That sounds remarkably like the definition from Marx. Which translation did you use?
You're a douche. The definition is from Adam Smith.
Here's how Investopedia (the largest financial education website in the world, run by NASDAQ) puts it:
What is 'Capitalism' Capitalism is a system of economics based on the private ownership of capital and production inputs, and on the production of goods and services for profit. The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market (market economy), rather than through central planning (planned economy). Capitalism is generally characterized by competition between producers. Other facets, such as the participation of government in production and regulation, vary across models of capitalism.
I've told this story before, but when I was a young Italian-American kid growing up in Chicago's Little Italy, I heard someone say that Hollywood was run by Jews. Because I wanted to grow up to be a movie director, I figured learning Yiddish would give me a leg up. So I took some books out of the library and did my best to learn Yiddish. It was disconcerting for my parents to hear me talking like a Catskills comic at the dinner table, but they were pretty cool about it all in all. I couldn't keep up with a native Yiddish speaker, but I can do a lot better than most of my Jewish friends.
That's funny. I bought a Zune because it was a nice media player.
It's my favorite media player. I bought three Zune HD 64s because I like them so much. Two are still in the box in my drawer. I could sell them for a nice profit on ebay.
I hated iTunes so much that I ran out and bought a Zune. I'm not kidding. That's how awful it is.
Maybe if a Mac was my primary machine I wouldn't mind all the iTunes mishegas so much. I don't need my portable device to be inextricably paired with an account at Apple. Screw that noise.
(Note: "mishegas" is Italian for "fuck you, Apple, I don't want quicktime for Windows")
[Many people forget that in the '70s, Wayland and Madame were so popular that they actually made movies. This clip is from the unforgettable "Norman...Is That You?" with Redd Foxx. Also, I apologize to the young'ns that will be completely puzzled by the reference.]
Most cab companies I've used charge for every minute they have to wait.
That's only after the rider is in the cab and the meter's been dropped. Cab companies don't charge you if you live on the 15th floor and the elevator takes more than 2 minutes to get you downstairs.
The benefit of capitalism is that those individuals who own the industry have a very strong incentive to use it to produce things that people want (and hence will pay for).
This is what I mean by people using "capitalism" in the vernacular to give it all sorts of magical characteristics.
The strongest incentive is to power and profit. The lesson of the last quarter of the twentieth century is that you don't need to "produce things people want" in order to profit and gain power.
"You start with a decentralized democratic system, but over time you get the emergence of a leadership class with privileged access to information and social networks," DeDeo explained. "Their interests begin to diverge from the rest of the group. They no longer have the same needs and goals. So not only do they come to gain the most power within the system, but they may use it in ways that conflict with the needs of everybody else."
"Corporatist" implies the existence of corporations. Corporations are creations of the government (their owners are shielded from tort where in a free market the owner of something is liable for the damages it causes).
Corporations are nothing more than the aggregation of capital. The corporate "shield" is what (some) governments created.
You're using the term in the vernacular instead of technically.
They've been doing that for a few years now, it's just that they've been giving it to left-wing talentless self-publishers.
Yeah, it's as meaningless as a "teen's choice award" that gives Justin Bieber an award every year because he's cute.
It's basically the equivalent of an online poll, except "fans" have to pay to vote. The Hugos are about "swashbuckling fun" which to me sounds a little bit like "do you like gladiator movies, Tommy?"
Apples and oranges. You can have a corporatist system that is perfectly capitalist. You can even have a completely corrupt perfectly capitalist system.
"Free" is not part of the technical definition of capitalism. All it means is individual ownership of industry for profit. In the vernacular, people try to impute all sorts of magical properties to capitalism, giving it some quasi-religious sense of moral rightness and justice, but at the end of the day, it just means that the money goes in some guys' pockets, even if it's just a very few guys.
The Cultural Marxist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in weaponized zombies who prefer Big State authoritarianism and Central Planning over voluntary exchange for mutual benefit (the 'Free Market' - "capitalism" is the World the Marxists use for the Free Market). The nice thing is reality can only be defied for a short time, and those zombies will reap what they sew. And for all the sane people out there, buckle up, it's going to get rough as the Collectivist-Islamist Axis spins up to full speed.
Capitalism notwithstanding, you have a capitalization problem, friend.
And just so you know, when you use a term like "Cultural Marxist", it makes you sound stupid.
I'm OK with the Hugos being about "swashbuckling fun". They've always been a fan's choice award anyway, for the lowest common denominator. There are other awards for serious science fiction. The Hugos are for people who think Star Wars is science fiction.
