/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10132299]

>tfw I like capitalism

Books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.10132306]

The Phonebook
Instruction manuals
advertisements

[Anonymous No.10132316]

this is now fake idiots and plastic surgery bread

[Anonymous No.10132366]

>>10132299
Adam Smith

[Anonymous No.10132375]

Ayn Rand
The Audacity of Hope
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Whatever's topping the New York Times Bestseller list this week

[Anonymous No.10132376]

>>10132299
Feed

[Anonymous No.10132391]

>having an inherent emotional relationship to an impersonally existing economic system

[Anonymous No.10132392]

No Logo

[Anonymous No.10132394]

Marx

[Anonymous No.10132400]

>>10132299

LeCarre's Karla trilogy. The ultimate triumph of free market Western values over Russian communism.

[Anonymous No.10132442]

>>10132299
American Psycho

[Anonymous No.10132445]

Capitalism is the best thing mankind ever invented. After that comes flat screen televisions and drive thrus

[Anonymous No.10132466]

friedrich hayek
milton friedman
thomas sowell

[Anonymous No.10132468]

>>10132392
"Globalization is, like, pretty bad" - Naomi Klein

[Anonymous No.10132480]

[Anonymous No.10132604]

>>10132299
Nick Land

[Anonymous No.10132617]

the book of mormon

[Anonymous No.10132650]

>>10132299
Robinson Crusoe

[Anonymous No.10132655]

>>10132299

A Christmas Carol
The Jungle
The Grapes of Wrath

[Anonymous No.10132669]

>>10132468
"Shock doctrine is fine as long as I get to post edgy one liners" - You

[Anonymous No.10132674]

>>10132299
Basic Economics

[Anonymous No.10132682]

>>10132391
>impersonally
stay bluepilled

[Anonymous No.10132687]

Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.10132689]

the sound and the fury
the illiad and the odessey

[Anonymous No.10132726]

>>10132299
Ayn Rand is the bar-none greatest advocate of Capitalism that exists.
I posit that Aristotle, John Locke, and Ayn Rand are the 3 greatest individuals to ever walk the face of the Earth. My criterion being philosophy's unique capacity to mass-influence titanic amounts of people and that it undergrids every facet of our lives. She is the formulator of what I call the first "Meta-philosophy"; Objectivism. It is a complete, integrated, closed-system.

Ayn Rand's philosophy was the strongest attack on Communism, Fascism, and Statism ever witnessed. Her indentification of rational selfishness as a moral ideal is the best summation of the actual nature of existence into a concrete whole. Cultural Marxists are terrified of Ayn Rand as she represents the American Constution completed; a rejection of the primordial evil that is Altruism that the US founding fathers lacked. The ONLY thing (or one of the few things) they lacked. Epistemologically validated, metaphysically defined, and ethically expanded, Objectivism is the greatest threat Commie and Nazi Statists have ever encountered which is why they cannot even bear to have it discussed as a philosophy. Capitalism is the only moral system ever devised. And the best. And even the kindest. The only reason there is ever any doubt about the wonders of Capitalism is because it lacked a defensible moral base at it's outset. Historically cuckservative Republicans have tried to justify it on the basis of Altruism. To which it is incompatible and, make no mistake, rest assured that Altruism is the great primordial evil of the world. Ayn Rand's arguments for why this is so are adamantine-clad and unassailable.

[Anonymous No.10132768]

>>10132617

At one point in the Book of Mormon, property is held in common (3 Nephi - during and after Christ's visit to the Nephites), and a classless society is established.

[Anonymous No.10132770]

>>10132726
Ayn Rand didn't support capitalism. She just hated people.

[Anonymous No.10132772]

>>10132669
>Shock doctrine
>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.10132775]

>>10132770

[Anonymous No.10132788]

>>10132775
you're right seth mcfarlane. she was real capitalist right? that why nobody actually supports her ecnomic theories?
>>10132778
some sort of anarchic nuclear tribalism. Oddly enough The Fountainhead kinda reads like PR China

[Anonymous No.10132828]

>>10132788
You still haven't read her faggot.
Also what did >>10132778 say?

