Marx's labour theory of value is only a theory of where profits come from and is largely rejected. Return on captial investment is not restricted to factory owners. All workers get a share of the surplus value and have the option to increase that by investing.

Sounds like you found a new way to write...

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

"Capital stands as one of the most influential and controversial books ever written. Its legacy is multifaceted, shaping intellectual discourse, political movements, and the historical trajectory of the 20th and 21st centuries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital#Legacy

My hypothesis is that if you go full socialism, you get stagnation, because no one is motivated to change anything. If you go full capitalism, you get Gilded Age, where wealth and political power is concentrated in the hands of few individuals, followed by Great Depression.

Healthy state is in the middle.

These scroll down websites are so bad on desktop.

its a pond in a gated complex. If they can swim its no danger.

That would only be in the short term. Eventually the labour adapts to the skills required.

2 years

There are a lot of people on Mastodon who are genuinely as insane as X users. I recently opened up my account and saw people engaging with al quds brigade accounts.

Its a nice thought but copyright is dead in the age of AI. I wish it werent but it is. We're in a period where copyright is only enforced selectively and it will pass.

AI Safety seems like an activst job. I just dont care to much about AI "safety".

Men are cooked. We are not doing well on average.

And colon cancer is on the rise so now I have that to be worried about before my 40s.

Good thing is that all of these conditions have screening and treatments, so you can do something about it.

This website is so depressing. It does not feel like there is a reasonable way to alter this course. The cat is out of the bag and our population is not mentally capable of fending it off.