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I'm English, don't forget to downvote me!

I do nothing to my cast iron, it's rusty and shit, it's fine.

famous potatoes

Amen, I'm in constant pain. Don't really feel the need to perpetuate that.

I'm genuinely not sure what the ethical position is. Maybe they are. Having watched a generation squander the massive wealth gains of what will likely be a unique economic boom, I don't necessarily think the consumption of that wealth in the name of "living" - often a euphemism for hedonism - is something to be celebrated.

How can we be reaching this conclusion, with all the accumulated wealth in the world? How can we be seriously believing everybody should start at zero? I can't believe what I'm reading here. Generational wealth is absolutely a thing, we inherit everything from the past. As a species, we inherit the wealth of the previous generation. Where are we imagining it goes? Given that it exists, why are we not entitled to benefit from it? There is so much wealth in the global economy, the issue is of distribution.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to pass the product of your entire life to your offspring, surely. We can't be so atomised. Where do you think it should go? Inheriting an empire is one thing, but why shouldn't you be able to give your own house to your child? I say this as somebody disowned by their father.

"My pronouns are ME/LC."

If this happens, he gets a pass. It's the only reason I can think of to focus that much wealth in one place.

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Jammy Jamaldson

Are you George Lucas? Can you read George Lucas' mind? Exactly, so don't pretend you know what the point of Star Wars is. For the record, it is about lasers pew pew pew pewwww

Interesting and worrying co-opting of tactics previously associated with jihadism.

I wonder what their motive was?

Probably not.

When, as we all know, it stands for n-BOOOOOP

I think some degree of meritocracy (i.e. recognition of a skills hierarchy) is necessary for human advancement, but as it currently stands it's impossible to separate that out from wealth privilege. If I had the answer, I'd make sure to tell everybody.

There's a million other processes by which wealth favours the accumulation of wealth, and it's largely this "logic of capital" that results in the formation of class hierarchies and entrenched inequality/capital enclaves.

That's probably secondary to geography in the first instance, e.g. wealth in the form of agricultural surpluses and the use of grain as a fungible commodity and proto-currency.

At this point a huge amount of wealth redistribution seems like a good start, and if it all flows back to the top, which I'd expect it to, then it'll just need redistributing again.

It was The Stranger by Camus, whoops.

That isn't my reading of Marx, what are you basing that on? That's certainly not the process described in Capital.