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Abour factories, Truth To Power wrote: It ONLY exists because some particular person or persons made the decision to cause it to exist...


People who "make decisions" that "cause factories to exist" are called magicians.

For mortals, it takes labor which can only be provided by the workers.

In the Soviet Union, lots of factories were built without any magicians *conjuring them out of thoughts alone.*

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QatzelOk wrote:People who "make decisions" that "cause factories to exist" are called magicians.

No they aren't. When they implement those decisions -- the part of the production process that you "forgot" I specified -- they are called entrepreneurs, producers and employers. Here is my full sentence, which you so disingenuously edited to remove the crucial context:

"It ONLY exists because some particular person or persons made the decision to cause it to exist, and implemented that decision by their own initiative and labor of arranging for the relevant production factors to be applied to its creation."
For mortals, it takes labor which can only be provided by the workers.

The "workers" in the sense of wage laborers? No. Your claims are just objectively false. All labor, from flipping burgers to running an international corporation, consists of three steps: obtaining information, making a decision, and implementing the decision. Because he carries out those three steps, the entrepreneur/producer/employer is most certainly a worker. He just doesn't work for wages from an employer.
In the Soviet Union, lots of factories were built without any magicians *conjuring them out of thoughts alone.*

And in every other modern country. You are aware of the fact that I never said or implied that the entrepreneur/producer/employer conjures factories out of thought alone. I have stated repeatedly that implementing the decision to produce a product is a necessary part of the production process that causes the product to exist. You are just disingenuously pretending not to know the fact that I have repeatedly said so because you are a Marxist, and that is what Marxists always do.
"For my next act, I will pull a factory out of my hat."

As usual, you are just makin' $#!+ up and falsely and disingenuously attributing it to me because you know you have no actual facts or logic to offer, and that all actual objective facts prove your beliefs are objectively false and evil.
It is preferable to quote the part of a text that you wish to criticize, rather than quoting en entire post, sentence by sentence, with a crit of each sentence.

No it isn't. It is far better, clearer, and more honest to quote each specific false premise directly, verbatim, and in context -- you know: the way you don't -- and prove it false individually. That way it is clear where the disagreements are. You just hate clarity because you are a Marxist, and all Marxists hate clarity because clarity always shows why their beliefs are false and evil.
IDEAS are what is important to discuss, and not individual sentences.

What are you using your individual sentences for, if not to express your ideas?

Oh, wait a minute, that's right: like all Marxists, you are using them to create a miasma of anti-concepts, appeals to emotion, gaslighting, disinformation and propaganda in order to prevent yourself from knowing any of the facts that prove your beliefs are false and evil.
The style "sentence by sentence debunking" is a chore to read,

It's much more of a chore to write, believe me. But it is important not to permit ANY false premise into an argument. The fact that I debunk your posts sentence by sentence only shows how many of your sentences are false and need debunking. See your first sentence, above, for the proof that in responding to your fallacious and disingenuous Marxist filth, honesty and clarity require sentence-by-sentence demolition.
and ends up being full of useless filler that bores the hell out of anyone trying to follow the discussion.

You mean that it does not allow you to get away with all the bald falsehoods and disingenuous propaganda you were counting on getting away with, like your claim about magicians, above, and your despicable editing of my sentence to change its meaning.
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Truth To Power wrote:entrepreneurs, producers, and employers

How to make everyone workers.

Nationalize private industry without compensation and put the incorrigible 'producers' against the wall. Those 'entrepreneurs' willing to cooperate will have all their misbegotten gains expropriated - money, assets, and trinkets - and be given state housing and a job on the shop floor.


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ingliz wrote:How to make everyone workers.

Actually, how to make everyone but the politically connected poor or dead:
Nationalize private industry without compensation and put the incorrigible 'producers' against the wall. Those 'entrepreneurs' willing to cooperate will have all their misbegotten gains expropriated - money, assets, and trinkets - and be given state housing and a job on the shop floor.

Well, sure. It worked so beautifully in the USSR, Mao's China, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, and everywhere else it's ever been tried, didn't it? And only a low double-digit percent of the population has to be sacrificed.
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Truth To Power wrote:Well, sure. It worked so beautifully in the USSR, Mao's China, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, and everywhere else it's ever been tried, didn't it? And only a low double-digit percent of the population has to be sacrificed.


But this time it will be different! :lol:

Dunno, Capitalism in its current form is obviously kind of shit, and not working for everyone (although it has brought many people out of poverty, and has nearly ended non-war induced famine... but.. still.. not perfectly good). However, this whole give everything to the workers to managed is kind of shit idea too.