[Anonymous No.10132858]

best emma

[Anonymous No.10132927]

>>10132828
Reading Rand is what made me realized the intellectual wasteland that the right really is

[Anonymous No.10133069]

>>10132927
>Rand
>Right
If you had read her you would know that she attacked the notions of left and right as the useless anti-concepts they are.
You can only assert that's she's the right because you vaguely view Capitlaism as being on the right.
Why don't you outline your knowledge of her and indicate where you disagree my well read friend?

[Anonymous No.10133395]

Capitalism is the only ideology compatible with human nature

[Anonymous No.10133501]

>>10133395
This

[Anonymous No.10133608]

>>10133395
That's what makes it so bad.

[Anonymous No.10133699]

>>10133608
Greed is good my nig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJuySjCL5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qoSZ-dVmC0

This is going to sound arrogant and bombastic but careful with this 3rd link; It'll fucking hard-convert you to Pro-capitalist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTQqFGLDdJ0

[Anonymous No.10133702]

>>10133699
>It'll fucking hard-convert you to Pro-capitalist:
>A long-winded speech from a godawful book that spends far too long glorifying the absolute worst aspects of the human condition will convert someone to Objectivism

[Anonymous No.10133707]

>>10132772
>america has never aggressively intervened in other countries affairs
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.10133716]

>>10133702
Pursuing one's self-interests within the bounds of ones moral rights is a fundamentally good part of Human Nature. Capitalism is the only system that uses "greed" in a good way.

[Anonymous No.10133719]

>>10133702
No skipper this is D'ANCONIA'S not John Glat's infamous 3 hour long speech.
Far shorter. Watch it pussy.

[Anonymous No.10133722]

>>10133719
>John Glat's
*Galt

[Anonymous No.10133725]

>>10133716
>uses "greed" in a good way.
You're a sheltered faggot if you really believe that. Slit your wrists

[Anonymous No.10133740]

>>10133716
>Pursuing one's self-interests within the bounds of ones moral rights is a fundamentally good part of Human Nature
I don't even know how to fucking respond to this. Of course doing things within the bounds of morality is a good thing, but when a system allows for the rapid exploitation of people for the sake of that greed, it has ceased to become moral.

>>10133719
Did Ayn Rand know about that time when one of her beloved industrialists ordered a mercenary group to open fire on a crowd of strikers because the strikers didn't want to lose the right to, you know, have humane conditions?

[Anonymous No.10133741]

>>10133725
How the fuck does it not. Certainly capitalism is not perfect and there is room for corruption and the violation of ones natural rights like how the current system is set up for example, but that is true of all societal systems. Pure capitalism, where my rights end where yours begin, is the only moral and ethically just system and you have no room to argue on that point.

[Anonymous No.10133749]

>>10133740
A system that allows for exploitation is not true capitalism. They system in place today is not true capitalism, its corrupt as all hell, but that doesn't mean that capitalism isn't the best option available. There just isn't another way for people to help the 'greater good' while simultaneously pursuing their own self interests.

[Anonymous No.10133752]

>>10133749
>Capitalism is the perfect system but only if it's pursued by moral people
>Not true Capitalism
You do know exactly what you sound like, right?

[Anonymous No.10133757]

>>10133740
That man's classifier changes from "industrialist" to "criminal" in the act numbnuts. In a world of Rand's LfCap Minarchist ideal, an iron-clad standard of legality is in place by design to combat him.
I bet you're one of those morons that think Rand is AnCap.
Rand dismantled Anarchism and any notions that it could be married to Capitalism.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anarchism.html

[Anonymous No.10133760]

>>10132299
all of the books.

[Anonymous No.10133761]

>>10133752
Its not a perfect system. Not even if it is pursued only by moral people.
Capitalism doesn't have to be pursued by normal people it just has to punish people that breach the rights of others through courts or other such systems. Name a system that lets people act with free will without stomping on other peoples rights.

[Anonymous No.10133769]

>>10133752
What the chap should have termed it as is Laissez-Faire Capitalism. All the modern ills that are *misattributed* to Capitalism are in reality a product of Statism parasitical upon Capitalism. The Mixed Economy
To quote Rand in one of her interviews:
>"The regulations are CREATING robber Barron's. ""Capitalists"" with government help; which is the worst of all economic phenomenon".

