Hexbollah

joined 10 months ago
[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

The Historical Documents!

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In America, dental and health insurance are separate. And many jobs that provide health insurance can often not provide dental insurance. There is a reason teeth are referred to as the "luxury bones".

 

The whole cave parable is like "what if the reality I experience is but a crude approximation and ill defined shadows cast by the real world? And I am forced to sit and observe reality this way."

This basically sounds like a description of when I am really drunk and my vision is blurring and doubling before blacking out (which itself proves impermanence and subjectivity of reality, if you think about it).

I think Plato was an alcoholic trying to dress things up in a baroque philosophical framework to justify it.

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When the sky has no rim

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They can have recessions, depending on how plugged in their economy is to the broader international capitalist market. But often socialist countries don't because the capitalist free market operates on supply and demand self-correction. This is dipping a bit into control theory and dynamic systems, but broadly, you get oscillations (business cycles) if there are delays and/or too much correction/amplification of signals. So, if there is unmet demand, it is overshot or as the market is correcting, the demand reduces, so that there is overproduction. This overshoot, is often seen as a bubble inflating and bursting.

But to get to why this can be avoided in socialist countries, we have to recognize that this is one of the few dimensions where central planning, even very flawed and crude versions, is robust. The planners can say "we have a demand of 500 units, and only 400 were delivered, increase production by 25%." Where multiple competing enterprises could just say "There is a market for 100 more units. So expand production by a significant fraction of that (leading to the many competing firms to produce a factor more)". Because of the lack of coordination, and the incentive to try to capture a large fraction of a market for profit, a lot of these self-correction mechanisms in capitalism overshoot their targets, causing a firm to go into bankruptcy and not pay back debts. But any form of planning can somewhat dampen that, even if fluctuations and errors can lead to some overproduction or shortfall.

 
[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When I first watched it, it was with several of my more liberal friends, and I felt like I was taking crazy pills when said friends were talking about how innovative and brilliant Hamilton was as a masterpiece musical.

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

God, now I can't stop thinking about making beer brats, but with Mountain Dew instead of beer.

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Come human, here is the way to Atlantis.

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

I have been switching around a bit, but this is the current one. It is Disco Elysium fan art.