• @masquenox
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    49 months ago

    You don’t understand how capitalism works?

    • @loxdogs
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      -29 months ago

      Well, you are getting paid for your work, by someone who managed to get the business going, all hard things aside.

        • @loxdogs
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          -19 months ago

          Can you please explain me than? Seems I was wrong all this time…

          • @masquenox
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            29 months ago

            Sure.

            (Just in case you thought I had forgotten about you.)

            • @loxdogs
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              09 months ago

              If workers want to, that could increase their professional aptitude to be able to maintain or work with new machines, making them more valuable and increasing their wages. If you are valuable you and your manager understands this - It’s in his self-interest to keep you on a workplace

              In objectivism, you don’t encroach on others right to live, so the last one is obscure

              • @masquenox
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                29 months ago

                You have never actually worked for a living, have you?

                • @loxdogs
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                  -19 months ago

                  I am doing it right now and changed to jobs, until I found a great place. I am living with my fiance rn in a flat, without parents. Before this, I changed two jobs, I was It Specialist(anykey) in Vet clinic and a packer at a pharmacy. Both places I didn’t like and now I am a system administrator at insurance company. I like what I am doing and people I work with.

                  Another example is my father, he changed his job less than a month ago. He found a better job, where they paying him ~30% more for less work. He wasn’t changing his workplace for 10 years, but he was getting more and more duties for the same payment. So I don’t understand why people complain about labour. If you are not forced to work under a threat of death, you can always leave. It’s your choice to stay.

                  • @masquenox
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                    29 months ago

                    It Specialist

                    Do tell - who paid for you to acquire the know-how that made you qualified for this role, eh? What’s the ROI for the people that made this expensive investment in your education?

                    my father

                    Oh yes… do bring more people into this conversation that completely bucked “rational self-interest” for your sake - I’m sure this will go really well for your argument.

          • Cowbee [he/him]
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            19 months ago

            Capitalism isn’t wage labor, it’s a specific mode of production by which individual Capitalists buy and sell Capital, then pay Workers wage labor to use said Capital to create commodities.

            If the entity is Worker Owned, it’s Socialist, as Capitalism requires Capitalists.

            • @loxdogs
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              09 months ago

              In other words, worker is getting paid for creating goods/services for entity owner(capitalist in our case)?

                • @loxdogs
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                  19 months ago

                  Yeah, but my previous take was about capitalism, so did I understand it right?

      • @masquenox
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        29 months ago

        How much did you pay your mother for having you?

        • @loxdogs
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          19 months ago

          Firstly, that’s rude. Secondly, the only possible way I can pay her back is give someone else another life.

          • @masquenox
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            9 months ago

            No, it isn’t.

            Did you or did you not pay your mother for all the services she has rendered to you?

            You can’t even apply Rand’s objectivist bullshittery to your own existence - yet here you are pretending you can apply it everywhere else.

            Put up or shut up.

            • @loxdogs
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              -19 months ago

              If you read about Rand’s philosophy, it is not a sacrifice to do something for the loved ones for free. Their happiness is your happiness, so it’s in your interest to make them happy. My mother never asked me to pay her back. I payback to foreigners and friends for their services. I don’t ask people to do something for me free, nor do something to others for free.

              • @masquenox
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                19 months ago

                not a sacrifice to do something for the loved ones for free

                Good job proving what an irredeemable hypocrite Rand really was. So far, that’s the only substantial thing you’ve managed to accomplish.

                • @loxdogs
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                  08 months ago

                  She wasn’t a hypocrite, she would also do everything for her loved ones and wouldn’t call it a sacrifice

                  • @masquenox
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                    18 months ago

                    she would also do everything for her loved ones

                    Soooo… no “rational self-interest” from Ayn Rand? It just exists as fantasy in her silly little books?

                    You don’t say.