The irony some people also don't get is that Capitalism is what brought China out of being some shit backwater, not communism.
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Truth To Power wrote:No; China has not been using capitalism, but geoism roughly on the HK model: a market economy with private ownership of producer goods but public ownership of natural resources.


The global markets are capitalistic. China has plugged into it, and is the source of its wealth today. China does not direct or control the workers of say America, or Japan, or Korea, etc. Prior to Nixon trying to open China to the global system, it was a back water.

China has absolutely benefited from capitalism and globalization (which is the result of capitalism).

Again, not saying capitalism is the pinnacle of human achievement, but people (and nations) have a bad habit of attributing their success to only the things they are biased to attributeit too.
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Rancid wrote:The global markets are capitalistic.

But China isn't.
China has plugged into it, and is the source of its wealth today.

No, the source of its wealth is the geoist system it copied from HK. Lots of capitalist countries are plugged into global markets, but they stay poor because unlike China, they prioritize subsidies for landowners over justice and prosperity.
China does not direct or control the workers of say America, or Japan, or Korea, etc.

So? Who said it does?
Prior to Nixon trying to open China to the global system, it was a back water.

No, it was a backwater until Deng Xiaoping changed it from a socialist economy to a geoist one.
China has absolutely benefited from capitalism and globalization (which is the result of capitalism).

The fact that its trading partners are capitalist does not mean it is benefiting from capitalism. Globalization is a result of technology and markets, not capitalism.
Again, not saying capitalism is the pinnacle of human achievement, but people (and nations) have a bad habit of attributing their success to only the things they are biased to attribute it too.

Like capitalism. The fact that many capitalist countries languish in poverty proves that capitalism is not the cause of prosperity in geoist countries. Geoism is. You just have to refuse to know such facts because you have already realized that they prove your beliefs are false and evil.
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Rancid wrote:Sure, China didn't rise to power by taking part in the global capitalist system...

Notice how you have to disingenuously pretend that trading in a predominantly capitalist environment somehow makes China capitalist? By that "logic," Israel and Japan have prospered thanks to Christianity, because they have been taking part in the global Christian system.

China rose to power and prosperity by being geoist, thus outcompeting its global capitalist rivals. You just have to contrive some way to avoid knowing that fact because you have already realized that it proves your beliefs are false and evil.
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Truth To Power wrote:If geoist China owes its rise to taking part in the global capitalist system, why do so many clearly capitalist countries languish in poverty while taking part in the very same global capitalist system, hmmmmmmmmmm?


This isn't an argument of anything. This doesn't make a coherent point at all. Are you really suggesting that when China imports coal (not sure if they still do anymore, but that's besides the point) from say Australia, and negotiates a price/rate for that coal, they are not participating in capitalism?

To answer the question though, it's simple, they figured out how to play the game and played it well and better than others.

It is still the global capitalist game that they are playing when it comes to the global trade system (that is based on capitalism). They can't magically separate themselves from that global system. A system that worked in their favor (along with a good strategy of course). The fact that other nations for whatever reason couldn't thrive in this global capitalist system, doesn't mean that somehow China didn't participate in the global capitalist system. what are you on about? :?:

As the saying goes, the Communist Chinese are the best Capitalists. Hell, that was the CCPs approach initially. It was something to the effect of "Let's get rich first (by playing the capitalist game), then we take over".

For fucks say, that is exactly what Marxism claims. That you have to go through a capitalistic phase in order to get to a true communist system. :lol:
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Rancid wrote:This isn't an argument of anything.

Yes it is. It shows you have no logic behind your claim.
This doesn't make a coherent point at all.

Yes it does. It shows your claim is false and illogical.
Are you really suggesting that when China imports coal (not sure if they still do anymore, but that's besides the point) from say Australia, and negotiates a price/rate for that coal, they are not participating in capitalism?

That is correct. They aren't, any more than North Korea is participating in capitalism when it buys oil from China.
To answer the question though, it's simple, they figured out how to play the game and played it well and better than others.

By being geoist, not capitalist.
It is still the global capitalist game that they are playing when it comes to the global trade system (that is based on capitalism).

No it isn't. Trade is not capitalism. Capitalism is defined by OWNERSHIP, not MARKETS.
They can't magically separate themselves from that global system.

Any more than Israel and Japan can separate themselves from the global Christian system.
A system that worked in their favor (along with a good strategy of course).

