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Trying2KnowMyself [they/them, comrade/them]

@ Trying2KnowMyself @hexbear.net

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they/them/their/theirs/themself

Don’t worry, you can be a misogynist on Hexbear! Just make sure you’re talking to a pup-girl first so you have plausible deniability and can complain that you aren’t being interpreted charitably enough for your blatant misogyny.

  • Apparently RedNote also loves birds

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  • My phone doesn’t want to do a good job of it, but by commenting here I’ll remember later

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #88 Union

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  • I’ve looked through over 500 Ilya Repin paintings and not found a match for the final scene

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #88 Union

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  • The canary has lore

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #88 Union

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  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #87 Vertical Restraints

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  • Maybe in theory, but I believe Vertical Restraints is the term used in US antitrust law.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #87 Vertical Restraints

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  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #87 Vertical Restraints

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  • How much of it is inflation vs. collusion from the chief?

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #86 Agio

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  • I won’t claim to be the best read

    And this certainly isn’t something I’ve read about, so I’m sure I’m misunderstanding.

    the historical example of the rapid inflation of gold coins when the Spanish brought over their hoard from conquering, colonizing and enslaving South America […] The labor for creating gold became cheap

    This seems like it misinterprets my understanding of “labor value” in a couple ways:

    • colonization and theft are treated as labor: if stealing gold is labor, then why is wage theft not labor? It devalues gold as a commodity, but doesn’t change the time required to extract it (unless by “extract” we mean “steal”)
    • the price someone “accepts” for their labor vs. the quantity of time necessary: theft of gold would disincentivize capital to pay for actual extraction due to the impact on commodity value, but the labor time required for extraction remains unchanged by this - a worker is not able to extract more or less gold through means other than theft in a given period just because theft has impacted what people are willing to pay
    • slavery as a reduction in labor value?

    Again:

    I won’t claim to be the best read

    So I would like to understand how I’ve misunderstood both from a “modern” interpretation and from Marx’s perspective on this.

    Marx would be horrified at fiat currency, as it is an abstraction on top of an abstraction. It is barely tangential to labor value.

    Yes, paper money has no real value - it’s purely socially constructed to have it - but it seems the gold standard inflates the value of gold compared to other commodities when paper money is backed by it.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #86 Agio

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  • I won’t claim to be the best read, so I may be misinterpreting you, the author, Marx, or all three, but it didn’t seem like Marx believed that the commodity value of gold solely was established from the labor value of its extraction.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #86 Agio

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  • It’s still a step from the physical labor of miners, wheelwrights, and the “undesirable” labor of plague doctors to the non-physical labor of a bank teller, though admittedly not to the level of the bank manager. It may not be a place in “high society” and ultimately falls into the same class, but it still seems like a step up from the roles we’ve seen them in so far.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #86 Agio

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  • I don’t think we’ve seen non-elf bankers before and perhaps there’s some in-universe distinction from bank tellers still, but I think it’s also the first time we’ve seen a goblin not working a physical labor job, unless you count Gabi spending more time running the coop & doing taxes than making wheels.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #86 Agio

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  • I poked a bit at the Assignats/early paper money that came up in #54 and while this certainly seems like a continuation of what that comic foreshadowed, it is hard to read it and not think the author is a gold bug.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #85 Payment in Kind

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  • Haha, ok - I remembered the faces being different in #73 and not that some of them had very similar faces but different skin colors.

    Sfief

    Chief’s paying in wheels.

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  • The benefit is that:

    • if it were Sneeze, then it kills the redemption arc
    • if it were someone else other than Falke, there’s more characters to be annoyed by their bad takes

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #85 Payment in Kind

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  • She wasn’t the scab, though it’s not the first bad take.

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #85 Payment in Kind

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  • In #83, I assumed their bakery was just open to the broader community, but now I’m wondering what the payment in wheels is for - have they hired more than a baker recently?

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  • So many opportunities to name the kid!

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #84 Simply 84

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  • Woah, no name, no concept to cover?

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #73 Labour Migration

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