Let's see how much attention the Hugos get once they start giving awards to talentless self-publishers like Vox Day.
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Here's what Rockbox supports with a stable version: Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series, Fuze, Clip, Clip+ and Clip Zip
Do any of those models have 64 gig of storage? How about a touchscreen?
Sansa with a Rockbox is Ford Fiesta. My Zune HD 64 is a Cadillac V-series.
Not yet, but it'll get there.
You're a douche. The definition is from Adam Smith.
Here's how Investopedia (the largest financial education website in the world, run by NASDAQ) puts it:
http://www.investopedia.com/te...
Zunes last 10x longer than a Sansa. And they sound better. They also handle podcasts MUCH better.
My bad. Compared to Nebraska, Iowa might as well be Silicon Valley.
I've told this story before, but when I was a young Italian-American kid growing up in Chicago's Little Italy, I heard someone say that Hollywood was run by Jews. Because I wanted to grow up to be a movie director, I figured learning Yiddish would give me a leg up. So I took some books out of the library and did my best to learn Yiddish. It was disconcerting for my parents to hear me talking like a Catskills comic at the dinner table, but they were pretty cool about it all in all. I couldn't keep up with a native Yiddish speaker, but I can do a lot better than most of my Jewish friends.
It's my favorite media player. I bought three Zune HD 64s because I like them so much. Two are still in the box in my drawer. I could sell them for a nice profit on ebay.
I hated iTunes so much that I ran out and bought a Zune. I'm not kidding. That's how awful it is.
Maybe if a Mac was my primary machine I wouldn't mind all the iTunes mishegas so much. I don't need my portable device to be inextricably paired with an account at Apple. Screw that noise.
(Note: "mishegas" is Italian for "fuck you, Apple, I don't want quicktime for Windows")
To be fair, the TV station was in Nebraska, so they're probably still using the old-fashioned ethanol-burning, chain-driven computers.
You were just named a vice presidential candidate, Ms Fiorina. So why the long face?
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It's "Wayland". Get your gay puppeteer references straight.
Oh, and here's a little gift for your thoughtful and appreciative comment:
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[Many people forget that in the '70s, Wayland and Madame were so popular that they actually made movies. This clip is from the unforgettable "Norman...Is That You?" with Redd Foxx. Also, I apologize to the young'ns that will be completely puzzled by the reference.]
Official Cruz-Fiornia campaign portrait:
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In other political news, Ted Cruz just announced his selection for vice president:
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That's only after the rider is in the cab and the meter's been dropped. Cab companies don't charge you if you live on the 15th floor and the elevator takes more than 2 minutes to get you downstairs.
You don't have to imagine. We have a system where Wall Street IS the government.
This is what I mean by people using "capitalism" in the vernacular to give it all sorts of magical characteristics.
The strongest incentive is to power and profit. The lesson of the last quarter of the twentieth century is that you don't need to "produce things people want" in order to profit and gain power.
Karl Marx could not have written that any better.
What part of "slavery" do you not understand? The United States was a capitalist country in 1850.
Corporations are nothing more than the aggregation of capital. The corporate "shield" is what (some) governments created.
You're using the term in the vernacular instead of technically.
But almost all of the best science fiction is serious.
"Swashbuckling fun" sounds like something you'd read in a review of gay porn.
Yeah, it's as meaningless as a "teen's choice award" that gives Justin Bieber an award every year because he's cute.
It's basically the equivalent of an online poll, except "fans" have to pay to vote. The Hugos are about "swashbuckling fun" which to me sounds a little bit like "do you like gladiator movies, Tommy?"
Apples and oranges. You can have a corporatist system that is perfectly capitalist. You can even have a completely corrupt perfectly capitalist system.
"Free" is not part of the technical definition of capitalism. All it means is individual ownership of industry for profit. In the vernacular, people try to impute all sorts of magical properties to capitalism, giving it some quasi-religious sense of moral rightness and justice, but at the end of the day, it just means that the money goes in some guys' pockets, even if it's just a very few guys.
Capitalism notwithstanding, you have a capitalization problem, friend.
And just so you know, when you use a term like "Cultural Marxist", it makes you sound stupid.
I'm OK with the Hugos being about "swashbuckling fun". They've always been a fan's choice award anyway, for the lowest common denominator. There are other awards for serious science fiction. The Hugos are for people who think Star Wars is science fiction.
Let's see how much attention the Hugos get once they start giving awards to talentless self-publishers like Vox Day.
Nobody respects you.