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[-] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago
[-] Jobasha@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Marx never accounted for plasma, checkmate commies

[-] blight@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

I think there's actually a neat metaphor about this somewhere in Marx, that enough quantity can have a quality of its own. You can heat water 1 degree at a time, but once you reach the melting or boiling points, that same 1 degree increase causes the water to act radically differently.

I'm not sure where this analogy is useful, but it's neat. Maybe something along the lines of e.g., while feudal socities had limited wage labor, the amount of people dependent on wages for survival had not reached the boiling point where the economy became capitalist. Or, while everyone has some amount of money, it's only once you have reached a boiling point that you can invest in and thereby influence a corporation.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are not accounting for phase transitional heat, overcooled water, and other nerd shit I forgot.

I think overcooled water is a nice analogy for tipping points

[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

Alive, dead, alive and dead at the same time

[-] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Third one describes what it's like to be at work in a fascist empire

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