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I don't pretend to understand all of this, but it's interesting. Economists or others who can help explicate?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/16/......economy/
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
So jubilee is still a dirty word? Rent = entitlement?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
It is clear to me.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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Rent = entitlement? Evidently the classic capitalist economists like Adam Smith thought so. It extracts from the economy without producing anything.
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It's interesting to think that in a society that clings fast to the ideal of private ownership, eventually there will be nothing for the majority to own. The trend is more and more towards paying rent to private corporations in order to carry on.
Not just rent for housing, but rent in the form of intellectual copyright payments for software, streaming--and here's the big one according to Peter Frase--the blueprints for 3D printing. When your car comes out of the printer, you pay for the raw materials and the copyright on the pattern. That is the extreme version of rentism: monopoly on the right to produce goods. It's an outlook that certainly helps to explain some of the current business trends.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
It all belongs to God and the Pope is Gods representative on Earth and so pay him the rent.
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