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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

“Capital” would be:

  1. whatever oven or kiln the 3rd pig is using to make the bricks

  2. how the 3rd pig is getting paid / eating during the lengthier time it takes for him to make bricks and then build a more labor intensive construction

But thanks for playing

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. in the story, he dried them in the sun.

  2. the story says the pigs who did less work spent the days playing not getting paid and buying food

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No man that sun drying shit is expansion universe, not canon. And the author has said himself that pig 3 was on retainer for a masonry company.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So all capital is sourced from labour?

Hmmm

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No some of the capital that paid for the pig’s upkeep during his build period was the proceeds from natural resources that were conserved during a season of plenty to be sold in a time of scarcity. If you want to call eating less in the summertime “labor” with a capital L you can while I sit here and laugh. Capital is just liquidity. You can generate it by labor but that doesn’t make it the same as labor or the property of others who have labor to give.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mental gymnastics to justify bootlicking B strong here 🤡

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kindergarten marxism be strong over there. 😂🫡

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 10 months ago

I am not a Marxist and my comment history speaks for itself.

Can't even muster up a proper come back based on doctrine tho sad