[Anonymous No.10133773]

>>10133395
define human nature

[Anonymous No.10133775]

>>10132726
>populism

[Anonymous No.10133788]

[Anonymous No.10133825]

>>10133775
Wat

[Anonymous No.10133828]

>>10133760
Commies won't get why this post is 10/10 wit

[Anonymous No.10133832]

>>10133775
>philosophers are good not because of the content of their ideas, but because lots of people believe them

[Anonymous No.10133841]

>>10133707
>interventionism is something particular to neoliberalism
>>>library. Read something other than a longform Guardian op-ed for once. Klein can't write, can't think and doesn't know the first thing about economics.

[Anonymous No.10133842]

>>10133761
Anarchoprimitivism :^)

>>10133741
>rights
Not capitalist tbqh and they're incompatible


>>10133769
Nigga unregulated capitalism would be even worse

Unregulated capitalism fundamentally allows for exploitation. For example, if I own land you could be born on that land and forced to pay me for the pleasure of living there, and passage could be beyond your means. Just like that we're back to serfdom and it's all legal, especially if I have the force to back it up and hence make it legal

[Anonymous No.10133846]

>>10133757
Industrialist and criminal complement each other rather than being mutually exclusive

>>10133760
>his commune isn't publishing books collectively

[Anonymous No.10133850]

>>10133832
Meant for
>>10133825

[Anonymous No.10133854]

>>10132299
you capitalism guys think you're so contratian and edgy supporting the dominant system of power in society. its just sad desu, I wonder if when the revolution comes you'll still be a vocal proponent?

[Anonymous No.10133863]

>>10133842
>Anarchoprimitivism

[Anonymous No.10133865]

>>10133854
>when the revolution comes
*breathes in*

[Anonymous No.10133894]

White Noise
The Foundation Pit
Shoplifting From American Apparel
The Passport (Herta Müller)

[Anonymous No.10133914]

>>10133841
>not particular to neoliberalism
>therefore moral and justified

>a menstrual sciences freshman tries to argue by making completely unrelated remark with an ism in it

[Anonymous No.10133915]

>>10133850
You mean the reverse?

[Anonymous No.10133936]

>>10133842
Exploitation is an omnidirectional game.
Abso-fucking-lutely nothing wrong with "exploitation".
I love how argument-ending Rand quotes can be; here you go:

>"In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability. The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the “competition” between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of “exploitation” for which you have damned the strong"

>For example, if I own land you could be born on that land and forced to pay me for the pleasure of living there, and passage could be beyond your means. Just like that we're back to serfdom and it's all legal, especially if I have the force to back it up and hence make it legal
Impressive. That's a real cute example of FUCKING MERCANTILISM you've got there champ.

[Anonymous No.10133939]

>>10133846
Ok then; what activities inherent with the industrialist overlap with those of the criminal? Show me.

[Anonymous No.10133941]

>>10133865

[Anonymous No.10133950]

>>10133863
I haven't laughed this hard in long time.

[Anonymous No.10133959]

>>10133854
We think we're "correct" actually.

[Anonymous No.10134460]

Catch 22

[Anonymous No.10134522]

>>10132391
>"inherent emotional relationship"
What a pseud.

[Anonymous No.10134542]

>>10132299
>i like being a wage slave
>i like being exploited

just look up books on cuckolding or something idk senpai

[Anonymous No.10134556]

>>10132375
>Whatever's topping the New York Times Bestseller list this week

harsh

[Anonymous No.10134561]

>>10133773
he can't.

[Anonymous No.10134570]

>>10132299
go for the best seller YA novels, self-help books for mediocre salesmen and pop philosophy with walking dead pictures on the cover, as they are the embodiment of your beloved economical system.

[Anonymous No.10134583]

>>10132299
I don't know any books for that, but I love capitalism too. It's fair. If you provide for society and give society what it wants, then you are rewarded, but if someone manages to provide the same product/service but more efficiently and/or at a better price, then THEY will eat up the profit and the others will have to step up their game or go out of business.

