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Not really, it satifies nothing for the people who are part of the gold coin brigade. It cost them money and they get nothing in return, no praise, no validation, no thank yous,
So acts done due because of social obligations are selflessly motivated. Hmm
@Khanclansith I think you underestimate the personal value.
If someone saves a man's life because he wants to get on TV I don't think that will really matter 100 years from now when that saved man's grandchildren are going to college, and the savior is dead with no one knowing his motivations. It'll be lost to time, but the impact of his good deed won't.
Yeah
Selfish deeds can and very often are good deeds.
Does it matter if the people who built Rome were selfish?
Buying a porsche is a good deed for all the people who supported making and distributing it.
The same thing can be said about Greed. the foundation of applied Capitalism is socialy constructive Greed. "I See, I want, I work, I save, I buy, I have."
I agree
I suppose you have to look at individual acts to see if they are in and of themselves petty, destructive, and/or deny others personal liberty
Marxist theory states that people should elimate Greed as one of the things needed to make a Utopia, but it can be a motivating factor that helps all society.
NPCs can't stop being greedy
How did Marx propose eliminating greed from the lumpenproles?
Haha marxist video game where all the items are given to you but then you are destroyed when you decline giving things to others
The only good games that came out of Marxist countries were puzzle games.
Tetris being the best known one
Hey, what about Pyongyang Racer?
Cheep rip off of Crazy Taxi.
There is a trend I notice, people confuse, Rare or Unavalible with Good. EG the US Shooter communities group think that Norinco carbines are great (Banned in the US) vs the Canadian's views, (good-ish for the cheep price!)
From what I've read the only good product Norinco makes is M1A receivers. One of them plus a M14 parts kit can apparently make a solid rifle.
But yeah, it's definitely a recognizable phenomenon. I think they're called Veblen goods.
Yeah, Norinco makes M1-7.62x39, and it has some flaws, but it is desired in the US because Norinco is banned in the US
Some people like em here because there's a series that, when they wear down, can doublefire
Which is super illegal but hard to detect normally, and hard to prove intent
Night all.
'Later
Are there any games that work in a Marxist way?
Maybe Pokemon with exp. share?
Tetris
Can someone answer me this question. Why do people think that the Jews are behind the attacks on white people and western culture? Why think that the Jews are the ones poring muslims into the EU?
A combination of paranoia and envy? Jewish culture promotes values which tend to lead to personal success and therefore Jewish people tend to end up in high places. Doctors, lawyers, professors, scientists, CEOs, etc. Instead of trying to understand the cultural reasons behind their attainment, some people just assume that there's some sort of conspiracy behind it.
Look at the Bar Mitzvah for example. That's the 'coming of age' ritual for men in Judaism. A lot of cultures with male 'coming of age' rituals focus on some physical ability. Jews read from a book and do public speaking.
In order to become a man they must demonstrate both literacy and the ability to speak publicly in front of their peers and elders. They have to prepare for that ahead of time in order to not look like fools. So that gives some idea of what Jewish culture emphasizes.
Another way to look at it is how many famous Jewish athletes do you know?
Thank you.
Now it's true that there were a lot of Jewish academics that participated in early socialist movements, but that's because a) there were a lot of Jewish academics and b) academics have always been overwhelmingly left leaning.
I don't know. Jews are as white as it comes. Outside a couple odd holidays and traditions, it's almost impossible to distinguish a jew from anyone else. Ben Shapiro is Jewish. And Israel is practically a western nation with some weird idiosyncrasies. It is a difficult argument to make when the most Jewish nation is also the most locally western.
The left's issues (think Corbyn) with Jews makes sense and they are dead serious about the whole thing. You'd figure people would figure it all out and decide "the enemy of my enemy" but somehow everyone misses these things.
I think it's because the societal elite are disproportionately Jewish (though not so overwhelmingly they would actually control everything) and populists tend to blame the elites. Or the alt-right are being edgy with their Hitler worship and taking on the anti-jew elements. The alt-right does have a weird thing with traditional western culture, which wasn't too fond of Jews. It could be any number of these.
My guess is that it's 70% edge, 29.999% anti-establishment and 0.001% actual anti-semitism. Honestly, It never really made any sense to me. I do see where people believe the cultural establishment in the west dislikes traditional western culture (honestly, that much is probably true). Actually, the Jew hate it's very counter-productive. It becomes hard to point out how incestuous and closed the media is without people making nonsensical allegations you're some kind of closet anti-Semite (as happened to Elon Musk).
What do you mean by 'You'd figure people would figure it all out and decide "the enemy of my enemy" but somehow everyone misses these things.'?
I assume the alt-right is against people like Corbyn (this might actually be incorrect--according to the Nation, Richard Spencer has gone full communist lately). I also assume that the alt-right isn't too fond of Radical Islamists.
Jews aren't liked by either too much. You would figure the alt-right would want to protect the people they are mutually against.
But that clearly never happened.