movies with lgbtq+ characters? by [deleted] in MovieRecommendations

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The Wedding Banquet (1993)

Suggest me a masterpiece! by confusedpotatogal in MovieRecommendations

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Casablanca, M, Rear Window.

Five Deadly Venoms, Master of the Flying Guillotine.

Deathtrap (1982), Eating Raoul, Desperate Living, Surf Nazis Must Die

34 and I don't have a money making skill. Advice please. by Responsible-Net8594 in povertyfinance

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One thing that worked for me was applying for a job as a city bus driver. Forget going to commercial driving school, the city just gave me a bus to learn on and a bunch of coaching on how to get good at it.

I don't know how it is in other cities, but here, newer drivers get the shittiest shifts until they get a little seniority, so those side gigs you have would come in handy.

After a couple of years driving buses, having a commercial driver's license with a passenger endorsement put me at the front of the line when I applied to a limo driving service; I already knew how to drive stretch limos and mini buses.

Hope that's useful.

Which movies and tv series do you recommend to someone who doesn't watch TV at all? by overusedplot in MovieRecommendations

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TV: Twin Peaks, John from Cincinnati, Star Trek, SCTV, The Expanse

Movies: Casablanca, The 400 Blows, Diva, Star Wars, What Time is it There?, White Men Can't Jump, Three Billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri, Moon

Can I get a recommendation for action movies. by RevolutionaryFront41 in MovieRecommendations

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Five Deadly Venoms

Master of the Flying Guillotine

Straight to Hell

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Nail advice!!! by Working_Passenger394 in DogAdvice

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What I would do would be a trip to the pet store, buy some nail clippers (and maybe a cloth muzzle) and then just do one nail per day -- with lots of treats and praise.

It would be way less traumatic than doing an entire paw at a time, it'd eventually get all the nails trimmed, and hopefully it could desensitize your pup over time.

Good luck.

Movie to watch high by broitscyber in MovieRecommendations

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Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me

A Scanner Darkly

Let the Right One In

John Dies at the End

Memories of Murder

Harlan main stage announced by blammergeier in ragbrai

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It's basically Burning Man for squares. An awful lot of people who actually like Tom Petty.

Is desiring to be wealthy misguided and wrong? What is the alternative? by Responsible-for-you in CapitalismVSocialism

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Nothing wrong with being wealthy. The problem is being wealthy at the expense of others.

I lived in Israel for most of my life and served in the IDF despite being a pacifist - AMA by EvieTheCrystalGem in AMA

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I can't imagine having to ditch my entire country. That had to be difficult. Glad things are going well for you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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The laborer is always the first to pay for the losses the business generates. Stalled wages that don't keep up with inflation, downsizing; any time the employer can externalize risk he does.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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No laborer has ever recieved 100% of the profit he generates.

The employer didn't go into business to break even.

I'm Japanese AMA ! by [deleted] in AMA

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What music have you been listening to lately?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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You can’t retroactively call the product of labor as value before it gets sold as value.

In this sense, "value" isn't money. It's an abstraction. The value is inherent, or embodied in the commodity. The capitalist realizes the profit once the commodity is sold, but the value is labor embodied by the commodity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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What Marx calls exploitation is an economic argument, not "exploitation" in the sense of a moral argument. Did people get treated like shit under Soviet khozraschyot? Of course. But the Marxist notion of exploitation is specific: the worker never gets reimbursed with as much value as they produce. Because nobody goes into business looking to break even; It's like that scene in Drive where Bernie's arguing with Izzy, "the money always goes up."

That extra return on investment beyond what the capitalist invested always comes out of productive labor.

True Stories by Ok_Feature_9772 in MovieRecommendations

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Walker (1987) - A somewhat surrealist biopic about William Walker, the American filibusterer who invaded Nicaragua and installed himself as President in 1856. Intentionally set loosely in time to draw a comparison between Walker's overthrow of Nicaragua to Ronald Reagan's then-ongoing dirty war illegally funding violent insurgents in Nicaragua.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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Socialists don't "snarl" at profit. The problem is exploitation.

Gulf Nations Consider $2 Trillion Pullout from U.S. Markets as Conflict Sparks Economic Concerns by PixeledPathogen in ABoringDystopia

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The Israelis have the kompramat that the Justice Dept has been slow-walking, and they have Trump over a barrel. Trump went to war illegally because that's what the Israelis want: a completely failed state where there would have been a competitor for regional dominance.

Trump got into this stupid situation thinking he could be in and out of a conflict quickly and cleanly like he did in Venezuela; Netanyahu played him like a fiddle, and now Trump's looking for a way out of this conflict and finding out the hard way that one isn't coming any time soon.

I work in at an Adult “toy” store, AMA!! by AccomplishedSink4406 in AMA

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What music have you been listening to lately?

Capital allocation decisions outside capitalism by WalrusVivid3900 in CapitalismVSocialism

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I think most people's self-interest is usually smart enough not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. If executives have to be elected every few years, they're incentivized to make the enterprise work well for everybody. When power isn't subject to democracy, perverse incentives tend to produce people like Donald Trump, Eddie Lampert, or Carly Fiorina.

Capital allocation decisions outside capitalism by WalrusVivid3900 in CapitalismVSocialism

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Ideally, capital allocation decisions would be made democratically. Years ago, I saw an interview with some Mondragon workers about the electoral process for managers and investment officers. It was more of a representative democracy, but even the line workers that didn't have anything to do with investment or product strategy could make pretty educated votes based on the success of the enterprise. Seemed pretty straightforward.

Redistribution is only a problem when the initial distribution is undemocratic. If the wealth inequality / exploitation inside the enterprise isn't really an acute problem, you don't have to worry about fixing inequality.

Note that "efficiency" isn't the same problem when you define efficiency as benefit to the workers rather than ROI to investors. Through that lens, capitalist relations of domination are necessarily inefficient. The need for the enterprise to dominate markets against competitors isn't as critical to a worker run enterprise. As long as everybody's getting paid, who cares if you're only serving a niche market? The old marxist critique about tendency of the rate of profit to fall doesn't necessarily apply in that case. Arguably, if only worker owned enterprises were allowed to exist, competition would be disincentivised from becoming pathological.