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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

boiled down to "you worked on a thing, so you deserve the entire revenue of that thing", which obviously isn't true. Like, if your employer lends you a hammer for free, shouldn't he be entilted to some of the profits that the hammer creates?

Good god the layers on this

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I like to hit people with some variation of:

A couple years ago I hired a guy to patch my roof. Now I'm selling my house. How much of the proceeds should I give him?

People start twisting themselves in knots real fast with that example. They generally understand and accept home ownership even if they can't afford it but they simply can NOT empathize with equity holders otherwise.

Did you not pay your roofer wtf

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even scholars whose theories aged far better like Darwin and Newton are similarly unreadable

yeah those guys have been proved wrong a lot haven't they

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this is apparently the background picture to /r/neoliberal?

[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

I refuse to believe this subreddit isn't 100% start department employees.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Where's the Pinochet head? All the users on that sub want to be him.

[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Newtonian physics is famously the most accurate and developed physics model for objects of all sizes and in all situations.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

The argument goes "and other employees are also paid"

But this isn't what Marx actually argues, they are arguing against an insipid strawman