One thing some people fail to consider is the personnel costs. Crewing an aircraft for 2 hours is half the price of crewing a train for 4 hours to get the same distance.
You’re also discounting your labor as a driver. Driving takes attention whereas on a train you can just kick back and relax.
Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.
Idk if this is a joke, but “ran through” is what the kids these days use to degrade promiscuous women, eg “she’s been ran through a lot”
Never stop for an orb.
Yeah, but it’s not like opera attendance right now is spread very equally. At that point you have to ask is it more unjust that a janitor can’t afford to see the show he’s put work into, or someone can’t see the show because they weren’t able to get an in.
Who decides, who gets to help…
The workers do, hiring and firing decisions are either voted on by the troupe or by elected representatives of the troupe. Same with all the excess tickets, which would probably be split by how much labor you put into the production. So maybe you can’t get a job in the opera, but maybe you can babysit for the director while they’re working late and they’ll give you a ticket. In this sense the audience becomes more of a community because all of them have some sort of connection to the performance, and all of them get to see the fruits of there labor. As opposed to now where you’re alienated from the production and your only connection to the show is through purchasing a ticket. That community connected by labor will get more satisfaction from the opera then an audience of ticket buyers.
Acidity does damage to tooth enamel
Sugar does damage to tooth enamel
So I guess it’s multiplication and two negatives make a positive ?
Kropotkin also goes into this, the idea is that once we re organize labor and get rid of all the middlemen, rent seekers, dead weight etc. We’ll only have to work ~4 hours a day for necessities. That leaves an additional 4 hours of leisure time. You can use that new leisure time to work on art, music etc. especially the background labor that people often ignore. You want a canvas to paint on? Go to the art workshop and help them out for a day and they’ll give you a canvas. Want tickets to the opera? Go work on setting up the stage, lights etc. and they’ll give you a ticket. Want a toy, go put in some hours with santas elves and help to make some toys and you’ll get one in return.
How feasible is this? Probably not as much any more. Kropotkin doesn’t value specialization very highly, which makes sense as he was writing about Russia in the 1800s where most work was unskilled brute force labor like farming and working in a factory. Back then it was maybe possible for you to show up to the piano workshop and they could give you some menial job that would help them out. Now all the menial work is done by robots and machines and you need a decent amount of technical knowledge to be able to help out at the piano factory.
Anarchism has trouble dealing with specialization. While it increases efficiency, now more than ever, it also inevitably leads to classes and eventually a hierarchy of labor. Before they thought maybe mass education would fix this, as everyone would know a bit of everything and could help everywhere, but as education has expanded so has the complexity of the system, and the knowledge needed to be a functional part of that system.
Kropotkin says that you should use your labor to help out the video game co-op and then they’ll give you the game. If we organize labor better we’d only have to work 4 hours a day for necessities, so the other 4 hours can be used to work on other projects and in return you’ll get the products of that labor.
Kropotkin goes into in “the conquest of bread”, his argument is that our main priority as a society should be getting everyone’s needs met. Once everyone’s needs are met wages aren’t really necessary as you are being provided food, housing etc. based on your need. At that point wages and money can only cause problems in the commune as it would only be for accumulation, and if someone starts accumulating money they also accumulate power, which challenges the equality of everyone in the commune.
Maybe the commune can collectively hold currency or gold to exchange with other communes, but if you give individuals that currency that is private property ( in the Marxist sense ) and should be removed to protect anarchy.
Now way to know if it’s coke, they could be snorting sugar to pretend to be rich.
Only one way to find out.
yeah, but there were probably a lot of slave owners who lived in the UK and got a pay out, and passed it on to there descendants.
I’d help if only I had a printer
Maybe Charles III will end up like his namesake Charles I
Closest thing a lot of us have to team sports
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it creates perverse incentive for the state to prioritize predating on problem gamblers and poor people in order to raise tax revenues
Yeah but that incentive exists for any organization running gambling. It’s just that the mob/companies will pursue that motive more ruthlessly because:
The state is more accountable to the public and public opinion than a company. A company is only accountable to its shareholders who will almost always tell it to pursue profits at all costs. The state, at least in a democratic system, is accountable to the people. People can vote out a city council pushing gambling to increase revenue, they can’t vote out the board of draft kings.
The state bears some of the cost of addiction so they have some incentive to not let it get out of hand. A destitute gambler is more likely to use social services, to commit crime, abuse their family etc. which the state has to pay for in some way. Also there’s lost sales tax revenue if they can’t buy anything else and they’re more likely to stop paying property tax or get their home foreclosed, sold for a lower price lowering the assessed value and the property tax you can charge. All of these costs are completely externalized for companies / the mob so they can, and usually do, ignore them.
Also the money can go to actually good causes as opposed to the pocket of the draft king’s CEO or the mob boss. You can even theoretically set a cap for revenue, say the state can only make $10 million off of gambling, and the rest is proportionally refunded to the gamblers, you’d never see that in a for-profit enterprise like a company or the mob.
Might be more common with the spike in gas prices, gotta take “savings” where you can get them