Message from @igorbloodscene

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2018-09-06 21:14:21 UTC  

What do you mean by "working" and what exactly is the standard for what economic terms legitimize which countries are or are not "working"?

2018-09-06 21:14:52 UTC  

Because in my opinion, no country or economy ever works because they are all littered with problems.

2018-09-06 21:15:06 UTC  

if you don't know what working means, look it up in a thesaurus/dictionary

2018-09-06 21:15:20 UTC  

What happens when I question the dictionary?

2018-09-06 21:15:27 UTC  

but 'working' means that you have economic mobility

2018-09-06 21:15:45 UTC  

Or perhaps a communist society could actually meet the definition of working under the dictionary?

2018-09-06 21:15:57 UTC  

that's something you don't have in a communist economy. that, you have in your country of origin, if it's not communist.

2018-09-06 21:16:19 UTC  

Care to explain deeper?

2018-09-06 21:16:34 UTC  

I'm not sure that I sufficiently understand your point...

2018-09-06 21:17:43 UTC  

Google definition of working: functioning or able to function.

2018-09-06 21:17:56 UTC  

Many communists would argue that communism can meet the definition.

2018-09-06 21:18:04 UTC  

okay, then your next job is to google 'economic mobility'

2018-09-06 21:18:44 UTC  

@Andrew The Meme King Memes are garbage tbh

2018-09-06 21:18:52 UTC  

Overplayed and trite.

2018-09-06 21:18:59 UTC  

@Seven Of Swords that hurts man

2018-09-06 21:20:04 UTC  

@igorbloodscene Under what system gets to determine or value if "economic mobility" is a factor of economic success if perhaps we could have other ways to structure society that may not value that specific aspect?

2018-09-06 21:21:21 UTC  

wot? economy as a definition, is not a result of capitalism. the market, and that people want to trade things, is a part of the human nature. I have knives, you have tables. you need knives, I need tables, we trade.

2018-09-06 21:21:37 UTC  

@igorbloodscene If you tell me to just use Google, I'm going to just use the communist arguments against what you vaule as counter examples against what you want me to look up in the first place lmao. Perhaps you need to put in more work than simply asking people to Google things... Not a very fruitful discussion.

2018-09-06 21:22:11 UTC  

you would want the government to regulate that? that is what communism does.

2018-09-06 21:22:32 UTC  

But under a market of exchanges, people do not barter. In your example, that is barter, not a market.

2018-09-06 21:22:57 UTC  

I tell you to google things because you want to define things. I'm not here to define things, there are commonly accepted ways to do that, one of which is 'google that shit'

2018-09-06 21:23:17 UTC  

Did you read my response? I'm not in favor of any government doing anything lol

2018-09-06 21:23:56 UTC  

a market is where you trade things, money (or anything that resembles a commonly accepted value) is just a means for that

2018-09-06 21:25:03 UTC  

on top of all these phenomenons a working society is built. I'm all for free market, that is not government regulated. if you bring up communism, I'll have to tell you that communism is a government-enforced distribution of the ceased means of production

2018-09-06 21:25:58 UTC  

so if you bring up communist arguments, I'll assume that you are in favor of a government or any other seemingly 'higher force' telling me what value my work has

2018-09-06 21:27:06 UTC  

secondly, this higher entity would want to decide to distribute the fruit of my hard earned labor AT GUNPOINT

2018-09-06 21:27:27 UTC  

taxation is a fine example of that btw

2018-09-06 21:27:53 UTC  

Ok... are you an ancap?

2018-09-06 21:28:30 UTC  

I'm a minarchist

2018-09-06 21:28:38 UTC  

just like that TFM guy

2018-09-06 21:29:37 UTC  

Ok... so there would still be a state in your idea of how you would want society to run then?

2018-09-06 21:30:49 UTC  

You say that you think that taxation is theft. Which means that you hate taxation, and if you suggest that there should still be a state, yet no taxation, your idea won't even get off the ground, or you contradict yourself.

2018-09-06 21:31:00 UTC  

```
Minarchists advocate for a "night-watchman state" that is not responsible for the education, health care, employment or transportation of its citizens, neither makes it any use of natural resources in its territory. All of this is instead held privately or publicly, but is never susceptible to any interference of the state, its law or its representatives. Minarchy is, of course, different from anarchy, since the latter term means a complete absence of a government with all services, including even law and security, done or exercised by people themselves.
```

2018-09-06 21:31:51 UTC  

How is that even a state?

2018-09-06 21:32:02 UTC  

That just sounds like anarcho-capitalism lol

2018-09-06 21:32:24 UTC  

And yes, I read the wikipedia definition already and it was pitiful.

2018-09-06 21:34:29 UTC  

And back to the previous points that I've made, just because I mention Marxian analysis of capital, it doesn't follow that I am a communist. There are many anarchists that find Marx's arguments compelling without succumbing to thinking that a state is the best way to deal with these issues.

2018-09-06 21:34:56 UTC  

so you're an ancap?

2018-09-06 21:35:10 UTC  

No... I hate capitalism lol

2018-09-06 21:35:29 UTC  

I'm not an an-comm either lol

2018-09-06 21:36:32 UTC  

I don't like the state either lol