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RE: The Basics of Anti-Capitalism - Exploitation and Imperialism - Part One
looked it up, first thing I found. Read imperialism the highest stage of capitalism, it has a massive amount of evidence, including statistics.
so you're telling me 5 people can do as much research as intel or amd? Nice joke.
I couldn't say it better myself. The only thing I have to say as someone who happens to work for the EU is that they don't know the first thing about economic efficiency. I also worked for two large companies in the telecom industry and I witnessed from first hand how size hindered their efficiency and their competitiveness until they are finaly beaten by smaller competitors.
As to what you said abot colonialism, if this is so then why was the Soviet union one of the greatest colonialist agents in history.
"I witnessed from first hand how size hindered their efficiency and their competitiveness until they are finaly beaten by smaller competitors.:
then why do large companies exist. Why do they bother buying other companies. Why do 5 people own more wealth than the bottom 50% of that is not "better".
Big businesses can afford to be less efficient and still come out on top.
Look at central heating, it costs way less per person than small heaters in every room. The same goes for every tool they have to use. It costs less to buy windows in bulk, and to deploy other types of software. Its a lot cheaper to run a massive factory than having a million individuals do it. That's why weaving went industrial.
Tell me, how efficient is it to ship a hundred product in one truck vs only being able to make and ship 10.
Tell me, how is a thousand individual miners better alone? Unless they are renting the means of production, (which means the true ruling class is the ones renting it out, making it centralised still), they would each have to buy their own. That costs more than collectively buying one, far more efficient, machine that they could never afford.
We don't even need wars any more. Young people can not afford to pay for rent of flat or house any more.... https://steemit.com/money/@worldfinances/young-people-let-them-die
imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
Capitalism is long gone. It ended in 1914 when FED was established.
the fed was established because the natural progression of capitalism is the centralisation of power into a few members of the ruling class and government.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
This book explains it well
So essentially, either capitalism always collapses into whatever you call this, or whatever you call this is capitalism. IDC which you choose.
also because it annoys me. Capitalism is based off of the word capital, which is essentially private ownership of the means of production. So nothing about how free the people feel makes it more or less capitalism. That's ideology and is useless when describing material conditions of the world, which is what economics is actually for.
Centralisation of power in every way is no way a progression. Never was and never will be. Centralisation would be managable only ....and only if the central power would know what is doing. They would know all the details about every little town. They would fund them depending on the programme. Imagine that. And that is just...impossible. Centralization was always leading to bigger unrest and war. Don't worry, US is in totalitarian state. EU may be slowly going in that direction too. If you want to talk about capitalism....what we have now is Neoliberal-Oligarchic fascism. Books do not mean a thing. There was a book that said Adolf Hilter died in 1945 in Germany instead of 1962 in Argentina.....
Capitalism will always lead to centralization
"improve access to and cost of finance"
finance capital does not want competition, it wants domination.
"McDonald's, the nation's biggest restaurant chain, is, in fact, very profitable. Those $5.5 billion in profits last year came from revenues of $27.6 billion, giving the Golden Arches a profit margin of nearly 20%. The average profit margin of big companies in the S&P 500 index is only 8.7%, according to S&P Capital IQ."
give me actual statistics, not stupid quotes. The inefficiency comes from the nature of capitalism, not the nature of large machinery. Linux, windows, and osx could never have been made by individuals, nobody even understands how all of each operating system works. (Well, for windows at least not sure about the others)
Linux was actually made by individuals
tens of thousands of them working together. I'm not talking about the original, I'm talking about what it is today. Yet again you can see linux at a very low market share compared to windows. That is because they are not a company, like the small but "better" businesses, they can't advertise, provide oems incentives, or anything else.
also on top of that everything is made by individuals, the only difference is whether they actually have control over the tools they are using, including themselves
You shouldn't use an OS, or much of the tech field as an example, they really can be made by small companies. They just usually get bought out by a massive company.
what should I run a computer from bios then?
Space magic.