I write books. The only way I will do well as a writer is if my product is good enough to where people will WANT to read it. A LOT of people. So far I have a few fans who enjoy my work and look forward to buying more, which is awesome. However, if what I write is utter shit, then no matter how much of it I write I will likely never be a full-time writer. That's how it SHOULD be.

God bless capitalism.

[Anonymous No.10134584]

>>10132394
My favorite libertarian thinker

[Anonymous No.10134590]

>>10134583
>but if someone manages to provide the same product/service but more efficiently and/or at a better price
then you use the power of the state to eliminate any viable competitors

[Anonymous No.10134597]

>>10134590
That's not proper capitalism and should be stopped. Just like if General Motors can't sell their vehicles, then they SHOULD go out of business. In the United States, anyone in any State should be able to get health insurance from any company in any other State. Competition is healthy and ultimately works for the consumer.

[Anonymous No.10134654]

>>10132375
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
This is the actual founding ideological text of American-Atlanticism

[Anonymous No.10134691]

>>10133699
lmao, not only is it pure ideology, it is completely historically inaccurate. Money and property are creations of the state, and always involved the threat of force.
Commodity currency(gold etc.) was invented by kings who wanted to quickly build an effective supply chain for their armies. So they paid their armies in "money"(special tokens minted by the government) and demanded taxes(payable only in the kings money) from the population. Now, the population be forced to go ahead and supply the army with whatever they needed in order to get "money" to pay in taxes. It is 100% a construct of the state and always has been. Adam Smiths "barter economy" has never existed.
Property is accumulated through force and theft, often with the help of the state. This is obvious if you have even a cursory knowledge of human history. The Enclosure of the Commons, colonialism, imperialism, slavery etc. are what resulted in the current property distribution. If you want anything like your "merit based", non aggressive capitalism to exist, start by paying reparations to the third world and previously colonised nations, descendants of slaves, commoners etc., and seizing property from all corporations that earned it on the back of the state(which is pretty much every single major corporation).
Even a 'freedom-to-rape-kids' nutjob Murray Rothbard recognises this.
http://left-liberty.net/?p=179

[Anonymous No.10134694]

>>10132316

[Anonymous No.10134901]

>>10132299
literally any book that costs money. no matter how anticap its thesis, the fact that the writer sells it for money undercuts said thesis

[Anonymous No.10134911]

>>10133395
Capitalism is literally unsustainable with the nature of the world. Eat another bag of chips though, and take out the trash 3 times a day you fucking, retard.

[Anonymous No.10134916]

>>10133716
Money is like flesh in your hands, when you pay you're a servant and when you're in pain you deserve it.

[Anonymous No.10135184]

>>10133842
your a buffoon if you think that Anarchoprimitivism lets actors operate within the bounds of their natural rights.

[Anonymous No.10135188]

>>10133854
>thinking the dominant system today is capitalism.

yeah okay buddy

[Anonymous No.10135191]

>>10133773
the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans.

[Anonymous No.10135192]

>>10133395
untrue, socialism is compatible with homogeneous countries

[Anonymous No.10135207]

>>10134691
Money is a medium of exchange you fucking dimwit. It wasn't invented by some fucking king in mesopotamia or some shit. There are plenty of other "moneys" that are not gold fucking coins. As long as the original acquisition of property is just than by definition wealth gained is just. Respiration are good too, but its very hard to determine who needs to pay what, how much, and to whom.

[Anonymous No.10135212]

>>10135192
except that socialism breaches ones basic human rights.

[Anonymous No.10135213]

>>10132306

[Anonymous No.10135217]

>>10133936
What a shit quote, loaded with assumptions like people at the bottom would starve in their own ineptitude, completely ignoring the nepotism that's certain in corporations, or that the man at the top contributes the most (which may be true initially but as time goes on the supply of capital will be dwarfed by what he reaps from the successful business, and by the very nature of investing being working smart rather than hard, employers will generally work the hardest further in the business' life) and that mental contribution is the only noteworthy type of contribution

And what's wrong with mercantilism (even though you're really stretching the definition to breaking point by applying it there)?

