/lit/ - Literature

>>17402295
>We live in global poverty!!!
No, we do not, you fucking loser. We live in an advantage where most human beings live above the global poverty line, and therefore, have enough money to get their basis necessities. Capitalism has created an abundance of wealth for you live a long life. The only problem is you.

>>14440705
The surplus value doesn't manifest as any actual real resources in the real world for one.
Getting your surplus value back is like getting air back.

>>14440707
>if you know about Piketty then you onow the argument I would make
How about you make the argument instead of relying on some academic to make it for you?

>Marx's point
What point?
Why would there ever be a socialist revolution if living standards for the workers keep increasing worldwide? Even WITH the inequality.

lmao fucking dumbass

>>14311936
so never?
>>14311963
How does it feel that the automation will just result in higher living standards for the working class and socialism will just disappear?

>>13961954

It is rather unfair to ask me by what measure and then immediately reject an objective measure.
Literally billions have been moved above the poverty line. This is objective fact.

> Resources are controlled by fewer and fewer hands.

Please provide a source or even just a clarification of this extremely vague statement.

>>13820349
yet progress continued
seems your refutation is refuted

>>13214469
its amazing to me how much your dying continent hates english culture so much. english culture has become so victorious, successful, and dominant, and continental culture so irrelevent, that you have to bitch about in english.

its amazing to me how an intellectual tradition that has produced nothing but miserable fucking failure and suffering for 200 consecutive years can somehow think itself more legitimate than proven successful ones.

>>11637516