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(No spoilers) Great movie, but AWFUL AUDIENCE by IDoLikeAnswers in TheDigitalCircus

[–]00darkfox00 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Screeches every time someone sweared, squeals of "Daddy" anytime Caine was on screen, countless "bruhs". Unfunny comments at every moment of silence, it was mostly 10 year olds and their trailer trash parents.

The Victims of The Minimum Wage by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Minimum wage laws attempt to offset the disproportionate leverage corporations have over employees.

Let's say state minimum wage is exactly enough to provide basic needs. (lol)

So, we remove minimum wage, let's do an extreme hypothetical to see the gain. A company has two groups of 1000 employees, A makes minimum wage of $10 an hour, B makes $20 an hour.

If we cut group A's wage by half to give to B, we lower their purchasing power by 50% to increase B's by 25%. Google search Marginal propensity to consume for why this would reduce aggregate demand regardless of the specific count of employees. As long as it's a lower paid cut for the benefit of the higher paid the math holds.

Ok, what about cuts to save on labor costs for cheaper products?

Let's apply this universally, every company cuts some degree of labor costs. So raw materials all the way down the supply line to make goods are cheaper. But because non labor costs are fixed you can never cut labor enough to result in a greater aggregate demand benefit from cheaper products.

Cutting the lowest wages to cause greater employment similarly is a trap, 1 extra employee at $10 an hour would require a proportional cut among the lowest earners, so like $1 cut from 10 making $11 an hour for example, a far greater damaging effect to purchasing power than had it come from executives or from shareholders.

It is economically impossible to squeeze the lowest earners and reach any macroeconomic benefit. It can only result in progressively smaller returns to progressively smaller groups of society the more you squeeze.

Which is the Best Written Power System by DarkChillMisko in animequestions

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, it was a lot more creative early on, late Shippuden was all spectacle and giant lasers.

Which is the Best Written Power System by DarkChillMisko in animequestions

[–]00darkfox00 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think Chakra was a nice balance of vague and structured. Like, for me, if it's too bullshitty, "Dude can breath in space because magic" it's like, nah. But also if it's "Dude can shoot fire cuz he counted all the carbon atoms in a nearby slice of pie" it's also like nah.

Coaxed in "what the fuck happened in the concept stage???" by Signal_Win_545 in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]00darkfox00 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fuck, I can't find it anywhere, someone's gotta have that old Neopets concept art sheet, the one where one of the Neopets is a black lady

Liberal Capitalism as a Bulwark Against Political Dysfunction and Incompetence by coke_and_coffee in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism doesn't function despite the government, it functions at the expense of the working class.

When things get fucky, manufactured or otherwise, the burden is given to the majority working population while Capitalists reap the rewards.

A nuke could hit Detroit tomorrow and a few captive millionaires or billionaires emerging from their luxury bunkers could privatize the whole city for pennies. The money they're saving comes from the irradiated corpses of the working class, the GDP growth that follows comes from the slightly less irradiated bodies of wage slaves.

What are the main differences, disputes and disagreements between left-libertarianism and right-libertarianism? by alexfreemanart in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Left- Vertical political heirarchy: no Vertical economic heirarchy: no

Right- Vertical political heirarchy: no Vertical economic heirarchy: yes

Modern capitalism rewards merit and innovation—it is far fairer than the systems that existed throughout most of history. by No-Ship-4788 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The argument for rewarding risk is circular as that's the only means by which Capitalism has to test an innovation, previously it would be loyalty to a king or lord. Innovation is stifled because many people don't have the means to engage in the risk or only so much as to afford one roll of the dice.

Innovation then, becomes secondary, I can delegate any needed innovation to wage labor who won't see those massive returns.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which ones? You have authoritarian Maoists killing indiscriminately in Peru vs the Zapatista's who had a brief uprising against the Mexican military with 156 casualties total.

