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men and women of England, how long shall these things be?
mayfair, london, uk Katılım Eylül 2009
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@JakobZaaiman @Lightstream01 @timecaptales Sorry, Proust is analogous to public executions?! Haha, I mean maybe the middle volumes are, but the first volume is very good and the last one wraps it up nicely. Also Lear is great and some of Joyce’s short stories are good (‘The Dead’ esp imo).
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@Lightstream01 @timecaptales Of course you're absolutely right: the canon, like moronic, stupid cruel orthodoxy throughout history (circumcision, public executions, religion, etc) will ultimately triumph.
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In the summer of 2000, as the Harry Potter series was quickly becoming a global sensation, legendary Yale critic Harold Bloom gave one of his most unpopular takes, calling 35 million readers wrong
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@IlonaVanski @DEhnts Sorry? ‘Demand constrained’? You mean we’re just too rich, we don’t have any unmet need, and people need to do more work to keep them occupied? I think we have unmet need.
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@DEhnts Yea even from a "selfish" perspective, migrant tax payments r irrelevant, what matters is how much output they produce.
And in a demand constrained capitalist economy, even if they didn't produce anything & were only living on transfer payments, that would still prop up demand.
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Fiscal-Libertarian take:
Net tax payers = good
Others = bad
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The @Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is out with a major new research study showing that immigrants, both legal and illegal, contribute significantly more in taxes than they receive in public benefits. And there's more: because immigrants (both legal and not) are such large net-contributors of tax revenue, they also structurally reduce government budget deficits.
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@ChrisPacia @RichardJMurphy How on earth do you think property rights pre-existed the state? Where exactly would you go to enforce your property rights?
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And you see in this post exactly why the left needs it to be the case that the state was created first before jobs, wages, money, contracts, and property rights.
Empirically that's false though.
Production precedes predation. All early states were born out of conquest and exploitation.
Things have to be produced first before the state can steal them to get revenue, which implies production in exchange existed before states.
And the archaeological record supports this.
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Is tax theft? Many people think so — and that belief shapes how we vote, how we treat public services, and how democracy functions.
In this video, I explain why the popular claim “it’s my money, why should the government take it?” is based on a fundamental mistake. Income does not exist before the state. Jobs, wages, money, contracts, and property rights all depend on government systems that come first.
Tax is not punishment. It is not confiscation. It is a macroeconomic tool that stabilises the economy, controls inflation, shapes markets, reduces inequality, and sustains democracy itself.
If you care about public services, economic stability, or democratic accountability, this is the conversation we need to have.
youtu.be/SK-PmfkViDE?si…
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@greatindoors2 @mushycrouton Well, maybe you have a high standard for transphobia and racism, then. I am pleasantly surprised. I haven’t encountered many racists either:
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@Realtommyrobbie @TiceRichard Or below. Granted, Albanians are a rare acceptable target, along with gypsies.
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@samziz @mushycrouton "And I haven't met many"
Are you going to continue to harass me when I've asked you not to?
Please go away.
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Being offline is wonderful.
It reminds you that the transphobia and homophobia you see on this site are not, in fact, views held by the majority.
They’re not normal worldviews.
Terfs rely on being terminally online because the real world does not affirm their bigotry.
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@greatindoors2 @mushycrouton I have a feeling this is a rather large number of people whom you consider transphobes, racists, and ‘religiously motivated bigots’, haha. Either that or you live in Brighton Pavilion.
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@samziz @mushycrouton Every transphobe I have met in real life, Sam. That many.
Read the words?
Please go away now.
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@greatindoors2 @mushycrouton How many people lol do you consider to be ‘racists’ and ‘religiously-motivated bigots’? Because, though most people do not hate transsexuals, very many people would be considered ‘transphobic’ by 2018-2022 standards:
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@CertifiedOmlet @cezthesocialist Yeesh. You weren’t kidding about the polls:
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@mushycrouton Every single anti-trans opinion I've heard in real life, and I haven't heard many, has come from a racist or a religiously-motivated bigot.
