Ernest Worthing @ejworthing@octodon.social

@elomatreb

A lecture can make people who are already motivated to be good think more clearly about what being good involves.

Marx, in one parahraph:

http://voiceholt.com/self-destructive-tendency-of-capitalism-brian-leiter-explains-how-to-think-about-marx/

Beware people who offer you a "red pill." Most of them are peddling hallucinogens.

In the Gita, the leader of the evil forces had good men on his side.

"This suggests that evil cannot flourish by itself in this world. It can do so only if it is allied with some good. This was the principle underlying noncooperation--that the evil system which the [British colonial] Government represents, and which has endured only because of the support it receives from good people, cannot survive if that support is withdrawn."

--Gandhi on Ch. 1 of the Bhagavad Gita

@Teryl_Pacieco

If you ever meet an angel anywhere but Heaven, be careful! Especially if the angel says something about a fall...

@Jehu@anarchism.space
OK. So would you say that UBI is compatible with capitalism? Would you agree that not all forms of capitalism use the threat of starvation to extract labor?

@Jehu@anarchism.space

An attractive way to pay for the basic income would be a tax on the unimproved value of land.
Hillel Steiner would make both the tax and the UBI global.

http://knowitwall.com/episodes/a-philosophers-take-on-global-basic-income/

@Jehu@anarchism.space

Suppose we instituted a universal basic income, high enough to meet people's basic needs, along with the taxes needed to pay for it. Suppose we kept everything else the same, including private ownership of farms and factories, the existence of stock markets, etc.

The choice then would not be between wage labor and starvation. The choice would be between wage labor and relative (not absolute) poverty.

Would that still be capitalism? Would it be cool, in your book?

@Cocoron

Also for Marx?

Learning German well enough to read German philosophy in the original is hard. It's not that hard to learn German well enough to be able to compare a translation to the original text and figure out what's a literal translation and where the translator used some judgment.

Did you know that there is an animated version of Schubert's Erlkönig?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0

If we design city transportation to maximize the number of people traveling, cars will be a low priority.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/27/opinion/automated-vehicles-cant-save-cities.html

@gargron @eloquence

I love the word "Ur-Elefant"!

Proof:

Everything you do is more interesting than a random 1000 digit number.

Suppose that some whole numbers are not interesting. Then there must be a least uninteresting whole number. Being the least uninteresting whole number is interesting. That is a contradiction. So all whole numbers are interesting.

Since everything you do is more interesting than a random 1000 digit number, and that number is interesting, everything you do is interesting.

@starbreaker @craigmaloney

Have you looked at the extended version of Markdown in Pandoc? Footnotes are one of the extended features!

http://pandoc.org/index.html

http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown

Manafort produced an incriminating email trail because he couldn't figure out how to convert a PDF file to Word.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/paul-manafort-couldnt-convert-pdfs-to-word-documents.html