- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 8•11 months ago
Can someone explain to me why Dale Earnhardt is the face of anticonsumption/anticapitalist memes? Is there a reason, or just because it’s funny to imagine a guy that literally wears his sponsors on his sleeve encouraging class solidarity?
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 7•11 months ago
The people “struggling” to read this need to go back to children’s books. This is entirely readable.
- jackpot ( @jackpot@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
no it’s a mess
- tubaruco ( @tubaruco@lemm.ee ) 4•11 months ago
its so hard to read and i dont even think the analogy makes sense
Capital is surplus labor that has already been produced by wage laborers and extracted by Capital Owners. Capital owners then use the capital created by labor to extract more Capital via various financial instruments which exist to extract the value created by labor. Making it a cyclical loop growing more and more capital resulting in the vast wealth that Billionaires, corporations, and hedge funds possess today.
- tubaruco ( @tubaruco@lemm.ee ) 4•11 months ago
yeah, but i was talking about the analogy of having “living labor” and “dead labor”
Gotcha, here goes. Labor creates value. Capital owners pay labor a fraction of the value they create then hold on to the surplus value which was created by labor that has already been completed. Capitalists then use that ‘dead labor’ to suck up more value from ‘living labor’ that they are currently extracting surplus value from. Similar to a vampire sucking blood from living creatures, using the power it already sucked from a creature it killed from sucking blood from.
- JoYo ( @JoYo@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
i love it when socialists argue against the concept of debt and currency.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
Bullshit, I haven’t been sucked in years.
- quigat ( @quigat@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
In a ML system, how does labor aquire the tools and facilities they need to do their work? If they pay for it themselves do workers who join later need to compensate the earlier workers?
If bank loans still exist and the workers take one, they are giving some of the value they create to the bank. Again, do future workers compensate past workers who made that sacrifice?
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 1•10 months ago
Simple - don’t go ML
- Digital_man ( @Digital_man@lemmy.one ) 1•11 months ago
This is blowin my mind comrade