The new serfdom.
The company will provide you with food and shelter and you do what you’re told to do.
The ‘talented tenth,’ people who are clever enough to be useful, will be raised above their cohorts, but in most cases no one who isn’t already part of the ruling classes will be able to ascend.
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You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger’s serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.
He’s your ‘wise hermit.’
From Charlie Barnett
“My favorite position is 68. She does me and I owe her one.”
Actually, this guy needs to stop drinking and go on a diet.
And get a razor.
I’ll go further back in the Wayback Machine.
When I was very young I got a Disney book where Mickey and Donald Duck are in school. Donald tells Mickey they don’t need to learn to spell because when they grow up they’ll be able to buy typewriters. Donald thought that typewriters would automatically correct any spelling mistakes.
Yes, if the person doesn’t burn the message.
I can actually see the point of a typewriter.
If someone involved in underhanded business gets an email or an electronically letter, they might think there’s an electronic trail.
If the letter was hand typed, they’ll know it’s not quite as traceable
I’ve read that Putin’s security people use typewriters for just this reason.
And what exactly did you accomplish?
As far as I can see, absolutely nothing. You didn’t change my mind, and pretty much conceded that I was right since the beginning when I said there was no point in arguing minor issues like my use of the term ‘middle class.’
And you’ve shown that you’d rather swallow rocks then study up on a Socialist who won a lot of elections by building a powerful coalition.
Let’s take it back to the beginning.
Someone said that I should have used the term ‘working class’ instead of ‘middle class.’
I said that was pointless hairsplitting and a waste of time.
And now, apparently, you’ve decided I was correct and it is pointless hairsplitting.
Did I miss anything?
Also, for those who actually would like to learn something, here’s a link to LaGuardia’s wiki.
LaGuardia was so good that even the author of ‘Starship Troopers’ praised the [his words] “Socialist Mayor.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_La_Guardia
https://youtu.be/Plo6MfbgcsE?list=PLcvFO4lyuy_sW_3kEqdpK7mhdSKJ7NBUw
First, now you’re trying to move the goal posts. If you didn’t know who LaGuardia was you should have mentioned it right away.
Second, let’s jump to your latest comment and start from there.
If LaGuardia is irrelevant to the current situation, why is Marx relevant? He’s been dead longer than Fiorello.
You’re the one demanding we use antique terms, and chastising me for trying to update them.
Finally, everything you’ve posted has proved my first point, that there are people on the Left who will argue and argue instead of trying to build consensus
So, you couldn’t be bothered to take 30 seconds to search for something I mentioned, but I am supposed to fall in line and accept all your definitions and points of view?
That’s pretty funny.
That’s exactly the point I was making.
So, you agree with me 99% but will fight to the death over the last 1%?
Let’s take your last paragraph. There are plenty of kids who can hook up the PC, a video game console, and Grandma’s VCR and make them all work together without having the least idea of why it works. They know that this plug goes here and not there and that’s enough for them. None of them can tell a sine wave from a tsunami.
And you completely ignored LaGuardia being able to be a Communist and a Republican at the same time. He happily ignored the contradiction and got both to agree that he was the best man for the job.
That’s exactly the point I was making.
“Adjusted for inflation” is a pretty silly term. It might mean something in an economics class, but it’s nonsense if you try to apply it to the real world.
$1 million in 1960 would buy you an estate in Beverly Hills, a townhouse in Manhattan, a few luxury cars, and you’d have enough left over to invest and live comfortably forever.
$11 million today might get you a bungalow in a pricey neighborhood.
Two points.
First, you can cut out a third of the words in a sentence and still comprehend the gist of the message. ‘Proper nomenclature’ might be important in a college essay or a legal writ but in the real world people slur their words and mishear the replies and still manage to get the point across. Words aren’t numbers; any word can have a dozen different meanings.
Look at former NYC Mayor LaGuardia. Back in the day he ran on a Fusion Ticket that included Socialists, Communists, and Republicans? You could spent a lifetime trying to sort out the exact definition of what he was. Do you think Nazi Germany was ‘Socialist’ because of National Socialism.
Second, how much comprehension is actually needed? Do you need to understand the difference between alternating current and direct current to know when to use batteries and when to plug a device into the wall? Do I have to understand aerodynamics to buy an airline ticket? Does someone have to know every single position a candidate holds in order to decide to vote for them?
Holy genralizations yourself.
When did I say anything about the poor being the enemy of the middle class, or that we aren’t all at war with the rich?
If you’re going to put words in my mouth please order some chips and salsa to go with it.
It doesn’t matter if you wanted to be pedantic, you were.
Now we’re involved in a useless argument over terms.
I’ve made my point twice, and I’m not going to repeat it a third time.
I understand your point, and I disagree with it.
If you decide to continue, you’re proving my point; that you’d rather engage in an argument with someone on your side than step back and accept a minor disagreement.
I’ve watched people like you shoot themselves in the foot with useless arguments like this since I was in high school.
You can’t just say “Tax the rich.” No, we have to analyze every term and only use proper nomenclature. Heaven will fall if we call a Social Democrat a Socialist and the seas will part if we confuse an anarchist with a Trotskyite.
I’ve watched it for years, and I’ve never once see it help anyone actually win an election.
Now you’re just playing with definitions.
“Middle class” is the term most people use.
It’s funny that in the classic Libertarian novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” the rule free society only works because there are no guns and literally everything is controlled by a single giant computer.
Objectivism creator Ayn Rand ended up on welfare after she lacked the will power to give up smoking.
Need I say more?