/lit/ - Literature

>>22604868
>but the real world is full of competition on different levels.
The competition that is not economical one. It's how railroads in USA got dismantled, so that cars would be sold better.

>Marx was describing a tendency. it can at the same time be true that the tendency is never realized perfectly
And it can be true, that we do not need any magical labor to describe capitalist cycles.


>>22604888
>people pay more for things they value more
No, you cannot. >>22600674
Because psychometrician fallacy, and because 'revealed preferences' are a very poor methodology.

>in a market where you are constrained by order of law
Yes, yes, and now we bring Santa Claus into this. Totally not the case, that 'the order of the law' is constrained by the lobby of 'robber barons'.

>where you are not allowed to kill the other guy
Again, you are not describing the real world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

>>21829295
>consensually and voluntarily buying out their competition
Which just miraculously coincides with some non-consensual violence that we will miopically overlook, riiight...

>If you resist paying for the shit you want the government will send men with guns to capture or kill you.
And in a truly free market capitalism would let you freely shit on your money debts with no reprecussions? Sounds like fairy tale hippy shit to me.

>Voluntary business transactions are not violence.
"Oh, nevermind the pistol in my hand. You are just voluntarily borrowing money from me, capiche?"

>consensually
You are living in a magical fairy land, where you think you have a choice and can consent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wegner#The_illusion_of_conscious_will

>>18545239
>Capitalists are always bound by law.
https://rwer.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/still-in-the-danger-zone/

O rly?