reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: November 7th, 2020

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  • Also, this one: I never understood wind, you know, I know windmills very much, I’ve studied it better than anybody, I knew, it’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany, mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they’re manufactured - tremendous, if you’re into this, tremendous fumes, gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know, we have a world, right? The world is tiny compared to the universe. So, tremendous, tremendous amounts of fumes and everything, you talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right, spewing, wether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air, it‘s our air, their air, everything, right. So they make these things and then they put them up and if you own a house in vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50% of the price!


















  • Also, Marx’ distinction of productive and unproductive labour isn’t a moral one, but rather a strictly material one. Marx distinguishes between productive and unproductive labour strictly along the lines of whether the product of said labour turns a profit for a capitalist. Thus, the exact same labour process with the exact same resulting product can be both productive or unproductive, its categorisation is entirely determined by whether the product is a commodity or simply remains a good.

    In your example, the barista making your coffee would be productive labour, whereas you making the coffee yourself would be classified as unproductive.