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[quote user="Jackson LaRose"]I see. My question was based upon a much more literalistic interpretation of "products". That's I saw a contradiction vis a vis STV. What if you don't particularly value "stuff", you know?[/quote] Yup. The conventional wisdom is that there's economic goods and "extra-economic"
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[quote user="Jackson LaRose"]"Wealth = Products" in all cases? How do you reconcile this with the Subjective Theory of Value?[/quote] Jeah, wealth is the amount of stuff you can afford. I don't see why that would contradict subjective value. It's not like productivity is somehow objective. What makes some piece of material
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[quote user="Jackson LaRose"]Does "wealth" always equate to "goods produced"?[/quote] Yes. Wealth is useful things like cars and haircuts. They are made abundant only by producing them. Money is an allocation mechanism. People confuse money and wealth because there was no allocation mechanism in our evolutionary past. All
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[quote user="Freedom4Me73986"]and its a known fact humans didn't start eating meat until after ag.[/quote] I thought it was the other way around. Where did you get that from?
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No way this is real, humanity isn't that crazy.
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[quote user="John James"]Dammit Neo, when are you going to learn to copy and paste into Notepad?[/quote] Whattoyou mean, James?
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Keynesianism is a free lunch theory. 'Aggregate demand' is nothing else than societies total ability to afford scarce objects. Keynesians suggest that this ability can magically be raised if we have more money to spend. It's communism light: "If you take away the need to pay for stuff, then stuff will appear out of thin air".
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Sorry for the late response, didn't see your post there. [quote user="Jackson LaRose"][quoteuser="EmperorNero"]People were dying like cattle back then from microorganisms in the water and vermin in the food storages and whatnot. Cities were swamps of waste and feces.[/quote]Please name a city that existed in 5000 B.C.[/quote
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Hmm... so I gotta get my black market soda from my light bulb dealer now?
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Nope. Voted once, thought it was stupid, never did it again. That was actually long before I became an anarchist.