Haitians eating dirt has nothing to do with being poor, but has to do with the types of people they are.
Take 1000 Europeans and place them somewhere with absolutely nothing.
Make it even harder for them, and destroy a city and then place them there.
They wonβt eat a dirt cookie I promise you.
common mistake in the study of Marx. Capital Vol 1 is the most mature of Marx's writings, he was still working on new editions right up until he died. Vol 2 and 3 were assembled from drafts and notes posthumously, many of them going back to when he first began drafting Vol 1
Marxism's most devastating critic wasn't Hayek, Mises, or any Austrian.
It was Marx himself.
Volume III of Capital, published after his death, destroyed the theory Volume I had built. π§΅
@KellMorrHK you don't understand Marx's conception of value. it isn't merely "the price something trades for". prices tend towards values in a free market, they aren't magic spells that create value
@CDMorlock Engels claims the latest work used in Vol 3 was a notebook from 1875, the same year Marx finished rewriting and expanding Vol 1 for the French edition
@KellMorrHK the robot factory is creating less surplus value, yes. as robot factories proliferate and labor is removed from the process prices fall. you can look at historical data for how this works you don't need to invent hypotheticals
@KellMorrHK the reason why price tends towards value in a free market is because of competition, prices aren't magic they are a reflection of market forces. as companies implement widget automation and labor is phased out the price of the widget falls. this has been borne out countless times
@KellMorrHK every single conversation with you people goes the same way. price is not the same thing as value. automation doesn't add value. the point your hypothetical doesn't capture is that the price of widgets will fall with the increase in automation
media criticism will literally rot your brain. it's okay to watch TV or or watch movies or listen to music. but the moment you think there is meaning in it that can apply to the real world you are no longer acting as a materialist
@fhsdkjhfqwqwe even the ancient Greeks could tell the difference between fictional stories and the real world. they had a much richer understanding of the distinction than whatever you just typed. I suggest you lay off the literary criticism
@fhsdkjhfqwqwe okay be very specific about your point in one post. you are typing like a drunk person be charitable to me and be very specific what your issue is
@fhsdkjhfqwqwe "some people in literary criticism think literary criticism is useless therefor you are a literary critic if you think it's useless bro"
okay have fun with academia they will love you
@fhsdkjhfqwqwe yes and part of a materialist approach is to interrogate those baseless beliefs to accord them with the real world. if it's not a form of knowledge which you can apply to the real world, it's useless