[Anonymous No.10135227]

>>10133939
>inherent
Imagine not being able to read and making up words when people haven't used them

>>10134570
This desu. John Green is peak capitalism

>>10134583
or they eat up the profit if that other person happens to have connections, or if they're better at selling themselves rather than having merit that's relevant to the position

>>10134584
This but unironically

>>10134597
Competition is not what corporations want and is not what rational agents would engage in

[Anonymous No.10135241]

>>10134901

>the writer sells it
>the writer
>sells it

[Anonymous No.10135250]

>>10134597

Except any corporation big enough will do everything in its power to undermine competition, including and especially using the power of the state by manipulating that one human trait "capitalist" like you claim is beneficial, greed. You exploit the greed of statesmen and you can manipulate the rules of the game. There will never be "true capitalism" because of the very thing that it relies on, greed.

[Anonymous No.10135270]

>>10135227
I wasn't joking, Marxian communism is really synonymous with "peak" or "total liberalism"

[Anonymous No.10135288]

>>10132299
Everything about communism, so that you can buy that bourgeois hipster identity and tag yourself as progressive. It comes with a full set of stickers you can brand your favorite themes as; bigot, antisemite, racist, white, eurocentric, homophobic, regressive and much more!

Available only for a limited time.

[Anonymous No.10135346]

>>10135227
>Imagine not being able to read and making up words when people haven't used them
Are you accusing me of word-salading? Fucking how?

[Anonymous No.10135365]

>>10135346
Your reading comprehension is unbearably terrible, stop posting anytime

[Anonymous No.10135385]

>>10135217
Not seeing a refutation here buddy.
"The person at the bottom" refers to the theoretical lowest possible. Not a class of "lowest people" which I'm sure you regard everything by. As ""classes""
Think a guy with downs working at McDonalds. You were just too dumb to grasp this meaning.

Rand does not "completely ignore nepotism"; her whole damn philiosophy is about attacking the mixed economy and Statism parasitical upon Capitalism. It is for wrecking nepotism she wants LfCapitalism.

>And what's wrong with mercantilism (even though you're really stretching the definition to breaking point by applying it there)?You're the one that is talking of mercantilism when you refer to serfdom in the manner you did.

[Anonymous No.10135411]

>>10133395
>>10133501
>>10133608
>for hundreds of thousands of years every single human lived in societies incompatible with human nature

[Anonymous No.10135415]

>>10134691
What this guy >>10135207 said and also behold some Bill Whittle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkXI-MNSb8Q

[Anonymous No.10135435]

>>10135411
>What is the Dark Ages and Roman and Babylon collapsing
And humanity ""lived"" by horrendous standards. Capitalism is what brought exellence

[Anonymous No.10135439]

>>10135207
>Money is a medium of exchange you fucking dimwit.
I used a microscope to take a look at money. I found no such qualities. Therefore money does not exist. Checkmate.

[Anonymous No.10135449]

>>10135435
Every system brings excellence and takes it away.
>Bread and Circus
Capitalism starved Irishmen and Germans fairly recently. The lack of starvation is not due to governments deciding to let nature take its course, but taking action instead with preventive methodologies. Hence the modern welfare state.

[Anonymous No.10135452]

>>10135439
What do you want a pat the head Reddit? Shoo, adults are talking.

[Anonymous No.10135459]

>>10135452
I just wanted to bring it into attention that money works with the principle of idolatry. I did it with a bad joke.

[Anonymous No.10135473]

>>10135459
It can *involve* principle of idolatry but doesn't work by it.

[Anonymous No.10135500]

>>10135207
Money not imposed through state force usually takes the form of debt(as in Mesopotamia). Debt money is entirely different, as debt is an inherently political object.
Commodity currency on the other hand has almost always historically come about because of the state(In fact, the one exception to this is medieval Islam).
The form of money(dollars) we use today is neither debt, nor commodity currency.

[Anonymous No.10135507]

>>10135207
I think you're misunderstanding what the guy is trying to suggest about how the wage relation means that money is a crystallisation of labour/people's time. You're another victim of commodity fetishism.

