I Tried To Watch Zeitgeist
(with appreciation for the genius of Gilda Radner)
This is a very old post I have saved ever since I wrote it
It is the end of a conversation I had with a pseudo Marxist
Re: division of labor
21 Nov 2001
> I saw the Marxist formulation above recently
> espoused by a highly regarded economist.
> Strange that these people don't understand
> something so basic to their craft
> If you see any flaw in my reasoning,
> please point it out to me.
Well...
The true value in "Marx" is that he wrote a book!
Just a few online debates will point out that the
ideas that were presented by Karl Marx were flawed.
This is the problem that 'great thinkers/authors' run into...
Any design meeting would quickly point out these flaws...
But Authors don't throw design meetings, they write books...
Unfortunately for them, the masses get to decide...
And the grandest plans of mice and men...
come to naught...
Debating the actual value of Marx is a moot point...
But, if Marxism had any TRUE value,
it would be part of _the system_
as it is, I see it as a series of whines from a
"I could have been a contender" complainer
Great ideas are nice, but,
real solutions are the cure to the woes of humanity.......
Start a business, and then think about Karl Marx...
whine whine whine...
The fact is,
some people are just plain stupid,
and some people realize that success comes from utilizing this fact.
The terminology referring to "extracting surplus labor from the
masses" is just a matter of smart people getting idiots to do
things for them...
As stupid people will,
-for the appropriate amount of praise...
