Gyges posted:

I believe if there's one made before 1986 and you've got the proper licenses and have it registered with the ATF, you can own one.

Pirate Radar posted:

this obviously doesn’t 100% own because that interracial couple had their special day ruined, but... can we say this 50% owns?

galagazombie posted:

While rural living is inefficient in an industrialized/post-industrial society you still need a small part of your population out in the boonies to do the farming and mining lithium brine and what have you. The problem with most of these dying small towns however is that they're not the aforementioned. They were coal-mining towns or steel mill towns or other insert-industry towns that are either obsolete or no longer need to be so spread out. These people need help, but not necessarily their towns. It's not pretty but we need to start funding peoples movement into better places and better housing instead of just letting them sit there and die. This of course pales in comparison to the disaster of the suburbs. For every bit of inefficiency you can point to for rural living the suburbs beat it in spades. The suburbs are all the negatives and none of the positives of combining Urban and Rural. If we really want to get serious about fighting a climate apocalypse destroying the suburbs comes before anything about rural areas every time.

paul_soccer12 posted:

Antonymous posted:

artists, actors and other talent who get paid for their unique skill or idea directly are probably the one exception to capitalist production that can get filthy rich without exploitation, though obviously film, TV, music are as exploitative as any industry. JK rowling does benefit as a capitalist from toys and games and whatever else in that realm.

iirc even in the soviet union writer and poet were probably the highest paid position in society, though you had to join a guild to officially be a writer you couldn't just quit your day job and write.

it's actually a good question for both bourgeois econ and marxist econ why adam sandler gets $20mil / film and keeps getting it. That's gotta be tough to explain.

Antonymous posted:

Obviously you have to break it down. Rowling does not own or run a book binding business, and I don't know exactly how it the book industry works but I'm guessing the publisher does not either and will make those contracts and negotiate those prices. Is Rowling making rent from her publisher and book binder due to her getting royalties from the story they are printing? Traditionally the publisher would be the capitalist, compensating the writer less than the labor time spent making the work, and profiting off of that, much like any artist who labors for their patron. It is assumed JK Rowling makes 15% off of each book sold, it just so happens that they've sold about 9 billion dollars worth of books. There's some other use values to having a physical book, like how it presents on your shelf if you put it up as decoration, but I cannot find an easy way to say that Rowling's writing isn't the main use value created and put to sale, that it isn't from her own labor alone. That's why I wrote ebook, so we can maybe ignore the artist who drew the cover and the labor and capital from printing a book.

But elsewhere it's hard to apply in a space where the work performed isn't 100% interchangeable and floating in a competitive market. I see intellectual property is a kind of private property, i.e. capital that does divert value away from those who create it, though the way it does this is a little obscure. The films, the games, the toys and bedsheets and so on - here to me she's clearly a capitalist, and the intellectual property of Harry Potter is being used as capital and siphoning off labor from society. I think marx's theory for what defines the capitalist era is mass production of identical goods, labor which is de jure free to negotiate and associate and not tied to land, and so on. But a key thing is that 'Tom Cruise' is not a reproducible good, nor is the story of Harry Potter, and that's where you'd need a real marxist economist to figure out mathematically, structurally what's going on.

As I recall Marx himself has virutally nothing to say about artist labor or intellectual property. Grundrisse says actors do no perform productive labor simply by making a play, but my making a play that returns more money to the theater owner than they are compensated. I think that's a point to the publisher being the capitalist, not Rowling. As far as intellectual property, he says that capitalism has constrained itself by universally measuring value as labor time and that this value and system of exploitation will apply to things which cannot logically be measured this way in order to keep the system consistent, as an example he mentioned science and social intercourse taking on value forms. I think you can easily make the jump that when ideas become factors of production legally guarded as private property it's obvious they are functioning as capital, I'm just having trouble seeing selling your direct labor for 15% of returns as immediately the same thing.

Gripweed posted:

I think they should focus on learning how to keep a tomato plant alive before they move on to deposing foreign leaders

https://twitter.com/JavelinaJim/status/1271221319074537473?s=20

IAMKOREA posted:

Looks like they smothered grass with cardboard and mulched with black compost. That's a perfectly fine way to start a garden. Check out Charles Dowding on YouTube. No dig is the future.

Taintrunner posted:

mostly posting this as an example of solidarity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisvM8F_5PE

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/notworldclazz/status/1274871684642803715

praxis

stone soup posted:

i was looking around on google maps a while back and found vivos, "the largest survival community on earth."



apply now

edit; the shelter director has discretion over euthanizing pets if need be

Serf posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

looks like he took the one down about the torture of going to the grocery store

but here it is on ars


bonus

Low Desert Punk posted: