Recent content by Sneed's SeednFeed

See above regarding conflating productivity, efficiency and profitability. Facebook is profitable despite the fact a lot of its revenue comes from metadata mining and ads.

Stop conflating efficiency with profitability in a historical context. They're not the same terms, and what is efficient or profitable changes as technology develops.

I wonder where slavers are located if not within society. So does that mean you think that capitalists are parasites siphoning off the surplus wealth of the labourer that impoverishes society as a whole when our productive capacity would be greater if we were freer? Because I'm reaching for my...

That's not strength, that's what we call 'luck' and also 'racism'. The Nazis burned plenty of books and persecuted impressionist artists because they thought it was a degenerate culture but because under their race science they thought the English more 'aryan' than others and because they...

I agree, but the point was relative to superexploitation and its benefits. Besides, I was precise in saying 'a large sum'. Aristotle is one of many (and his contributions to logic are very useful indeed, beyond the proclivities stated) but my point was that the Greeks benefitted from slavery in...

Portugal's doing pretty damn well post-recession. They've effectively rebuilt and are now enjoying quite a few social freedoms (in part financed by former imperialist wealth and the Salazar regime's colonialism, though in fairness it's also because they have a healthier democracy ever since they...

Not nearly as much of Brazil is developed like the US is, and Brazil was a colony for most of its history that meant all of the wealth went back to its colonial masters in Portugal (and after then, being saddled with colonial debt). Unlike the US, which had a more internalised economy, the...

When you have a large and succesful movement about conscience and reform then you have to create new heights to try and find reasons to be uncomfortable about it when you're already a non-socialist to own the libs. God forbid people have specific grievances, it must then be about feelings. God...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II Like this one?

Like, seriously, that's your criterion? That the Greek empire eventually fell? Nevermind the fact that their texts and ideas were spread far and wide across the mediterranean and the middle east and contributed immensly to the Islamic Golden Age, to the development of all modern sciences and the...

I'll take "what was the Eastern Front?" for $100 Alex.

What's his opinion on rap though?

Your church thinks otherwise. If you think stating the obvious contributions of Greek society to the world is fetishism then you need to read a book on the history of any science or philosophy and see the dedication it has to them. I'll also assume you're done with this two-faced and racist...

It has this de-literacy field where you can feel the neurons that allow you to read slowly wither away and die.

Education is commodified and made scarce when there's a system of arbitrary of actual scarcity. It was efficient and is still efficient up to a point, but we're capable of a more productive enterprise that doesn't impose such limits on people when they're otherwise capable of doing so. Anything...