Labor is loved whether pool boy, math whiz, engineer or programmer. Do cool stuff. Maybe we can learn to love vibe coders some day.
Handstands are cool. I can’t hold a handstand for very long, but it still gets attention. Short handstands are vibe coding. Cool-ish, but not as cool as holding it longer.
I have no ethical qualms with those who make weapons. Horizontal communities need the means to defend themselves against external domination. The dilemma is, under capitalism, dominators employ weapons against those unable to defend themselves thereby realizing the idea of Hell on Earth.
Dream of justice. I also dream of winning the lottery.
I don’t know how anyone manages that much cognitive dissonance. The rules stated impose a heirarchy with billionaire > working man > stay at home woman > working woman.
How do you not feel like you are a monster to other humans?
The narrative was vote Biden and move him left. Biden did not move left. He enabled and contributed to genocide. Kamala actively stated she would continue Biden’s policies. She also said she would be “tough on the border”.
Should anyone in a democracy believe the words and actions of the candidates?
I talk to people about ideas like “keeping the full benefit of their labor power”, “cooperating with other human beings”, “no war but the class war” and “no gods no masters”. I’m awful at parties and fragmenting the left. Infighting is real. Never trust a ML.
Cats are better.
The Venture Brothers
As a wage laborer, I am chosen by a capitalist or their delegate, to do work for a wage. I can choose from a handful of places offering similar wages. The wage may allow me to pay rent on a place to live, transportation and acquire food.
If I do not take a job from the handful that I compete for with others, I will be homeless, without access to transportation and without food. For the wage laborer, capitalism is get lucky and find a wage contract or starve.
While working I produce enough to cover more than that wage. The capitalist pockets the excess of my labor. I live pay check to pay check. The capitalist buys another home. The extraction is in the exchange of labor for wages.
The means of production include the means to defend your community.
State power exists because of a monopoly on violence. Capitalism is a fine term to use since property rights are propped up by the violence of the state. The end game of capitalism is a monopoly on the means of production by an entitled few enshrined in property rights.
Amarchy means an end to domination by hierarchical power such as that foundational to capitalism. Instead people will organize horizontally power in collective communities. Keep your gun, toothbrush and fight for your community when domination is imposed. Better to live 10 seconds on your feet under anarchy than to live a lifetime in bondage under capitalism.
Are blue collar workers well paid? Here’s some data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state.
The data suggests that a $75,000 debt on top of rent or a mortgage would strap a families net earnings, but the pre-owned cost should be closer to $40,000.
In conclusion, debt sucks and over 5 years, everyone props up bankers.
The “1977 trinity” shows where personal computers were heading. Mr. Jobs was one salesperson.
CoulDn’t bE thOse saMe benevoLent leaDers “tHe onLy exiSting foRms oF Socialism” peoPle arE talkIng aboUt.
They have benevolent kings.
The aim is to establish communal horizontal power while living under existing power structures. An example is bringing neighbors the excess fruit from a harvest. The practice is common in rural communities. The magic is cooperation and mutualism. No bosses required.
I still need to provide binaries for Windows, so build and compile for multiple operating systems.
I love Linux. Deploying software to customer sites was historically challenging on Linux due to system dependencies. Containers alleviate most of those problems.
Hilbert’s Paradox of the Grand Hotel seems to be the thought experiment with which you were engaged with your math associate. There are countable and uncountable infinities. Integers and skip counted integers are both countable and infinite. Real numbers are uncountable and infinite. There are sets that are more uncountable than others. That uncountability is denoted by aleph number. Uncountable means can’t be mapped to the natural numbers (1, 2, 3…). Infinite means a list with all the elements can’t be created.
As a wage laborer, I trade time for a fixed amount of money to be deposited to my bank account.
As an employer, I agree to pay employees a wage based on some existing contract.
As a wage laborer, I can work harder to sell more product making more profits for the company.
As an employer, a productive wage laborer increases my profits since ((gross profit) - (fixed labor cost)) = (net profit).
The kicker is the productive wage laborer could keep the net profits, or split them with other workers, if not for the employer. The employer has trapped land, capital (building, tools, ect) and a favorable agreement with labor in the form of wages to fix costs. The employer then lives off the work of others.
Employers are parasites. The struggle between wage laborers and employers is a class struggle. Class solidarity is an acknowledgement of the parasitic relationship. Class solidarity, friend!
Layoffs are happening. Job numbers were overstated by 911,000. Let’s fix the job market by removing 85,000 workers.
Employers seem to hate wage labor. I look forward to a future where workers keep work done.
I am working toward reduction of heirarchy and increased worker control of the means of production. I have an agenda to inform as many people I know about anarchy as possible. This is probably propoganda, maybe. I do not have all the answers. We can do better than the current system.
Does propoganda require a state? I think we can push an anarchist agena a state. Talk to neighbors and coworkers. Meet them where they are without the alienating lingo. The “RusSian PrOpogAnDa” reaction typically is the result of a bad sales pitch.
Conflating organization with heirarchy implies those at the top of a heirarchy do work that produces value. Organization can require delegation, but any delegation should be instantly recallable by the workers. Heirarchy however places a manager over workers.
Instead of bringing the entire team, the team can ask John to talk to the propulsion team about how strong the fuselage needs to be for successful liftoff and reentry. The team trusts John has the expertise to get correct specifictions. If John messes up, the team can go talk to the other team directly.
By contrast, a manager with a MBA has no idea about making rockets. The manager has to loop workers into the project. The manager uses the worker like a tool to communicate with other teams. The manager gets paid better than the workers. The workers cannot remove the manager for poor performance. That is the job of the managers boss.
I have learned from StackOverflow that we should always ask if this is homework. Otherwise, the solution appears fine.