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Life for the sake of life means nothing.
"free-rider""Free Rider"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL!
Quote from: RavynousHunter on February 21, 2016, 10:23:08 am"free-rider""Free Rider"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL!?
"Politician" is the occupational equivalent of "Florida".
What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to convince yourself a fascist candidate is somehow a liberal?
Quote from: Sigmaleph on February 21, 2016, 10:18:15 amQuote from: I am lizard on February 21, 2016, 12:36:39 am[image snipped]I really don't get this fantasy that humans are solitary actors that 'produce value' as a fact independent from the societal context they live in. Almost all the value produced in a capitalist society is possible because of societal-level collaboration allowed by having, y'know, governments. If Bob can choose to say "sorry, no, don't want to contribute to the government" and yet still live in the society that government allows, then he's a free-rider.QuoteNowadays, in the present state of industry, when everything is interdependent, when each branch of production is knit up with all the rest, the attempt to claim an Individualist origin for the products of industry is absolutely untenable. The astonishing perfection attained by the textile or mining industries in civilized countries is due to the simultaneous development of a thousand other industries, great and small, to the extension of the railroad system, to inter-oceanic navigation, to the manual skill of thousands of workers, to a certain standard of culture reached by the working classes as a whole, to the labours, in short, of men in every corner of the globe.
Quote from: I am lizard on February 21, 2016, 12:36:39 am[image snipped]I really don't get this fantasy that humans are solitary actors that 'produce value' as a fact independent from the societal context they live in. Almost all the value produced in a capitalist society is possible because of societal-level collaboration allowed by having, y'know, governments. If Bob can choose to say "sorry, no, don't want to contribute to the government" and yet still live in the society that government allows, then he's a free-rider.
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Nowadays, in the present state of industry, when everything is interdependent, when each branch of production is knit up with all the rest, the attempt to claim an Individualist origin for the products of industry is absolutely untenable. The astonishing perfection attained by the textile or mining industries in civilized countries is due to the simultaneous development of a thousand other industries, great and small, to the extension of the railroad system, to inter-oceanic navigation, to the manual skill of thousands of workers, to a certain standard of culture reached by the working classes as a whole, to the labours, in short, of men in every corner of the globe.
I sympathize completely. However, to use against us. Let me ask you a troll. On the one who pulled it. But here's the question: where do I think it might as well have stepped out of all people would cling to a layman.