[Anonymous No.10135510]

>>10135449
The tater famine was not caused by Capitalism by any stretch of the imagination. Capitalism does not guarantee automatic efficacy in it's practictioners. If you suck at Capitalism yor reward is cocomitant with your effectiveness. And you must always remain cognizant of the potential for external factors in you wish to remain effective.
A malaise of a higher order is the actual culprit here. Adam Smith was right that "bad seasons" cause "dearth," but the violence of well-intentioned governments can convert dearth into "famine.

[Anonymous No.10135511]

>>10135207
> the original acquisition of property is just

Which portion of American soil was justly acquired? Which portion of British soil was justly acquired?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

[Anonymous No.10135514]

>>10135435
>What is the Dark Ages
a meme

[Anonymous No.10135537]

>>10135514
...are you saying you disagree with the image you posted?

[Anonymous No.10135555]

>>10135511
The Indians were Mystic savages. They had no cognizance of the trappings of civilization and were content to massacre each other and seize from each other all they wanted.

[Anonymous No.10135559]

>>10135510
The Irish famine was capitalism- don't touch the holy nature of economics!

[Anonymous No.10135562]

>>10135555
Don't talk shit about things you don't know about, son.

[Anonymous No.10135566]

>>10135192
Yes socialism thrives in homogenous countries. The thing is Capitalism thrives even better in the same countries.

[Anonymous No.10135570]

>>10135435
capitalism without industrialization did nothing positive for humanity. industrialization without capitalism did, and did it better.

[Anonymous No.10135573]

>>10135537
Do you not remember the Finno-Korean Hyper war?

[Anonymous No.10135583]

>>10133841
>Klein can't write, can't think and doesn't know the first thing about economics.

This. No Logo had the depth of a car park puddle.

[Anonymous No.10135584]

>>10132299
I don't care about capitalism but I want to profit from it.

[Anonymous No.10135608]

>>10135514
Such a stupid image. They should read Taleb

[Anonymous No.10135635]

>>10135570
Capitlaism without industrialism is *Mercantilism* champ. And I know full well that Mercantilism did nothing (or rather little) for humanity.
>>10135584
Here's an honest Marxist
>>10135573
I am not learned on the subject, no. The essential message of the image you posted is correct and I cannot fathom how such a thing would change it.
If you're getting at some other point; spit it out already.

[Anonymous No.10135640]

If we can do better than capitalism why do the vast majority of economists support it?

[Anonymous No.10135645]

>>10135562
Nice argument. I know reasonably well what I am talking about and unless you can prove how I do not; into the trash.

[Anonymous No.10135805]

>>10133863
VERY good

[Anonymous No.10135916]

[Anonymous No.10135930]

>>10135635
>Capitlaism without industrialism is *Mercantilism* champ. And I know full well that Mercantilism did nothing (or rather little) for humanity.
Your thinking is so shallow. How the hell is that your response?

[Anonymous No.10135934]

>>10133863
Gold

[Anonymous No.10135951]

>thread has been up for 24 hours

At what point did all the /lit/ mods lose all morale and give up?

[Anonymous No.10135961]

>>10135640
I'm not against Capitalism but economics is a total pseud field

[Anonymous No.10135964]

>>10135951
what compels people like you to come into threads and bitch like this?

[Anonymous No.10135991]

>>10134691
>Money and property are creations of the state,
of course, people who unironically say things like 'pure ideology' have no idea wtf they're talking about

[Anonymous No.10136027]

>>10135951
Minimize the thread if your feelings are hurt.

[Anonymous No.10136540]

>>10135930
Well presumably you can dissect it then. Let's see it.

[Anonymous No.10136687]

>>10134911
I've heard this before. How is capitalism unsustainable? Legit question.

[Anonymous No.10136947]

>>10132299
She looks like a burnt out ex-stripper

[Anonymous No.10136968]

>>10132650
>>10132655
>>10132674
>>10132687
And all these somewhat reasonable answers to unreplied.

[Anonymous No.10136977]

>>10132299
Cosmopolis

[Anonymous No.10137678]

>>10135227
>or they eat up the profit if that other person happens to have connections, or if they're better at selling themselves rather than having merit that's relevant to the position
Being an efficient salesman is part of the game, but if someone can deliver a better product or a better price then they will likely come out on top in the end.