It didn't work in their favor. Their own geoist system did, as it did in HK.
The fact that other nations for whatever reason couldn't thrive in this global capitalist system, doesn't mean that somehow China didn't participate in the global capitalist system. what are you on about?

But it does mean that it wasn't the capitalist system that enabled China to prosper.
As the saying goes, the Communist Chinese are the best Capitalists.

What saying?
Hell, that was the CCPs approach initially.

No it wasn't.
It was something to the effect of "Let's get rich first (by playing the capitalist game), then we take over".

But they didn't play the capitalist game. They kept all land in public ownership.
For fucks say, that is exactly what Marxism claims.

But Marx was wrong because China did not go from capitalism to socialism, it went from socialism to geoism.
That you have to go through a capitalistic phase in order to get to a true communist system.

But China isn't in a capitalistic phase, it is geoist; and it shows no indication of being interested in getting to communism, true or any other kind.
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Rancid wrote:This isn't an argument of anything. This doesn't make a coherent point at all. Are you really suggesting that when China imports coal (not sure if they still do anymore, but that's besides the point) from say Australia, and negotiates a price/rate for that coal, they are not participating in capitalism?

To answer the question though, it's simple, they figured out how to play the game and played it well and better than others.

It is still the global capitalist game that they are playing when it comes to the global trade system (that is based on capitalism). They can't magically separate themselves from that global system. A system that worked in their favor (along with a good strategy of course). The fact that other nations for whatever reason couldn't thrive in this global capitalist system, doesn't mean that somehow China didn't participate in the global capitalist system. what are you on about? :?:

As the saying goes, the Communist Chinese are the best Capitalists. Hell, that was the CCPs approach initially. It was something to the effect of "Let's get rich first (by playing the capitalist game), then we take over".

For fucks say, that is exactly what Marxism claims. That you have to go through a capitalistic phase in order to get to a true communist system. :lol:


Lol. If you read Noam Chomsky Stalin and Lenin and others all eliminated all the real socialists that believed in the working class running things and replaced it with people who wanted a form of state capitalism and an expansion of industrialization. Once they industrialized sufficiently they then did a form of social basics like health care and some basic worker rights. But it was weak. They had a lot of defects. Once the capitalism was reinstalled in the system in the nineties the poverty and inequality got bad and no one thought the inequality stuff was an improvement. It is an imperfect system that never got off the ground. Mainly due to people unwilling to do socialism that is about worker rights and investing in worker cooperatives en masse. It became a mafioso and corrupt state capitalism.

In the end you either empower the average workers and you start investing in sustainable development and dignified lives with security or you wind up with constant problems.

You evil man you.....who believe in harsh punishments like having to listen to this kind of music....



Bad church singers. You love them! Admit it Rancid! :lol:
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Truth To Power wrote:No they aren't. When they implement those decisions -- the part of the production process that you "forgot" I specified -- they are called entrepreneurs, producers and employers. Here is my full sentence, which you so disingenuously edited to remove the crucial context:

"It ONLY exists because some particular person or persons made the decision to cause it to exist, and implemented that decision by their own initiative and labor of arranging for the relevant production factors to be applied to its creation."...


ingliz wrote:How to make everyone workers.

Exactly.

His point is that "we're all workers" - billionaires and coffee shop drive-thru staff - because **one just has to put some words in a sentence that could possibly denote "work" in some context.**

And look at all the "work" that T2P's non-working "workers" do: they implement, arrange, cause to exist.... it all sounds so tiring. My virtual feet are killing me. I think I'll go to haveanap.com and relax. Or maybe I'll pay a consultancy firm to relax for me.

If you have a pile of stolen cash, you an actually pay someone to come up with an idea for you. You don't even have to have any creativity at all! Just stolen cash!

You can get McKinsey to come up with a business idea, then hire another consultancy agency to hire sub-contractors. And before you can say "my yacht needs some work," bam! A factory off and running.

Because of all your work. :lol:

Rancid wrote:Sure, China didn't rise to power by taking part in the global capitalist system... :roll:

No one has any choice in whether or not to participate. Look at where the USA's bases are. Everywhere.

The only choice a nation can make is HOW to participate. And for how long to maintain this method of participation.
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QatzelOk wrote:His point is that "we're all workers" - billionaires and coffee shop drive-thru staff - because **one just has to put some words in a sentence that could possibly denote "work" in some context.**

No, that is just another bald fabrication on your part. You are just makin' $#!+ up again to avoid knowing facts, as Marxists always do when they see their beliefs proved false and evil. I explained exactly what activities constitute labor, and why. Being a billionaire was not one of them. You know this. Why pretend you do not?
And look at all the "work" that T2P's non-working "workers" do: they implement, arrange, cause to exist.... it all sounds so tiring.

