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Among all the points in this video that are factually inaccurate, is the claim that Esteban Maito perceived falling profit rates over time. He didn't. He theorized them. Empirical research has shown a steady rise in average real profits over time. An easy way for the layman to observe this is to consider the material wealth you have available to you now, and compare it to that of John D Rockefeller.
Any projection into the future of overall profits may lead one to predict a decline. But that does not account for unforeseen moneymaking endeavors that future entrepreneurs may discover through innovation.
Even if human creativity came to a screeching halt and no one did anything new ever again, people would still be better off specializing their labor and voluntarily trading the fruits thereof for the fruits of the labor of others. Even if profit margins are at a steady state.
Marxists aren't good at economics because Marx was not a good economist. Capitalism wins because it aligns with reality. Marxism seeks to bend reality to Marxism, so it will always fail.
I often support my position with statistics. Your tone here is only different because you happen to believe the facts I present. If my position was based on earth being flat, you would be here saying “For once you state the raw facts”.
I chose JDR for his material wealth compared to ours, nothing more or less.
Capitalism is rooted in truths, but it’s foundation is more than greed and ego.
Not at all, greed and ego are the roots of capitalism and that's a necessary thing to motivate people to work and do well.
False. The roots of capitalism are a necessary thing to make greedy and egotistical people work and do well. Not everybody is greedy and egotistical. Indeed, one might even say greedy and egotistical people are not the best type of people.
You're wrong. Even caring and humble people want recognition for what they do. Communism raises us under the idea that all our uniqueness is nothing more than than a tool for others in society to feel owed and to use and abuse without a single ounce of "good job you deserve more as you did more". The idea is that every single thing you do or achieve is for the profit of everyone other than yourself. This is not just idiotic, it cannot and has never worked long-term.
Obviously I am not wrong. You are simply stupid and argumentative.
Even caring and humble people want recognition for what they do.
People have to live in a capitalist society in order to be recognised for what they do? That's nice. How do you explain Vladimir Lenin, Gary Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ho Chi Minh and the scores of others?
Wtf? Excluding Lenin and Minh, the other three names are/were members of the working class who were famous for being really good at something. Shut up you retard.
You surreptitiously attempted to conflate having a natural gift at something with hierarchical systems of organisation based on the principle of inherited economic privilege. I pointed out they are not the same thing. The fact that people are naturally better than others at certain tasks does not justify introducing your own artificial hierarchy contradicting this natural order and replacing it with a dictatorship of the privileged.
Do you realise that your justification for not being wrong was absolutely zero reasoning and just calling me stupid and argumentative? Firstly, you're being argumentative, that's how we defend views and attack opposing views on a debate site. Secondly, calling me stupid is 0% proof that I am, you should know that because the right wingers here call you stupid all the time, meaning the word is clearly proof of nothing other than what the person feels the other is.
Are you asking me how I explain a chess champion under a Regine that you admit was pseudo-acience and was actually fascism? Try again.
Lenin was indeed both egotistical and greedy but what he seeked to gain was power itself, rather than money. I guess that's true for the others you mention. You do realise in proper communism the hierarchy all climbed up would be gone, right?
You did so by naming people you assumed we're neither egotistical nor greedy that thrived in what you call pseudo-communism. Try again, darling because Lenin, Kasparov and the rest we're severely egotistical and greedy for recognition as opposed to just money. They weren't in proper communism, they we're in USSR and the others you me tioned in China and wherever else that all were what you call fake Communism.
Slow clap for the slow kid whose non-argument is good enough for now.
Even slower clap for the corrupt retard who purposefully omits my reasoning and then pretends I haven't provided any. How about you stop selectively chopping up people's words, you fascist imbecile? Would that be too much to ask? A debate where you don't cheat or lie?
Ya know what? You get an upvote for originality. We can talk about what that word is later. Also, you’re very good at the rapping. Is your stage, I mean street name “lil fella”? You keep on truckin.
Capitalism holds humanity back because only what is profitable gets done and we prioritize profit over efficiency and sustainability. It does not align with reality because it depends on a series of superstitious beliefs to function. If you don't believe in the made up concepts of money, ownership and laws etc. you can't have capitalism.
You often mistake social constructs as superstition. The concepts of money, property, and law are no less based in reality than the social construct of English.
You often mistake social constructs as superstition. The concepts of money, property, and law are no less based in reality than the social construct of English.
English is a form of communication. Money and property require the superstitious belief that money has value or that someone can own something. Laws rely on the superstitious belief in authority.
The social construct of language (which requires the belief the vocal noises, which can be conveyed through scribbles, represent things that are not verbal noises or scribbles), requires an amount of precision. You should be more precise with language.
Superstition:
1a : a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation
b : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition
2 : a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary
People knowingly use language as a symbolic form of communication. It is not a superstitious belief system because we all know what it is. Something like ownership or money or law on the other hand, is something people are brainwashed with. You are programmed to think people "own" things or that certain people have "authority" and you must abide by their rules, or that money has value when this does not exist in objective reality. It is merely a conceptual work of fiction that serves as an excuse for the upper class to have their way with everything.
The first articulable concept that children develope is “mother”. The second is “mine”.
While their are objective truths about value, it is a subjective phenomenon. The fact that people value money is objectively true. The idea that they shouldn’t, is your subjective opinion, and one that you have not supported well.
You should make whatever point you can with whatever information you have, rather than assume information you do not have. Among the pieces of information you do not have, is what I believe in matters I have not discussed nor why I think what I think on such matters, let alone what you have decided I think. You’re turning into a clone of your boyfriend.
Hey Dummy have you taken up your internet genius with this capitalist ??????????
Bill Gates/Net worth
96 billion USD
2018
You really should and explain to the billionaire that Capitalism is only a temporary phase !!!!!! Your ignorance and entertainment value continue to grow !!!!!!!!
You can tell that this guy doesn't understand what the point of recession is to people who run the stock markets and the insurance companies as well as banks that rely on it.
You wanna fuck with the top level of Illuminati? You better keep ya head down, kid. They are out of your league, even I know my place.
Yes this is why the lower classes will ultimately overthrow the beorgiose
Hello D:
I went to war against fucking commies like you.. Apparently, some of slimier ones slipped through the cracks.. But, we'll get you the next time around..
The fact that I'm HATED by the likes of you means I'm DOING my job.. Fuck you in your commie ass..
Should read: excon, fake Jew and mental slave to American propaganda. I can't believe you were tricked into risking your life in the military so that the US could suppress the rise of socialism and exploit 3rd world countries. You're a worthless peon.