>Competition is not what corporations want and is not what rational agents would engage in
None the less, competition is part of the free market and is a part of what makes capitalism so efficient. Removing competition is no help to the consumer, and capitalism is all about the consumer.

>>10135250
With capitalism, greed is indeed beneficial. Greed provides the service to the market, greed fuels the service provider/product manufacturer to deliver it better or at a lower cost, and in the end greed helps to advance society since you don't make money in a capitalist system without providing people what they want and/or need. Whether you're flipping burgers, teaching students, driving a bus, growing wheat or other crops, keeping the streets safe as a Police Officer, selling firearms at a gun store, or stocking shelves at a supermarket, you're helping keep society going or maybe even improving on it. The amount of money you earn will reflect how much impact you make, and the consumer can influence it by voting with their dollar, or since capitalist societies also tend to be democracies, literally voting can influence the society as well. On the street though, every dollar spent is a vote. You're saying "these people provided a service that I like, I support them. I could have spent this money elsewhere but I chose to spend it here."

>>10135241
Whether self-published or traditionally published, yes, the writer must do a lot of the marketing unless your name is Stephen King or J K Rowling or something like that.

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>>10135191
How does it relate to capitalism

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>>10132299
The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama

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>>10135385
Then the quote contradicts itself, for the man at the intellectual top is not isolated, but will exist with other people and converse with them and from them gain intellectual benefits, because that's how businesses create optimum solutions

Nepotism doesn't rely upon the state. Laissez faire capitalism is more conducive to nepotism than the mixed economy since the state can mandate transparency among who holds what job position

Not a refutation, and that's not really mercantilism.

>>10137678
Uh yeah no, because nepotism is all about entrenching oneself in the market, and being the incumbent entity combined with a very small group of very rich people to help you fend off or buy out competitors means "in the end" is naive, and until that prophesied time comes, consumers have a shit time.

Yes, competition is. But rational agents don't want a free market, because it's bad for their profits.
>capitalism is all about the consumer
Imagine being this economically bluepilled

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>>10136968
Robinson Crusoe is basically capitalism incarnate- that's how Defoe conceived him at least. Shipwrecked from civilization, his will to survive shows that the human spirit is capable of extraordinary strength. The novel is now known moreso as an object of contention in postcolonial studies, but its still a great read on its own.

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>>10132299
Fanged Noumena

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>>10136977
cool movie

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>the butthurt commies itt

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>>10137987
Ikr

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>>10135449
>Capitalism starved Irishmen and Germans fairly recently.

Name two groups of people more deserving of mass starvation.

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>>10138252
3rd wave feminists and socialists. I'll toss in BLM members just for fun.

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>>10138363
My how edgy

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>>10138370
It's edgy to desire a free, prosperous, and united west?

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>>10132366
yes

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READ MANUFACTURING CONSENT

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>>10139778
>Noam "The Gnome" Chomsky
Pure ideology

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>>10138483
Certainly not comrade

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I'm late to the party, but pic related.
>Economic competition is good
>Makes your city richer
>Competing with money means that you don't compete with the sword and make the city weaker by invading and getting invaded all the time

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>>10140228
>Competing with money means that you don't compete with the sword and make the city weaker by invading and getting invaded all the time
lol

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>>10133749
>>10133699

If the root of money is production and goods, then what of interest and rents?

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>>10140275
money is a machine

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>>10139778
You read Taleb and become

A S C E N D E D

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>>10132299
This one should be right up your alley senpai

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>>10140275
>interest
Opportunity cost. Why should I lend money to you when I could use it on my own enterprises? There are alternatives to it, though. Some Islamic countries abolished interest; instead, the lender partners with you and takes a cut on your profits/losses

>rents
Goods/services cost money. You're paying a fee for a limited use of said goods/services.

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also, this >>10133788

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>libertarian
>named after lenin
>tfw

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>>10133757
kike

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You know Emma is a self proclaimed Marxist right? Or is the whole point you are being sarcastic?