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CountDeMoney

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 06, 2016, 06:53:44 PM
Nah he's just crushing on this Greek breitbart "reporter"
Give it a few months, he'll move on to the next one.

This is true.  He is given to his transparent and shallow crushes, in all their short lifespans.

Ed Anger

His next crush will be Bob Beckel.
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Jacob

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2016, 06:32:19 PM
Because they need capital, duh.

Heh... I accidentally only posted the first half of the comic... that wasn't the punch line   :blush:



...

And just to clarify that it's not particularly a Marxist silly comic but a Philosopher silly comic:




DGuller

 :hmm: Jacob has mastered the art of gotcha.

Admiral Yi

Still doesn't understand capital is needed in production.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Jacob on June 06, 2016, 07:08:47 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2016, 06:32:19 PM
Because they need capital, duh.

Heh... I accidentally only posted the first half of the comic... that wasn't the punch line   :blush:

:lol:  I figured it was just your usual, run-of-the-mill Marxist gag.  "Who's on first?"  "Labor."

Jacob

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2016, 07:15:08 PM
Still doesn't understand capital is needed in production.

I think the gag is more the idea of having communist philosophers as management consultants in a company run by Ayn Rand, rather than to make a didactic point :)

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Jacob on June 06, 2016, 07:33:27 PM
I think the gag is more the idea of having communist philosophers as management consultants in a company run by Ayn Rand, rather than to make a didactic point :)

I got the impression the gag of having communist philosophers as management consultants in a company run by Ayn Rand was to make a didactic point.

Notice that all the good lines go to the pinkos.

Jacob

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2016, 07:41:01 PM
I got the impression the gag of having communist philosophers as management consultants in a company run by Ayn Rand was to make a didactic point.

Notice that all the good lines go to the pinkos.

Okay maybe you're right :)

Habbaku

The lines are direct rips of Office Space lines.  I think the writer was going more for the references than anything else.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

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alfred russel

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2016, 07:15:08 PM
Still doesn't understand capital is needed in production.

They may have understood that--but they were limited by the early to mid 19th century European perspective on who controlled the capital. In those days, people born into certain privileged stations would control the capital, and it was difficult to see why they should reap the rewards of returns generated on the capital when their only connection to how the capital was generated was found somewhere in their genealogical tree.

It isn't like today, when people of means include the likes of Donald Trump and Paris Hilton.
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There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

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DGuller


Admiral Yi

Quote from: alfred russel on June 06, 2016, 08:43:19 PM
They may have understood that--but they were limited by the early to mid 19th century European perspective on who controlled the capital. In those days, people born into certain privileged stations would control the capital, and it was difficult to see why they should reap the rewards of returns generated on the capital when their only connection to how the capital was generated was found somewhere in their genealogical tree.

It isn't like today, when people of means include the likes of Donald Trump and Paris Hilton.

Except it was the rise of the merchant and rentier class in this time that spelled the end of the land-owning aristocratic ascendency.

And even if were to grant them that excuse, the same doesn't apply to the writer of the cartoon.

CountDeMoney

Don't worry, they will get theirs in the end.  It will probably have to take body bags, but that's merely addition by subtraction.  The money changers in the temple can appreciate that, what with their adoration of numbers and all.



Oexmelin

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2016, 08:47:31 PM
Except it was the rise of the merchant and rentier class in this time that spelled the end of the land-owning aristocratic ascendency.

Where did that happen?
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