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It was similar to this in 2016 when folks thought HRC would win. She had a slim lead in a lot of states but ended up losing. My guess is that this is why the pollsters are being far more aggressive this year than in 2016.

It does take some work to get past what we know about Stalin, Lenin, Mao, etc and evaluate Marx based purely on the context of his time. Marx was more of a philosopher and storyteller than anything. His work (while deeply flawed) has been misconstrued to the point where few actually know what Marx was trying to say. If you strip away the atrocities done in his name later on, you find that his theories were more about evolution than politics or government.

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Yes. Everything Marx wrote was based on the underpinning that labor was the most important factor and inherently those who own the factories/businesses are inherently exploiting labor. My view is that you choose to work and therefore know what comes with it. If you do not want to be labor (the human that transforms raw inputs into finished outputs) then be self employed. Thousands do it every day. Again, I come at this from the economics standpoint being that I have 2 degrees in it and have read the book for an economics course.

Answer.. none really. Or last not in the way that Marx predicted. Again, it was a prediction. In short, was that there was a current reality and if certain conditions stayed constant.. xyz would happen. However, he 100% discounted the value of technology which makes labor less integral.

I vote 3rd party roughly 98% of the time. The only exceptions are when there is no option (one candidate running) and on the rare exception that a candidate actually fits what I want.

First, I am not going to vote for her Second, my guess is that if elected you get a mix of the two qualities that you listed.

not quite. there are three primary factors of production; land, labor, and capital. Capital in this case is not money. it is technology, machines, process. The intermediary between labor and the end product. Marx, focused solely on Western Europe (UK, France, Netherlands, and Germany). His theory was that labor was the primary and most important factor of production. They would be worked to the point where they no longer sustain themselves. Keep in mind.. most of what Marx wrote was prediction. From there, they (the proletariat) would inevitably rise up against the factory owners. this would happen over and over and over again and eventually we would settle on communal ownership of the factors of production.

First, Marx's theory was that the communist form of life would happen inevitably. Not due to the iron fist of government. Lenin knew this and even admitted that he was trying to fast forward the process. What would drive this inevitable but gradual conversion from capitalism to communism? Labor being exploited and rising up.. in short. However, Marx completely ignored technology (machines, electricity, duplicative processes) and therefore hence his labor theory of value was debunked very early on. It is the philosophical underpinning to everything in Das Kapital. The labor theory of value (LTV) is a theory that the value of a good or service is determined by the amount of labor required to produce it. Karl Marx used the LTV to critique capitalism and argue that workers are exploited by capitalists

I read Das Kapital from cover to cover in undergrad. So when I criticize it.. I actually know what I am talking about much like yourself. Interesting how universities are so liberal and yet my professor (female and liberal) tore Marx's theories to pieces. She thought that he was a waste of our time but knew that everybody would demand that we study him.

You would say this no matter what was said between them. Both could have posted a single letter X and you would post at how CdnFox won the debate hands down.. when in fact they said the same exact thing (hypothetically)

"Stomping".. it is comical that you think that this internet forum has any impact on myself or the issues. You vastly overestimate your impact.. I guess it helps your fragile ego. In the meantime.. presently I am working to get employers refunds on their overpaid taxes. That has impact. Your angry, bitter, self righteousness online postings have zero impact. you have an odd way of ignoring myself.. reflexively responding with near perfect predictability is not ignoring.

you would be the worst poker player in the history of the game.. You just admitted to wanting the last word. Not everything justifies a response and if you were an adult, you would know that. I dealt with someone like you last weekend at a town hall meeting. The meeting was to approve (or not) keeping a certain tax rate the same. When it came time for public comment.. this guy started spouting your type of rhetoric. We listened and said nothing. Why? Because it was not even close to being relevant to the topic. He finished and we moved on. Effectively ignoring him. To engage in an off topic discussion would be a waste of time and money. I know that you can't grasp that.

If it did not bother you.. you would not respond. You would brush it off as insignificant and move on.

you prove my point.. it bothers you.

the cop out is that they will get "cancelled" if they do. The only place that they can speak the truth is on obscure, meaningless internet chat forums. If they were as brave, courageous, righteous, and bada$$ as they claim to be online.. that would not deter them. In fact, it would embolden them,

Its easy for someone on an anonymous internet forum to claim to be brilliant, successful, wealthy, or bada$$. I met one of these types in real life. Online.. he was John Wayne. Real life.. he was a frail, meek old man on an oxygen tank.

I know that no one on here will do it but 2024 q2 data for qcew comes out second week of November. The true litmus test of jobs lost or gained will be to compare the numbers from 2024 q2 and 2019 q4. See how I leave out 2020 q1 and 2020 q2?

Interesting is it not that the most outspoken on here (and other forums) are always telling other posters how mad, upset, bothered, etc. they are. Most likely a form of projection. They are the ones who are bitter, angry, pi$$ed off, etc. but to admit that would implicitly show weakness. They try to say that they are stoic, unphased and oblivious to your commentary when in fact.. it really bothers them.

The impassioned, adamant, confrontational nature of certain Internet forum posters is probably born from them from frustration at their own ineffectiveness. In the grand scheme, they are being left behind, made obsolete, etc. and it really bothers them. So as an outlet.. they come on here and vent. They know that they have no impact on the big picture. Nothing that they say will change anything.

The paranoia around this strike proves for the 812th time that Idiocracy is not just a movie. Its prophetic and correct.

I will agree that Harris needs to work on being more concise and succinct in her speech. Now, that is not the same as Trump's no-filter verbal diarrhea. Usually someone that is too convoluted in their communications suffers from having too much on the proverbial plate. If I am telling you about the single plate.. its easy to be succinct and direct. However, If I have 42 dishes on the table and I need to come up with something that describes it all in one paragraph.. not quite so simple. It can be quite the challenging to narrow things down to just a few simple points at the expense of effectively omitting a whole slough of other things.

VP debates are mostly irrelevant. They give politicos something to chew on for a day or two.

If not for name-calling and making wild assumptions.. some on here would have nothing to say. as for the response to the disaster in the Southeast.. I need more than subjective articles to form an opinion. I would need transactional level data which I know is not just given out like candy.

Another reason that I can't take you seriously. Your opinions are not fact. Just taught 8 states how to do a process that used to take a month... now takes 1 hour and is mostly spot checking for accuracy. You could not come close to doing such a thing. But I was brainwashed according to types like you. Funny how 6 of those 8 states are red states.. hmm..