Maybe because it is work that you could not do successfully at all....?
My virtual feet are killing me. I think I'll go to haveanap.com and relax. Or maybe I'll pay a consultancy firm to relax for me.

Is such tiresome, disingenuous trash really effective in preventing you from knowing the facts that prove your beliefs are false and evil? Does it enable you not to know the fact that if not for the labor of the entrepreneur/producer/employer, neither the factory nor its product would exist?
If you have a pile of stolen cash, you an actually pay someone to come up with an idea for you. You don't even have to have any creativity at all! Just stolen cash!

:roll: As I already proved, where the cash came from is irrelevant to the economic effect of devoting it to production, just as giving a starving person a sandwich saves their life whether the sandwich was made from scratch, bought from a sub place, or stolen from a food bank by the giver.
You can get McKinsey to come up with a business idea, then hire another consultancy agency to hire sub-contractors. And before you can say "my yacht needs some work," bam! A factory off and running.

That is certainly possible. It is even possible that it could be profitable; and if it was, that would be a commensurate contribution to production. But many, many people with money have done more or less as you suggest, and lost their shirts. A major idiocy characteristic of Marx, Marxism and Marxists is the notion that merely owning a factory obtains a return, as owning land does. It doesn't. To be profitable, a factory has to be managed to produce greater value than is consumed in the production process. That is not easy, which is why so many fail at it.
Because of all your work. :lol:

That is exactly correct. It is the person who fulfills the contractual role of arranging for all the production factors to be applied to production who causes the product to exist, and is therefore that product's producer and rightly owns what they created. No one who supplied any of the subsidiary factors -- producer goods, wage labor, permissions, financing, etc. -- is actually responsible for the product's existence, nor do any of them legally or rightly own it.
No one has any choice in whether or not to participate. Look at where the USA's bases are. Everywhere.

Not in Russia, China or North Korea. So more accurately, to participate in international trade, one has to use a payment system, and the US government controls the payment system.
The only choice a nation can make is HOW to participate. And for how long to maintain this method of participation.

GARBAGE. North Korea chose socialism and more socialism, and has stayed poor. Russia chose to go from socialism to capitalism and stayed poor. But China chose to go from socialism to geoism, and despite all its imperfections and corruption and Marxist legacy, got rich in a few decades. You just have to contrive some means to prevent yourself from knowing that fact.
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About all the implementing, arranging, applying and causing to exist... that non-workers do day after day for the unthankful masses, Truth To Power wrote:Maybe because it is work that you could not do successfully at all....?


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"Truth To Power, thank you so much for defending my lifestyle. Many people think I just had to buy a suit and use my parents' money and connections to scam people with all the spare time I have... but you correctly identified all the really hard work I had to do in order to live in a multi-million dollar cliff-side mansion in the Caribbean." - Time magazine's "Non-worker of the Year"
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QatzelOk wrote:Image
"Truth To Power, thank you so much for defending my lifestyle. Many people think I just had to buy a suit and use my parents' money and connections to scam people with all the spare time I have... but you correctly identified all the really hard work I had to do in order to live in a multi-million dollar cliff-side mansion in the Caribbean." - Time magazine's "Non-worker of the Year"

See? You have seen your beliefs proved false and evil, so you have no choice but to make $#!+ up and falsely attribute it to me. Where are the producer goods created by Fried's decision and initiative? Where are the factories whose construction he financed and arranged for? Your "arguments" appear to consist of nothing but false and disingenuous insinuations that I am as unable to tell the difference between production, privilege, and parasitism as you obviously are. You have striven mightily to disgrace yourself with such fallacious and absurd trash. Nice going.
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Truth To Power wrote: Where are the producer goods created by Fried's decision and initiative? Where are the factories whose construction he financed and arranged for?

Lots of factories and producer goods were "expediated" and "made possible" by the financial "tools" that the non-worker Bankman-Fried "produced."

His parents are also [url]famous "non-workers."[/url] His mother wrote a book on how to not feel guilty after committing atrocities, and his father is a specialist on tax-dodging. Both really useful examples of "work." Mom also did some research into the efficacy of political bribes.

New York Post wrote:The group uses statistical analysis to determine the dollar-value influence of donations on Democrats running for the House of Representatives.


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