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newuser1492
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: trendal]
#4281641 - 06/10/05 09:22 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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trendal said: Whats the difference of getting a paid vacation, or making a little more and paying for you own vacation?
There isn't much of one.
So what's the difference in making more to pay for your own year-long vacation and making less then getting paid even less during your year-long vacation.
Or, perhaps, is it the length of the vacation that angers you?
What do you think about professors? They get to go on a sabbatical every few years, I think, and I'm quite sure they get paid for it.
This is crazy talk. When I work for a company I earn vacation time based directly on my efforts. It is my choice to work for a company that offers vacation or not and my choice to find a salary I'm willing to take.
If the government pays for a person not to work it is a practice that is forced onto everyone in society. The government steals money from the working person who earned it through their work and gives it to someone who did not earn that money.
Guess you guys dont actually work so you wouldnt know how fucking tedious it can be.
It exactly because I do work and deserve all of the efforts of my work that I oppose such a system
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4281650 - 06/10/05 09:26 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Arp said: Your hi-tech equipment is rubbish.
You do realize that you just used a computer, the internet, and electricity to post that don't you?
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: RandalFlagg]
#4281659 - 06/10/05 09:28 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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He could have used not technical means, like getting his mom to post for him, who may not have anti technology sentiment
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4282619 - 06/11/05 05:54 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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This sounds great.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Learyfan]
#4282634 - 06/11/05 06:31 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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cb9fl said:It exactly because I do work and deserve all of the efforts of my work that I oppose such a system
What about those people with a lower pay? Don't they deserve it aswell? This is silly. "Efforts of work" is so subjective. There are people working there asses off for nothing, whilst some make bigtime $$$ for very little, using their contacts and so on. Is that system just?
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: RandalFlagg]
#4282650 - 06/11/05 06:46 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said:
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Arp said: Your hi-tech equipment is rubbish.
You do realize that you just used a computer, the internet, and electricity to post that don't you?
You can use rubbish can't you? *edit* I was talking in terms of production costs. The price we pay is just fictional and has absolutely nothing to do with the work-load that goes into each process.
Simple slavery, easy as that.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4282705 - 06/11/05 07:46 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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What are you saying? Are you saying that a computer isn't worth say $1000?
Prices are generally set by something called the market. The freer the market the more realistic the prices. The computer is worth $1000 not because of the amount of work required to build but rather the amount people are willing to pay.
You think people deciding to pay a certain amount of money for a product is slavery?
What about those people with a lower pay? Don't they deserve it aswell?
I'm not them so I can't say what they deserve. But I sure as hell don't have the right to steal from someone to reward someone else.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: newuser1492]
#4282736 - 06/11/05 08:10 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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The market is anything but realistic.
Here is an example: Your out of warranty computer breaks. It's a brand computer so you leave it in for a service doing the insurance-thing. Those brand manufactors can charge $1000 for an old motherboard, that way the insurance company wont find it worthwhile to do the repair and instead scrap it. This is a waste of resources imho. Your computer is not worth $1000 (which can be several hours of manpower). Think about it those are mass-produced, the production costs are minimum even the so-called science that got it there. There are manufactured needs that we could do without, but a way for the system to control people and get them to work. We are manufacturing crap and it's not realistic at all. Just a huge waste of resources! Keeps the monster growing.
We are building a pile of shit.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4282760 - 06/11/05 08:29 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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The market doesn't always have to do with the amount of labor required to build something. It's the amount people are willing to pay for it. One major cause of the market being unrealistic at times is due to government interference.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: newuser1492]
#4282762 - 06/11/05 08:31 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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But I sure as hell don't have the right to steal from someone to reward someone else
So do you think it's right to exploit people? What about companies moving to other countries to cut costs? There then can polute all they want and use child workers etc Are those child workers being ripped off in your opinion?
If someone over there will do your job for half the price, does that mean you are getting twice the amount as your worthy?
See its all fucking numbers which dont make any sense realy. A way for the system to exploit every single one of us.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: newuser1492]
#4282765 - 06/11/05 08:34 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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cb9fl said: It's the amount people are willing to pay for it. One major cause of the market being unrealistic at times is due to government interference.
Haha this makes me laugh! It's hard advertising for new needs that bring up the prices. People think they need it and work to get it. But what they are working for is just shit! They don't know better and should be educated.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4284161 - 06/11/05 05:43 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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You may not be aware but in order for just about anything to happen somebody out there is working. Now if they go on vacation for a year and some unemployed person that hasn't done the job as much/ever is now doing it any idea how the final product is going to be? Of course I'm sure in Scandinavia they have a plethora of skilled/expierence workers (you know doctors, masons, metal smiths) waiting in unemployment lines. So that leaves the unskilled workers and if any group needs a vacation less are those individuals. They are the ones that need to be learning a trade instead of living off the state.
Your assignment is to back away from you're computer and go out into the real world and see how the market place works. Go out and realize how everyone is trying to make money and grow their business no matter how big or small. Go see that if everyone just went and sat around nothing would get accomplished and that is not good. Go see that everything comes from somewhere and somebody put their time and energy into it. Do not, however, do all of that with someone elses money go out and earn it yourself first. Be careful though your attitude says that this will be new and painful for you so try it first in small doses.
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You make it sound that all this work we put into the system makes it juuuuust possible for everyone to be able to have a roof over the head and food on the table. The fact is that we are overproducing. Throwing tons of stuff away. Leaching on the "developing" countries.
I have seen too much of the market place. How a false smile can give you advantages. Something that one has to work days for can be given just with the right contacts. Is that just? How much of the working hours do you think are done for our basic needs to survive? We mass-produce shit! Alot of work goes into this shit, and if we would just stop all this shit then we who do the shit can help the ones producing food, housing, water systems, whatever. This would result in the possibilty for everyone to be able to slow down alittle
and get more free time beside the work. We are so effective now that very little effort can result in alot of resources. But do you want to know why shit keep appearing? Cause then we can be distracted and wont argue.
For a optimal society, taking nature & people in consideration this crazy wild beast system is very damaging.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4284798 - 06/11/05 09:46 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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I can understand why you are unhappy with the current system and that you feel many people take advantage of others. So tell me why do you think that a system where people (the government) have the power to take money by force if necessary from an individual will have altruistic intentions?
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: newuser1492]
#4285945 - 06/12/05 07:51 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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The free market is a breeding ground for greed & competition and does not promote inner peace in any way as far as I can see. Just look at people and how they act. I think it's the worst example of a way of life & what it does for our enviroment. Same time I don't feel a guverment is necessarly needed. Maybe in the transition, to clean the filth away. With the right set of mind I think you'll want to share and support instead of suspecting your fellow human of being a leech.
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Re: A year of freedome [Re: Arp]
#4286257 - 06/12/05 10:27 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Arp said: The free market is a breeding ground for greed & competition and does not promote inner peace in any way as far as I can see. Just look at people and how they act. I think it's the worst example of a way of life & what it does for our enviroment.
Examples, please? Also, are you aware of the pollution problems the Soviet Union had? Environmental problems are hardly unique to the free market.
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Same time I don't feel a guverment is necessarly needed. Maybe in the transition, to clean the filth away. With the right set of mind I think you'll want to share and support instead of suspecting your fellow human of being a leech.
Sharing is fine, and there's nothing that says you can't share within a free market. A free market means you are free to do as you wish as long as you don't coerce others with force or threat thereof.
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