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  • With a Usenet account, I was able to make things relatively autonomous.

    I told it what I wanted and it found it immediately, downloaded it, renamed it, even replaced it with higher quality whenever it became available.

    It would find new episodes of shows I asked it to look for as they aired, new movies I was interested in as soon as they became available, Scott’s, genres, it was crazy.

    If I was at work and someone recommended me a movie, I could add it to an IMDb watch list and my PC at home would have it downloaded automatically before I even got home.

    It was way too efficient for me, I don’t watch much ‘content’ in real life, but it was so easy and efficient I ended up with dozens of TB’s of stuff that I never had the time to watch to begin with.

    I was a collector of ‘content’ and not a consumer of it. So I stopped torrenting and using Usenet.

    But Usenet is really pretty awesome with the right setup. I felt like I didn’t need to do shit once I set everything up.







  • Omg, bro don’t spout this communist manifesto shit at me please!

    And to the second part “then we’ll just make more tires” is where the devil is in the details. How is that organized? How is that, more importantly, enforced?

    You can’t just “bourgeoisie” and the. “We’ll just make more” and skirt off into the sunset. How will we, how exactly will we, make more tires?

    Like really dive in here, because this is where the rubber meets the road. How do we ‘just make more’? Where do the workers come from? How do they know we even need to make more tires? Who tells them? And what happens if …. No one shows up to make any more tires?

    What if everyone is too busy hiking, or learning a new language, or doing art or writing great novels to make more tires?


  • Seriously, what is your expectation? What standard of living and what level of effort are you not reaching, or are extending too much effort to achieve?

    Why is life not coming close to satisfying you? Is it because people have more than you do? Is it because people have less?

    I think stating expectations is pretty important.

    Me? I want to earn enough to support myself, my family a couple of dogs, have two cars and a house and raise smart and healthy and vibrant children.

    I want a lifestyle where I can travel once in awhile, I can pay for the things I enjoy in my leisure time and recreation.

    I want to send my kids to summer camp and soccer and gymnastics, I want to buy my wife things she likes for Christmas and birthdays and anniversaries.

    If I want all of these things, I have to go out and get them. If I wait for the government to give them to me, they’ll never come.

    Now are your expectations in line with, or above or below what mine are? Does it bother you that people have more than you do?

    I don’t need a yatch, or my own spaceship. I wouldn’t even know what to do with those things if I did have them.









  • You do understand what an analogy used for the purpose of illustrating a point is, right?

    What is it with people and being literal to the point of making a conversation painful?

    I could explain all of your questions for you, but it takes a lot of groundwork laying that you should have probably picked up on your own by now, and at least a little bit from the education system.

    Is all they teach you in school how great Karl Marx is? Did you learn how businesses operate? Assets, liabilities, profit margins, overhead, OSHA, etc?

    C-level executives usually set an operational budget per business department. There is a labour budget included in that. It’s a managers duty to use that budget to fill out the labour needs of the business, based on sales and sales forecasts and any other upcoming business changes.

    It’s not really as easy as ‘just hire everyone who walks in the door and don’t enforce any attendance policies, if they want to work they’ll show up. Sure, some days we will have more than we need, and other days we won’t have enough, but if the communities needs more tires, I’m sure they’ll just come in and do the right thing.’

    Seriously, have you ever had to depend on someone doing their job before? I’m guessing not.

    Anyway, we aren’t really talking about societies need for tires, we are talking about capitalism



  • Let me just explain something very simple here. The base state of man is suffering.

    That’s our default. That’s how living works.

    What our system has done is alleviate so much of that base suffering that now, we are so incredibly unused to any real suffering that we just make up things to be ‘hurt’ over.

    Capitalism has removed almost all of that base suffering from your life. The ‘horrible conditions’ capitalism ‘creates’ is simply handing you much much too cushy of a life.

    I mean, who had time to be offended when you’re too busy trying not to starve to death, hiding in the bushes with a spear, hoping a rabbits gonna run by.