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk THEY DON’T LIVE LONGER, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE. They live shorter lives, and die younger. You are confusing yourself by using a complicatedly bodged statistic whose complicated bodging you do not understand, possibly because you ate lead for breakfast as a small child.
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@samziz @tonywestonuk Then why do they live longer in USA if you think they putting off going to hospitals?
Think.
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What a surprise.
Taxation is to shrink the size of the economy, so the government can employ those made redundant.
When you put up tax, this is what happens. It's unexpected to those who don't understand economics.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk This is the case for all these stupid statistics. GDP is probably the most outrageous one, but I stand absolutely no chance of explaining GDP if I can’t explain this. Suffice it to say that’s what America produces for its poor: statistics, premature death, and corn syrup.
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk Because, in the US, it is rarer to live to old age. Those who do are a small elite, who, like the king of England in my original thought experiment, can expect to live many more years. They are then multiplied to ‘standardise’ your age structure with that of civilised countries.
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk Ah, right, no, it’s nonsense. It’s not the death rate of all patients, it’s the death rate of patients classed as high risk, and the US classes more patients as high risk for reasons of (guess what) health insurance gaming: theguardian.com/society/2015/f…
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk That is a bizarre statistic. It depends on who goes to a hospital, doesn’t it? Though even then I’m surprised – I would have expected the opposite pattern, since EMTALA incentivises people in the US to put off going to hospital until almost dead. Let me have a look.
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk Because *it rewards you for having fewer people at older ages, and penalises us for having more people at older ages*. In effect, it multiplies your per-age prospects by our population, and ours by yours. (Not literally - it multiplies both by the average - but that’s the gist.)
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk It’s not about how many injuries we have, or how many you have. Removing ‘injuries’ (which includes fentanyl overdoses etc) makes the US look slightly less dreadful, but the thing that propels you to the top, and us to the bottom, is the age standardisation.
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@Inclamiente @JButtafoucault @cafreiman If we can teach them all just about enough by then – i.e. reading, writing, reasoning, maths, civics, maybe basic sciences – I’m not necessarily opposed to it. But further schooling should be possible for kids with promise who want it. They could study and work part-time.
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Capitalism is what ended child labor in the United States (From “Child Labor in the United States” by Robert Whaples)
fiat money@fiat_money
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@samziz @tonywestonuk Your responses are complaining that in USA there’re unusually large % of population who live longer than in any other country, using the same criteria…lol
Yes, socialized healthcare is a killer.
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk If you dare confront the actual death counts and age structure of the US, you might consult the Human Mortality Dataset. But I don’t expect you will, and nor would I if I were you. Make the most of what time remains to you. Love one another.
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@capitalism1 @tonywestonuk And that is exactly what the US does. It trades off more early deaths for better outcomes at the top end, and then applies those outcomes to the population structure of civilised countries where most people don’t die so young.
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@Inclamiente @JButtafoucault @cafreiman Also, 13 and 14 year olds weren’t considered children until the 1880s, when we, the British, decided to redefine them as children, and forced the rest of the world to consider them such (which we could do back then). The OP’s excerpt is about that period, 1870-1940.
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@TanyaTheWayward @SouthsideTilly Yeah, it was in the 1880s that teenagers (who are biologically adults — they can reproduce, though we are perpetually shocked when they try to) became legal children. We made them so after a teenage prostitution scandal in London. W T Stead (who died on the Titanic after eerily
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@JButtafoucault @cafreiman The need to survive. Children worked until the 20th cenutry normally.
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@anteo75 @schneiderhome The same thing is happening even in the cocaine sector. I have a dear friend who’s involved in it. It’s pretty grim:
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@schneiderhome It's slavery . No workers rights, no pensions no insurance no holidays just money for #UBER #DELIVEROO and the rest.
Predators. We must stop them and assure rights for everyone.
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The gig work business model — Uber, Deliveroo and the rest — is simple: push down pay and conditions.
It can be beaten with trade union organising and proper state regulation, as Spain, three Indian states and soon Malaysia are showing.
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