usernamesaredifficul [he/him] @ usernamesaredifficul @hexbear.net

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Really I found them dull 1984 especially

well like I said they actually did the wrong thing because they only took independence so they could make things worse

overrated bougie ahh revolution that didn't improve the situation for poor people in france even 200 years later

It objectively did you aren't accounting for how shit things were before the French revolution it was illegal to pay a worker more than the minimum required to live

well to be fair here the colonists were mainly mad at being constrained by British treaties from massacring the natives so the founding fathers are a much better map to Israel in this situation. It's also not undue to speculate that the strong abolitionist movement in Britain at the time that led to the fact Britain would ban the slave trade was a concern on some level to a colony that made its money off of slavery. infact there is some evidence that the relative popularity of abolition was a factor in the American desire to break from Britain

There are a lot of good reasons why someone might fight the British empire so it's a true testament to American ingenuity that they managed to find an evil reason

Yes you are correct I am arguing from what is the best way to behave within a market system and you are also correct that a market system is not the best way to organise society but as it is the current way we organise our society it's worth considering how to live in it

Yes trade unions won't on their own result in communism

operating in the market competitatively is stupid for anyone. It's like paying double whatever the person you're negotiating with was asking

by some degree I mean it's at someone's house

it is harder for underage people to drink but normally in the UK when underage people drink it's teenagers and they're supervised to some degree

Also there's lead in some vapes.

That's not how that law works it would be a law on shops

Only one of them really struggled with the difference, and she wasn't against learning, she just struggled. The rest handled the transition fine and didn't do a lot of complaining that it wasn't what they were used to

When my granddad was born everyone in his village made their money doing manual labour for the local lord. Old people have handled a lot of transition in their lives, arguably more than any generation in history. I'm patient with him not knowing how to use a computer he was alive when computers were invented

people shouldn't have to know how computers work. Computer scientists exist to know that for them

you shouldn't need to be a radio engineer to use a phone

that show summarised

What I mean to say is that in a market system the rational behaviour is to seek to maximise what you get for what you give. Anti-competetive practices are simply the logical way to behave in such a system. Trade unions do aim to use market forces to gain for workers an advantage and that is a good thing.

The market isn't fair and it never has been about fairness.

Ideally we wouldn't have a market system but while we do it makes no sense for the workers to not try and get ahead in it. I consider the market by its very nature crooked and therefore think that engaging in market tactics like cartelisation on behalf of workers is the only way to not get completely ripped off. Take coffee growers for example they are pitted against each other by the buyers and thus live in poverty as competition pushes their wares lower and lower. If they were to cartelise they would be able to afford good things and have the basic dignity of always having enough to eat. Competition in the market makes everyone poorer

so while trade unions are an anti-competetive practice that's only because competetive practices are stupid

a chapter in a book clarifying my point

The difficulty is in database design being tricky not the language. There's no getting around that by using a different language

whoopsies

I still catch up with him occasionally but we both got older and now we don't have as much in common as we used to

Arachne

Must have been another country

people literally say in response to police beatings that you should just obey the police. How are you free if at any moment you may be stopped and ordered to perform abitrary tasks under threat of violence

plus americans can't even legally walk on the street