What does everyone here think of Marxism? Doesn’t Karl Marx make a good point about capitalists and the workers? I.e. the capitalist does nothing but sit around and give the workers only a portion of the value that they produce?

Maybe if you were Filc or Esuric this would carry some weight. I’ve actually been trounced by them, and learned things. I can tell you this tho; “I won a debate therefore my position is true” is highly illogical.

Except it isn’t, because I never signed the US Constitution. The few men who signed it presumed to speak on behalf of everyone in the United States, both living and yet to be born. That’s fallacious in the extreme, if you ask me. What you’re talking about is akin to me living next to a factory and…

Ok. Now show me one small tract of habitable land that can be traced from its original homesteaders to its current owner through abandonement or trade, without any kind of violent appropriation. You can’t. Perhaps you could respond to my argument, which addressed your issue with this. Except it…

Are you trolling me? No rights have been stifled, and no toys have been abandoned. The infant just isn’t aware of the possibility of other people having a claim. Non sequitur. It does not follow that because there is capitalism that whoever owns the most wealth decides who gets what. What’s your …

Yea. They know a lot about planning, but very little about coordination. You can’t plan your way out of the calculation problem. Yes, market allocation came before any technical progress. Factories in the USSR were almost exclusively build by the capitalist west in return for oil money. Before …

Except it isn’t, because I never signed the US Constitution. I never signed any contract making me a part of the legal property system. The few men who signed it presumed to speak on behalf of everyone in the United States, both living and yet to be born. That’s fallacious in the extreme, if yo…

Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm, I like quotes! I really really like quotes when people are talking past each other!

There is no one right answer to that question. It depends upon the property in question and the social norms. I made no such claim. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Though it is always possible that the plaintiff could forgive you. The legal status of property is necessarily a social affair…

What you’re doing here is called shifting the goalposts . In other words, you’re being intellectually dishonest (once again). See above. If all you’re going to do here is offer a red herring (another mark of intellectual dishonesty), rather than actually critique the fictional scenario I present…

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I don’t see how. An employer-employee relationship is an explicit agreement, is it not?

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