoid; but, even among revolutionaries, he was known for his short temper and haste to accuse anyone of treason. Lenin wholeheartedly rejected cults of personality and was horrified to see statues erected in his honor; Stalin seemed to live for it. When Brezhnev, a product of Stalin's old guard, took power, he brought the personality cult right back with the focus on himself.
I don't necessarily agree with Lenin or Khrushchev, but it's clear to see that the Soviet Union did have two sincere leaders in them, both of whom did not want cults to form around themselves. Stalin and Brezhnev encouraged it, and that is quite the mark of a bad leader.
Don't beat that drum, it's my private property!
Get your own!
The US wasn't enforcing any sanctions; if that were the case, the action would have been carried out by blue helmets and the action would also have not been an invasion.
...and when he actually did invade Iraq, the exact same crime that the Nazis were hanged for at Nuremberg, they did jack shit.
The US is impervious to international law because it is the strongest.
1. Retribution is a good way to do things
2. Retribution against non-military is acceptable
3. The acts of states can be trivially compared to the acts of individuals
4. The reader is too dumb to understand the situation without an analogy
Come on, it just wouldn't be Slashdot if people didn't use childish analogies as an excuse for holding reprehensible opinions.
You can stop the military by cutting its funding, which will never happen.
The United States will implode long before it takes any steps to fix itself.
Eh, it's not on YouTube's front page.
...and don't forget that "Web Developer" is still another choice. For some reason writing programs that happen to get executed by a web server puts us into totally different territory.