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Sraffian - Value didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. It exists in the context of all in which it is exchanged and what was produced before it.
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worsteconstudent.bsky.social
I think this guy has something to say about land.
11:41 〒0 く Today 11:41 AM All Photos notes, or pank bills cannot increase the wealth of the community that includes as well those who promise to pay as those who are entitled to receive. The enslavement of a part of their number could not increase the wealth of a people for what the enslavers gained the enslaved would lose. Increase in land values does not represent increase in the common wealth, for what land owners gain by higher prices, the tenants or purchasers who must pay them will lose. And all this relative wealth, which, in common thought and speech, in legislation and law, is undistinguished from actual wealth, could, without the destruction or consumption of anything more than a few drops of ink and a piece of paper, be utterly annihilated. By enactment of the sovereign political power debts might be canceled, slaves emancipated, and land resumed as the common property of the whole people, without the aggregate wealth being diminished by the value of a pinch of snuff, for what some would lose others would gain. There would be no more destruction of wealth than there was creation of wealth when Elizabeth Tudor enriched her favorite courtiers by the grant of monopolies, notes, or pank bills cannot increase the wealth of the community that includes as well those who promise to pay as those who are entitled to receive. The enslavement of a part of their number could not increase the wealth of a people for what the enslavers gained the enslaved would lose. Increase in land values does not represent increase in the common wealth, for what land owners gain by higher prices, the tenants or purchasers who must pay them will lose. And all this relative wealth, which, in common thought and speech, in legislation and law, is undistinguished from actual wealth, could, without the destruction or consumption of anything more than a few drops of ink and a piece of paper, be utterly annihilated. By enactment of the sovereign political power debts might be canceled, slaves emancipated, and land resumed as the common property of the whole people, without the aggregate wealth being diminished by the value of a pinch of snuff, for what some would lose others would gain. There would be no more destruction of wealth than there was creation of wealth when Elizabeth Tudor enriched her favorite courtiers by the grant of monopolies,
August 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Is social welfare theory over? I really hoped there would be more hopeful results on which methods of choice are optimal.
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Eli Lily seeing that they can charge more for GLP1 agonists.
A dog looking at the camera saying “waiter! waiter! more imperial superprofits please!!”
May 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Paul Manly running in Nanaimo-Ladysmith is amazing
April 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Gen z is cooked
January 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Who is this collection for? Yeah let me read up on Freudian psychoanalysis and Ptolemaic astronomy real quick.
December 21, 2024 at 11:34 PM
worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Somehow needed up in Arizona
November 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM