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Are You Really Free Under Capitalism?
I think we're headed towards something communistic like it or not. I don't think capitalism is much of a thing without massively unequal peoples, and I think if that doesn't do it, automation will. All those poor as fuck Chinese people and from wherever else are all tied up in your capitalism too, and probably not so enthusiastic about it. it. It's easy to be enthusiastic when some other poor fuck is doing 240 times your work. 
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@Greyparrot
Do you understand my point about capitalism? I just think it's interesting. It's a simple point, I think. 
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@Greyparrot
Completely besides the point.
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@sadolite
I went on a date today with a hot 27 year old with a 250 g's horse. She'll be riding me this weekend instead of her pony. I ain't no beta male, sado. I'm pure bred stallion lol. 
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I just did some math. If Elon Musk makes 16 million dollars an hour as reported,  that's the man-hours of building a pyramid he's buying for every single hour worked. 
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Of course you're not getting your exact 241, there's a lot lost in translation, the billionaire's cut of course. But you've been getting a lot more than you're worth. There's no two ways about it. This is what capitalism is and always has been. 
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@Greyparrot
That was an American minimum wage buying power. If you're on 100 dollars an hour, it jumps up to 3000 man-hours. Things are gonna equalise someday and capitalism is gonna look very different. No 4 years of college affords you 3000 man-hours for your 1 hour.
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I bet if you went on a dating site you'd pull a hot little thing looking for a daddy sadolite. Might cheer you up a bit. Stick it to the wife. 
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@sadolite
I'll have kids at 45. With a hot 28 year old. 
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I was dating one cutesy girl recentlyish, she only just out of a very long-term relationship. I'd had sex with more people in one sitting than she'd had in her entire life. Didn't work out.  
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Sex is wild out here these days tbh. It's rare you meet a girl my age hasn't had sex with at least 50 guys. Not that I mind tbh, I'm usually worse. I fall for girls just the same. 

My old man marvels at this tinder hook-up shit. What's wrong with it in the slightest. 
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No man wants to marry a used up worn out old woman who has been rode hard and put away wet. 

Men are adapting, why buy the cow with the demeanor of a bull when you can get the milk for free.
I dunno what Youtube channels you've been on sadolite but this is the funniest shit I've ever read from you lol. 
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Are You Really Free Under Capitalism?
Don't get me wrong now. Capitalism is a vehicle for wealth creation and technological advancement like no other. But it is because of this grand game on how we differently value our time. That's mobilisation of the masses in the most insanely massive sort of way. Imagine that you're getting 241 man-hours for your minimum waged hour of work. Imagine what a billionaire or corporation gets. And we the moderately wealthy police it and preach its virtue, it's got the backing of nations and armies even, and it won't last. Your hour of work isn't worth 241 of someone else's. 
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Some people work for as little as 3 US cent per hour, often more than 100 hours per week in conditions of poor air quality and extreme heat.
Your American minimum wage of 7.25 dollars is buying you 241 man-hours. Enjoy it while it lasts. 

This is the backbone of capitalism. 
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@Greyparrot
You probably don't need  over a tenth of the stuff you have to be happy.
I don't.

Is it scammery that I took all my unemployment money and shorted against the stock market? Maybe, but nobody forced the taxpayer to pay me for sitting on my ass unemployed. Right?
I make way too much money for what I do and I wouldn't do it for a penny less lol. 
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@EtrnlVw
We had a few chats on DDO back in the day, I was probably under a different name. I thought you were a cool guy then and I think you're a cool guy now tbh, just so you know. 

I'm gonna skip the god talk though, it's embarrassing for me lol. 
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Are You Really Free Under Capitalism?
I put in a somewhat busy 40 hours a week. I don't think it affords me what I've got.
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Are You Really Free Under Capitalism?
I'm not sure why everyone's getting so mad, capitalism isn't going anywhere. What else is there? It was the natural course of things, before anyone could have ever dreamed of something like central planning. We bartered, then we made money, and then all this convolution followed, organic as anything, and it became "capitalism." And most of it is pure scammery, of course it is, anything to move money from the other guy's pocket into yours, but what else is there? And will we dismantle what we have for it? No need to argue, really. McDonald's would be closed down a day and we'd want back. 

It's not freedom though, it's strata. Nobody works in a sweatshop without feeling trapped. The rich are grossly rich and the poor are miserably poor, and that's the way it's got to be, really, otherwise your 40 hours a week won't buy you much. There are people living on nothing making all this shit for you, in case you forgot. Your shoes, your clothes, your electronics. How many of someone else's hours are you getting for your 40? It's strange to think about it. And apparently Chinese clothing manufacturing wages are set to be about on a par with Eastern European wages by 2030. What does that mean, then? You'll get less of their hours for your 40, that's what. Well, you'll be a little more naked, won't you? Sure, you're sitting pretty now, but for how long? This is capitalism. All this time there's been a bunch of poor people making our shit. What happens when they're not so poor anymore? Interesting question, I think. 

