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I've crunched the numbers. They just don't work without me giving up video games. And I'm not giving up video games!!

Then who's going to do the mining? Adults? Do you want your iPhone, your car, your video games, your shoes, your plane trips, or not? All that stuff is gonna be "cost prohibitive" …

You want to trade off positions with those 10 year olds in the quarries? That's fine. I'd rather go home at night to my family, watch The Wire with my wife for the tenth time, and …

I don't know about that. I'm on a first name basis with my CTO. I hope to never see in person those wretched souls mining the cobalt for my Tesla. Ghastly!

You don't want to be divided from the miners who extract the minerals and the factory workers who assemble the crappy tech that we design? I do. It's absolutely squalid over there.…

Thanks for the articles, I'll have to catch up.

This is my first time hearing "central sensitization syndrome." I know back ~5 years ago John Sarno's "tension myoneural syndrome" was still the dominant diagnosis in the self-help…

A rupture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EksIy3aW0AEIsK-?format=jpg

The scope of Science has been set by private capital, but the Chinese lockdown is very clearly a scientific endeavor. Might as well compare vaccines vs. lockdown as two scientifica…

The final step, you've unified the two sentences: "Chinese people are docile and weak or are evil, greedy liars."

Oh. Well more people died of COVID in the past two weeks in the U.S. (where COVID is no longer a thing) than have died of COVID in China ever.

That's right. So the "cultural difference" you were referring to is the capacity to commit horrendous atrocities against basic civil rights that the West is too benevolent to grasp…

> All I am seeing on HN are people being careful to not offend, but at some point it stops being "cultural differences". That's exactly my problem, too. Thankfully, someone in the …

Much more interesting to follow live stories rather than throw around Adrian Zenz's crumbs years later. Here's the ongoing protest I was referring to, where "shattered lives" is a …

Why are you responding to me with this?

There are differences between the systems of a private capital and of a nation (or for that matter, the entire globe, which has never been planned centrally; incidentally this expl…

Well empirically lower demand does not lead to higher prices. The hopes and dreams of sustained profits are dashed by the coercive forces of competition. It's very sad.

Within a single firm, particularly large ones, surpluses and deficits can be communicated absolutely and crises can be practically eliminated. (It would be unthinkable for Amazon t…

Wow, that's cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

Forget "sprang." You said this: > Before the existence of our universe, there was no time . This is just a logical error. Unless you're using "before" in some novel way that needs …

Time, as component of the universe, itself "sprang into existence?" Despite "sprang" being a fantastical word to use in this context, it at least carries with it one thing for sure…

Reading the first chapter alone (in particular the section on commodity fetishism) will tell you all you need to know about how economists think, because it tells you why economist…

Marx identifies 5 functions of money in the 3rd chapter of Capital Vol 1 called "Money," not to mention the expanded treatment of money by Capital Vol 3. https://www.marxists.org/a…