not a shitpost, bear with me Everyone has their ML blogpost and pasta ready whenever someone asks about Marxist economics on this board, and the conversations always delve deep into recursive, masturbatory diatribes and quotes from random people you probably never read in full. I'm guilty of this as well, just to be clear. What I'd like to do is issue a challenge that I think will be helpful to the posters as well as the lurkers.
Explain the basics of Marxist economics in 100 words or less and without using the words: - exploited - proletariat - class - bourgeois
Your boss is an asshole who profits off of your labor. You don't get paid what you deserve. Think about how expensive the things you and your fellow workers produce are and how little you receive in return. Your boss profits off of that even though he didn't contribute anything to the process except giving you tools to make that thing. Since you have the tools now, why don't you just get rid of the boss? And then you can keep producing that stuff for yourselves or to sell and use the money to help you, your workers, and your community by funding schools, hospitals, homes for all, and other necessary services.
Nathan Price
Capitalism bad >if you cant explain something in under 100 words its not worth my time
Josiah Anderson
I should add to the rules no appeals to emotion or childish name-calling like this
>implying I think this is the only thing worth my time. I also enjoy a good autistic blogpost but brevity is a skill that is missing here and I think could/should be developed more.
Jordan Sanchez
Then remove that quip and just have "Your boss profits off of your labor" and then the rest.
Owen Moore
Some people own stuff called means of production - MoP. All the other people don't. Those who own the MoP make those who don't own the MoP work for a wage. Thus, we call this last category workers. The ones who own the MoP make a ton of money by selling the goods and services produced by the workers, but in the end the workers got much less than this ton of money as their wages. And sho on and sho on.
Jayden Kelly
Your time is money. It takes time to make food (clothes, etc) that feeds people. It takes less time to make food for one person than the amount of time that person can work. Rich people pay for your food, not for your time. As a result, rich people make money by paying you for less time than the amount of time you work. Rich people beat each other by using machines to make things in less time. Machine time doesn't make money. More machinery = less human time = less money made per product. As a result, rich people are doomed.
