Reading Capital, continued (thread #2)...

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PinkoCommie
09-28-2009, 06:17 PM

It was not insult to say that you needed to disentangle what you thought he meant in his reference to time from your, yes, very good next couple of sentences.

If there were any evidence that you were and are confused it is the balance of your post above.

Perhaps the other guy can help if you can resist making some wildly off the mark assumption...

Barter ain't selling. Axes did exist for millenia before commodity production.

Anyway though, nevermind. You obviously are not open to having even a part of this discussion with me.

Fine.

Keep on pitching. You were doing just fine, absent the innocent confusion that you chose to follow up with utter confusion. Must be that pesky handle I have now. Someone else wrote a whole trolling OP about it...

My apologies.

Really.

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Kid of the Black Hole
09-28-2009, 07:42 PM

you may not like the idea, but at some point quantity blurs into quality. Produce 1 million widgets and its damn sure true that the character and nature of what you've produced is different than if you produce 5 units.

It is no longer a question about the need for widgets but instead about the potential for exchange those widgets contain.

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PinkoCommie
09-28-2009, 07:56 PM
But I do want to reiterate that I was being sincere both in my first post and in the second one when I apologized (*for not insulting you in the first place).

Not sure what has you so incapable of grasping that, but it ain't me or the subject matter of the thread.

What does that leave?

You may want to back up to the thread "What is value?" so as to commence at the beginning of the exposition.

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Code_Name_D
09-28-2009, 08:02 PM

Depends on the population that is consuming the widgets. One million I-pods being sold in Kansas, a population of 2.8 million. Or how about we only sell those in just the city of New York with a population of 8.3 million.

So no we have two naked nuts dancing on the field thinking they hit home runs.

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Kid of the Black Hole
09-28-2009, 08:05 PM

except for the biggest issue you choose to overlook..not one I-Pod or widget is produced out of a concern for need. So then what, Code Man?

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PinkoCommie
09-28-2009, 08:14 PM

Um. OK.

Take the last word.

Wow.

You can't make this shit up, folks.

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Kid of the Black Hole
09-28-2009, 08:20 PM

I am saying that when a company decides to produce a million widgets/I-Pods they could give a shit how many people "need" one (or want one). They are produced entirely on the basis of what they can be sold for.

Not one shareholder in Apple has stock options that are payable in I-Pods

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Kid of the Black Hole
09-28-2009, 08:22 PM

the Code Man posted some Star Trek fanfic and I attempted to help him with a few clerical mistakes (ok ALOT of clerical mistakes). He simultaneously shit a brick and popped a blood vessel.

You've been forewarned..

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Code_Name_D
09-28-2009, 08:27 PM

Oh, I see. They don’t share YOUR morals. I can see where that might be a problem when you have delusion of moral superiority.

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Code_Name_D
09-28-2009, 08:29 PM

(He probably thinks I can't hear him.)