Tim Sirovy

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

2.5 minutes of Democrats calling for the use of political vioIence It's on them

Meet Corinne Baum, a teacher at The Children's House in Cincinnati. She posted a video talking about how sad she was that she woke up to the news that Trump WASN'T ass*ssinated. This person teaches your children. You can contact the school here: (513) 898-3400

@kenklippenstein There’s a manifesto you blithering imbecile

A Wisconsin brewing company, Minocqua Brewing Co., is now facing widespread calls to have its licenses revoked after they posted a message celebrating the attempted assassination of President Trump before quickly deleting it. Let’s make their phone number and email useless.

**Correcting the record on the facts:** There were no successful assassination attempts on Barack Obama during his presidency. Multiple plots and threats were investigated and led to arrests/prosecutions (e.g., the 2008 Denver plot and Tennessee white supremacist case were foiled before any action). The only case charged as an *attempted assassination* was Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez in 2011: he fired shots at the White House (hitting windows) while Obama was out of town in California. He was convicted and sentenced to 25 years. No attempt involved gunfire or direct action while Obama was present. Claims of "at least 11 attempts" (as in the post you're replying to) count early-stage threats/plots as attempts, which stretches the term. The distinction matters for accuracy.

All I know, is that I’m on the side that doesn’t kill anyone, nor celebrates the killing of anyone, nor fantasizes about the killing of anyone... …just for winning an election That’s what side I’m on.

@KamalaHarris You literally said BANNING gerrymandering was a top priority for you… All you people do is lie.

CNN's @ScottJenningsKY on Virginia's Democrat gerrymander: "Virginia had -- literally had the fairest maps in the nation. They had a 6-5 map, six Democrats, five Republicans. In terms of proportional representation, they had the fairest map in the nation. That was drawn, by the way, by an independent commission that the voters asked for just a few years ago. Now they will have the least fair maps in the nation. And I'm not surprised that the yes vote won. They had all the money and all the lies. And sometimes in politics, when you got those two things, you can put something over the line, even something as egregious as this. This whole thing has driven Spanberger's approval ratings down into the toilet. She lied to the people of Virginia. They had to write a ballot question that was a joke. They drew maps that were a joke. Now you're going to have huge chunks of rural Virginia represented by 5 or 6 Democrats who all live in Northern Virginia, within about 15 miles of each other. It's a complete joke. Everybody knows it. And there's a reason that all these national Democrats and all their money came into Virginia, because, you know, they don't really care about the people of Virginia. They just care about power."

🚨 TRUMP JUST WENT BERSERK ON THE WSJ "An IDIOT on The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board, named Elliot Kaufman, just wrote an Op Ed entitled, “The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker.” Really? For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me — And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters" 🔥 "Their Country is an Economic Catastrophe, that is hanging by a thread. Barack Hussein Obama gave them 1.7 Billion Dollars in “Green” Cash, flown in by a Boeing 757 to their leaders, and Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in order to help them on their way to a Nuclear Bomb." "Other Presidents did nothing to stop them, a BLIGHT on the Office of the Presidency! But despite all of this, I have a MORON on the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal writing about me being taken for a “sucker.” Iran certainly doesn’t think so!" "Neither does anyone else. I guess Rupert Murdoch told him to write it this way, because The Wall Street Journal has lost its way, no longer required reading, just another failing political “RAG!”

Or Republicans could grow a pair and censure him.

Minnesota is so retarded We give hundreds of Billions of dollars to daycares and autism centers and they don’t verify they are an actual business or have kids or clients there Meanwhile, I’m getting my kitchen remodeled. My licensed and insured contractor had to get a permit to unhook and rehook my sink Then we had to have a city inspector verify the work The Government literally does more auditing on a citizen installing a sink than they do to verify that learing centers getting Millions actually have kids there

Liberals are going to HATE this! Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says he's made it very clear that he's offered EVERY member of Congress the opportunity to view UNREDACTED Epstein Files, with absolutely zero restrictions: "We have released EVERYTHING. We reviewed 6 million pieces of paper! We are not sitting on a SINGLE piece of paper to be released." "We said to Congress, any congressman can come in and spend as much time as they want, looking at everything unredacted." "And if you think we should be doing something, congressman or congresswoman, let us know and we will do it." "I don't know how this department or this president can be more transparent than saying American people." "Here is every single document in our entire database. And if we had to redact it because of victim names, anybody can come look at it if you're a member of Congress. No restrictions, unredacted." REPOST this absolutely EVERYWHERE. Your move, Democrats. #thinblueline #lawenforcement

@DrNeilStone 21 million unscreened, unvetted, unvaccinated savages entered our interior and seeded throughout our country you moron!

ANTI AMERICAN ANTISEMITE CHEERED ON AT YALE UNIVERSITY Tonight at 7:00 p.m. anti American antisemite Hasan Piker who said America deserved 9/11 was welcomed at the Yale political Union with a roaring cheer. You can check to see how other speakers have been welcomed. This is an unusually enthusiastic welcome. Our higher education system is poisoning the minds of young Americans.

Property tax is retarded. But more than that, it is a scam. How much property tax you pay is largely contingent on how much your local government(s) value your property to be. That value is likely close to what you must pay back to the bank to pay it off. If land and motor vehicles are taxed endlessly after the sale of purchase (or after the mortgage has been paid in full, which in a sane world would secure your actual ownership of private property), then why not go further and levy a property tax on clothes? Or your cookware? Or your sofa? Why not tax those endlessly after the sale of purchase? Why only continue to tax land and vehicles after they have been paid off? Firefighters, law enforcement, schools, roads, etc. can all be paid for from the revenue generated by sales taxes. If that for whatever reason cannot make up for the difference (especially with 340 million Americans distributed between 50 states, more than ever), all that indicates to me is that the local governments are spending too much money just like the federal government is.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just lit a fuse — calling for the complete elimination of PROPERTY TAXES nationwide. “Homeowners are basically forced to pay rent to the government just to live on their own property. That’s wrong,” DeSantis said. “It’s time to fix it.” Do you firmly Support this? A. Huge yes B. No

@OleTimeHardball Ron Santo

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