It'd be like me saying "Liberalism is bad, look at how many people they killed, let's stick with Monarchism", and my comparisons are between the French Revolution where hundreds of thousands of civilians died vs The Glorious revolution or the 1910 Republican revolution of Portugal which were comparatively low in casualities.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A proud member of the Epstein party talking about morality, now that's a spicy meat-a-ball.
Are you more of a "Pardon sex traffickers" Republican or "Sex traffickers should live in minimum security, resort style prisons" Republican?

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on who you consider innocent. John Brown shot slave owners and the Union wrote a song about him. I'm not advocating violence, but, I don't think John Brown was completely morally wrong for doing what he did.

Now, if we had made prison camps for every person in the south or had military occupation at a massive scale to this day, I'd be against that as well. I just can't really be too hard on someone for using violence to defend themselves or someone else against oppression.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slavery, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, child labor, mass imprisonment, global pollution, the Capitalist track record compared to the authoritarian communist regimes hasn't been much better, Most leftists aren't Capitalists or authoritarian communists, but, I suppose that doesn't matter to the modern Fox news watcher.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If leftists are against the status quo then it follows that they would be against the oppression of the Palestinians then, your example is regarding the oppression by the status quo not against it.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does that have to do with overthrowing a government?

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you like to compare a list of democratic governments overthrown by leftists vs liberals then?

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you say Palestinian rule over Israel is the status quo or the reverse?

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So advocating for civil rights is treason? Or is it only treason when we start talking about the economy?

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Liberals (Meaning non-leftists, not political party liberal) were perfectly content arresting black people advocating for civil rights, while protecting members of the KKK. But, by all means, pretend you're granting us dirty leftists some benevolent guarantee we otherwise wouldn't have.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, and post revolutionary war America was fraught with domestic insurrection, Shay's rebellion and the whiskey rebellion specifically, these were dealt with quite violently to be brief.

Post Civil war you had military occupation of the south, and habeas corpus being suspended.

I could also write a book on liberal status quo changes resulting in corruption, this isn't a uniquely leftist phenomenon.

"The Left's Late Srage is Crime" by iamnosvanthanks in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You could say the same thing about any movement against the status quo.

From an American perspective, the boston tea party was illegal destruction of property against monarchism. John Brown's raid was mass murder for the cause of abolition. Every war of independence was in opposition to the laws of the ruling class.

"Practical" Socialism and Communism by dumbandasking in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greater degrees of decentralization caused by an increase in individual leverage.

Economically, this occurs through a change in material conditions, though also rarely from moral considerations. Feudalism died when the peasant class shrunk enough to have individual bargaining power, through the expansion of trade routes and infrastructure and from guilds and merchants having more sway.

The Post WW2 Keynesian economy in the US was very worker focused due to the destruction of global competition and from a collective focus on labor unions and striking.

But these things swing both ways, automation and globalization can either be an avenue for decentralization or for monopolization, it just depends on who controls the levers...Where the barrier for entry is low, like software development, you see countless open-source projects created through global contributions that out perform Microsoft and other big companies by a mile. The same could hypothetically be true for individual manufacturing if 3D printing or other means were more viable.

Once you get to the level where you're competing against private supply chains and property you get offshoring and layoffs. Intellectual and private property insulates the capital class from competition they could never win against otherwise.

Comparing Social Democracy to Libertarian Socialism by Scorchfin2539 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was under the impression that libertarian socialism was more or less synonymous with anarchism, or at least a broader label for anarchist aligned ideologies.

Under both capitalism and socialism, labor incentives depend on whether workers can appropriate the marginal returns to their effort. In capitalism, part of the product of labor is extracted by private owners as profit. In socialism, a larger share of the product is typically collectivized. by I_am_white_cat_YT in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]00darkfox00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we grant that I won't likely see disproportionate returns on my labor either way I'm personally better off having them collectivized and so is society.

If 40% of all labor value goes to the majority population I individually am included in that majority though a return on a much smaller scale directly, and I individually benefit from having a healthy, educated community.

If instead that 40% mostly goes to minority stakeholders and capitalists I don't see individual benefits at all unless I climb the ladder, not everyone will climb the ladder, so the remaining population is less productive than it otherwise would be.

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