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Message 1171953 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 18:00:44 UTC


Really? What do you "produce"?
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Message 1171954 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 18:01:00 UTC

Hey, reverse protesters, actually EAT on your lunch breaks! I've GOT a job! Take THAT!!!
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Message 1171955 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 18:01:24 UTC

Hey, reverse protesters, quit whining about the Occupiers and ge back to "work".
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Message 1171961 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 18:15:01 UTC

Can you tell me where the library is please?
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Message 1171962 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 18:16:23 UTC - in response to Message 1171961.  

Can you tell me where the library is please?

Why, certainly. :)
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Message 1171982 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 20:14:38 UTC

Where is the place map?

I need to find the John!
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Message 1171992 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 21:08:49 UTC - in response to Message 1171991.  

But are you a capitalist? If so, what are you producing?
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Message 1172005 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 21:45:37 UTC - in response to Message 1171996.  

I would think that I produce a positive image with clientel at my office. I am one of the first people seen and keeping the atmosphere light and easy makes clients time here much easier. By doing this positive feedback and thereby word of mouth help give us a positive reference when and it a friend or family of a current client needs us. In the end my job and others are preserved and we are able to expand our services to new areas. This is as good as I can describe a Capitalistic attitude for me.


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Message 1172009 - Posted: 18 Nov 2011, 21:54:07 UTC - in response to Message 1171996.  

cap·i·tal·ist

1. A supporter of capitalism.
2. An investor of capital in business, especially one having a major financial interest in an important enterprise.
3. A person of great wealth.

You make the mistake of assuming that one who is a "Capitalist" actually produces anything.


No, I do not make such a mistake. However, you're pointing out these three definitions greatly advances the purpose of this thread. And I do not accept any of these definitions except perhaps 2. The investor may not be the producer, but the investor may fund the producer/inventor.

(Just like I do not accept the Supreme Court ruling that "Corporations are people.")
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Message 1172125 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 6:29:03 UTC

I guess I'm a capitalist. I bought stock in XM satellite radio.
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My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.
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Message 1172198 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 15:11:16 UTC - in response to Message 1172125.  

I guess I'm a capitalist. I bought stock in XM satellite radio.


You sir, are the very definition of EVIL! Lol

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Message 1172223 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 16:04:53 UTC - in response to Message 1172215.  

Oh dear, I bought some British Gas shares when they were privatised in 1986. Am I now dammed for all eternity .....


Let that be a lesson to you. Give you something to think about when your burning in hell now, won't it? :P

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Message 1172231 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 16:31:02 UTC - in response to Message 1172215.  

Oh dear, I bought some British Gas shares when they were privatised in 1986. Am I now dammed for all eternity .....


Yes you are. However you may be burnt at a lower cost to the rest of us.



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Message 1172240 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 17:12:16 UTC

LOL
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Message 1172244 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 17:27:33 UTC - in response to Message 1172227.  

'ello Terry!

Oh heck, I was looking forward to a happy retirement. Anyone got a cheap source of asbestos underwear?


Blooming "capitalist"...I suppose you intend to use the divi from your
shares to support your retirement so that your not state dependent on support.
Giving you a sense of independents that allows you to sleep peacefully at night
knowing that along with your rightfully state and company pensions your not
going to be a drag on society or your family. How dare you maintain this
independence through thoughtful planning of your finances all those years ago.
Other than this, "got any good share tips" Chris.......

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.
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Message 1172265 - Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 18:48:04 UTC

This thread is epic. We now know which capitalists to exploit in order to pay our ways through life! :D

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Message 1172772 - Posted: 21 Nov 2011, 19:31:43 UTC - in response to Message 1172215.  

Oh dear, I bought some British Gas shares when they were privatised in 1986. Am I now dammed for all eternity .....

But are you a gas producer?
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Message 1173625 - Posted: 25 Nov 2011, 6:00:17 UTC - in response to Message 1172265.  

This thread is epic. We now know which capitalists to exploit in order to pay our ways through life! :D

Terry


If you wish for an epic thread, post something serious.
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Message 1173626 - Posted: 25 Nov 2011, 6:00:58 UTC - in response to Message 1172048.  

But are you a capitalist? If so, what are you producing?


We used to have a scary one around here ....


Irrelevant.
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Message 1173627 - Posted: 25 Nov 2011, 6:03:50 UTC - in response to Message 1172039.  
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In the "End" socialism "WILL" win!


i should not have spoken such.

to me,
Socialism means the "broadest consensus".
Capitalism means the "application of a force".

Capital, especially money, is an artificial human construct.
It's misuse has led to more grief than it is possible to convey.
It's proper use could accelerate Human evolution irreversibly, unimaginably.
A construct, an idea, could propel this planet's consciousness into forever.
At some point we'll leave even the idea of "Capital" behind.
We'll realize that "We" are our "Imagining". There will be no need for an intermediary, a capital, for our "Completion".

Till that day arrives,
find a sock,
put some money in it,
and remember where you hide "it".

If you can do that,
then the whole exercise becomes pointless,
you are no longer part of the problem.

The "Rest" will follow.


I do no think many of us would subscribe to your definitions of capitalism and socialism.
Knowing that communist thinkers placed a great deal of emphasis on how tool use allowed our minds to changed I wonder if any of them ever thought of capital ... money, as a tool which became not a means but an end?
Anyway, on what do you base your belief that "proper use could accelerate Human evolution irreversibly."
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