I think there's interesting times ahead, honestly. I think automation has a spanner thrown in the works already. No 40 hours for you, how does that work out, eh? We'll be dancers and whores all, I guess. What claim will we have to anything when the whole thing's made by robots, after all? And all natural enough, profit and margins and whatever else, eventually we won't be paid at all and expected to buy things. Or the whole thing falls down. Can someone figure that out for me? Robots and the Chinese. They're coming lol. 
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Why do low trust societies have higher crime?
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@zedvictor4
Have you ever seen the wild eyes on a goat staring at a bodhrán?
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What is love?
Some heartwarming answers and posts inside here haha.

I'm good, Lemming. Thanks for asking, buddy.
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Why do low trust societies have higher crime?
All the world's a stage and we're all taking cues from everyone else. If you're scared of the dog, you will be harried by the dog. 

It still all starts with some cunt being untrustworthy, though. 
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This got funny haha.

congrats on 5k btw oro, think you distracted everyone with your tricky piece of trivia. 
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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Mafia [SIGN UPS]
Also Fullmetal Alchemist is the only good anime. 
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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Mafia [SIGN UPS]
There's plenty of good mafia setups that run with 7 and 8 just saying. It's easier reading that way too, although I'm not sure what themes would do to a game of that size. 
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@Intelligence_06
Five Thousand spelled out is the largest number with no repeating letters. 
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@Greyparrot
I can't be sure.
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The determinism syllogism
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@3RU7AL
CONSCIOUSNESS IS (EITHER) CAUSED (OR) UNCAUSED

(IFF) CONSCIOUSNESS IS CAUSED (THEN) IT IS NOT "FREE"

(IFF) CONSCIOUSNESS IS UNCAUSED (THEN) IT IS NOT "WILL"

I'll give it you. Either way, we're here.

At final judgement, should it come to that, I'll take responsibility for my choices.
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Greatest country today
Those two lads are actually legends, concerts full of people chanting "Brits out." Then they're snubbed by pretty much all mainstream media for it, a damn shame tbh. 
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@thett3
Not old people. My grandparents on my dad's side didn't speak a word of Irish. There's lot of regions and towns though where Irish is still a first language. 

We got gaeilgeoiri rappers and all: 
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@Bones
It kinda does. Human consciousness easily resembles the singularities of physics and mathematics. The whole world is inside your head. 
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@ebuc
You're a good lad, ebuc. 
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@thett3
My mam's side of the family is from one of the Gaeltacht regions and all my aunties are Irish teachers. I'm fluent in comprehension, but I've to think too long to speak it and all my tenses and whatever else are a muddle even so. It's a romantic idea for me tbh, one day I'll sit down and learn my tongue, I'd love to read Mairtin O Cadhain's Cre na Cille too, the plot of it is a grave plot, quite literally haha. Said to be Ireland's true greatest work of literature. But history's a funny thing, eh?

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What is love?
I'm feeling like a bit of a dog today, but. I always think, so in the wide open world, most animals die of the cold. Most animals have multiple offspring too, because the most part of them will die. And so that's the majority of life, weak, crawling, dying things, cold and alone, crying out in the night to who knows what. In Ireland, too, during the famine, infanticide was our biggest crime. Newborn children would be left on the side of the road, because it was another mouth to feed, and that wouldn't do. Sheep stealing, then, was runner up, sensibly enough. Noble creatures, love and morals and right and whatever else. Between the aches and the pains and the orgasms, I do like a cuddle every now and again. To be in it with someone else, I guess. I'll have kids someday, and who knows what that's about. Out of pure boredom, probably. Some people have a belly full of belief, and I'm envious lol. 
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Wylted is an agent of chaos, and I respect it greatly. I also love the nonsense in it all, and resent no one seeing the world for other than what it is. 
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@thett3
The Irish word for Frenchman is "Francach." The Irish word for rat is "francach."

I don't know what's going on there tbh but I'm not mad at it. 

"Black man" is also "fear gorm," which means "blue man." "Fear dubh" means the devil in Ireland. 
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Mccafee is found dead from suicide after declaring he will never commit suicide
This is one of the coolest dudes who ever lived tbh. 
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No poster has ever more obviously been a virgin. 
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You guys are funny.
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It's my opinion that tyranny is a third world phenomenon only these days. Capitalism has killed it in the first world. We're all bought and sold by Apple and friends now, for better or worse, and it's just far too delicate an infrastructure to go moving armies over. There's no statesman can offer anything against what we have anymore, the lever of tyranny is scarcity. 
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Site currency tracker
The council has spoken. 
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New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to be first transgender athlete to compete at Olympics
I did tell you to make what you like of it. 
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@bronskibeat
Or maybe we let women be women and men be men and avoid the whole muddle. You're playing a game of backwards steroids here. It's fun and new, sure, but banning steroids is easy. 
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I truly believe the Irish to be the ubermensch. If god was a man, he'd be Irish. 
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If guns are outlawed and become uncommon, then shooters and westerns become science fiction and fantasy, and those are for gays. 
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450th place on the debate leaderboard
Become a trans debater and addle puny woman brain.
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@bronskibeat
You're deciding upon whether a person can compete or not depending upon any advantages they might have or not have. Before they've run at all, if it were running, for example.

It's very silly. It's the outcomes of performances or competitions being decided by a committee. 
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I reckon if the trans woman is hot and might be fun to watch play, let them play. 

With strict tucking rules. 
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@bronskibeat
Your compromise sounds like match fixing. Make what you like of that, but it's silly.
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