sure, it depends on what your goals are. if i recall correctly, the book even has a section on fictitious capital that’s formatted as 5 paragraphs with an introductory paragraph and conclusion paragraph and 3 paragraphs in the middle of restating a few definitions of fictitious capital and how marxist investors need to take this in to account when making investment decisions.
yeah so he’s making the argument that grades end up being a form of token economy, perhaps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_economy
they’re not a currency, directly, and he admits that, but their “exchange” value comes from the rewards and opportunities that become available to students with good grades
i don’t. the gist of the book – and i’ll emphasize again that “gist” is all there is because it’s ai generated drivel – is that if you consider the material basis of the value of companies when making investment decisions, you’ll probably come out ahead against people who are swayed by the empty promises of vaporware. start by reading actual theory, even something short like wages, price, and profit and just apply that to whether you think a company will be worth investing in, and it’ll be a better use of your time.
was this what you were reading, perhaps?
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/school-is-an-economy-and-its-currency-is-the-grade-bbb11962858c
i have a friend with a kindle unlimited that i borrowed and read this a couple months ago when someone else posted about it.
it is 100% ai generated drivel. don’t waste your money.
i think you’re conflating “economy” with “economic system” here. false economy here is more like the boots theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
it’s about individual actions, not the entire system of social relations. a false economy is buying cheap boots that are more expensive in the long term.
i think maybe you mean more like perverse incentive
Lyrically, it is a tribute to Hill’s oldest son Zion David Marley, to whom she gave birth in 1997, during her relationship with Rohan Marley.
i guess the question is why they chose to name their child zion, but the zion metaphor in rastafarianism in my limited understanding is an aspirational one of seeking a homeland after a forced exile, whereas israeli zionism is a settler-colonial philosophy similar to american manifest destiny or german lebensraum.
thanks for sharing your thoughts, mark
Maybe it’s because he’s nobility?
i think this is probably a lot of it. his class interest and lack of theory are what made him useful to the cia to exploit against the soviets.
one of the events osama bin laden cited in particular in his declaration of war against the americans occupying the land of the two holy places was the qana massacre, when an iof artillery attack killed over 100 lebanese civilian refugees who were seeking shelter at a u.n. compound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana_massacre
because time is a flat circle
iraqi krugerrands
how do i summon more jd vance disco elysium posting? i feel like there’s a lot to explore here.
i tried the same thing last week and that perfidious @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net prolonged the news megathread out of personal spite. i wish you more luck than i had!
the bourgeoisie would best treat their anxiety by abdicating their class position and returning ownership of the means of production to the workers in solidarity and mutual prosperity. my brother wouldn’t be so mean if it weren’t for his slavish pursuit of extracting profits from his workers. o’brien’s prank is ultimately for quark’s own benefit.
i’m not sure what to do in this situation
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Israel, is in fact, USA/Israel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, USA plus Israel. Israel is not an imperialist system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning USA system made useful by the USA corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full imperialist system as defined by Lenin. Many NATO countries run a modified version of the USA system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of USA which is widely used today is often called “Israel,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the USA system, developed by the USA Project. There really is an Israel, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
i agree with the point you’re making, but the illiad ends before achilles’ death. the next chapter is hector’s dad sneaking through the enemy siege camp to recover his son’s body, pleading with achilles, who agrees, fulfilling his redemption arc from rebelling against his own king’s commands, suffering the consequences of that in the form of his lover’s death and funeral, his desecration of hector’s body, and finally acquiescing to king priam’s request, which is specifically being made not as a king, but as someone appealing only to achilles’ sense of universal humanity. the illiad ends with hector’s funeral because that is the most important point being made in the story, not divine punishment.
dutch tulip mania?
c is for communism, that’s good enough for me