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1. ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭ (angle@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jun-2018 23:55:29 EDT ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭

   Hmm. I've been reading Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" lately, and unsurprisingly, its got me thinking about capital. That is to say, resources that provide regular value, usually in the form of money. Land you can collect rent on, a factory that produces goods, etc, etc, all the way down to the knives you keep in your kitchen that provide regular value by helping you cut stuff. And It's got me thinking - Is there such a thing as cultural, intellectual, or memetic capital?

   1. ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭ (angle@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jun-2018 23:57:49 EDT ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭

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      That is to say, capital that takes, not physicaly form, but form mainly within the minds of human beings, either individually or together? Like, if you want to build a rocket, living in a society where people are familiar with the idea of rockets and know how to build them is very helpful. Being able to go buy a textbook and draw upon that knowledge is helpful. Being able to hire rocket scientists without sinking the entire investment to create rocketry as a science is helpful.

      1. ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭ (angle@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jun-2018 00:02:43 EDT ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭

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         Thus, depending on where you live, you might invisibly gain access to vast amounts of capital without having to lift a finger. And thats not even taking into account the capital that a person can accumulate themselves. Like, growing up, my parents had a decent family library of old sci-fi, and I read a ton of it. Alan Dean Foster, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, David Brin, Anne McCaffrey, David Weber... I could go on.

         1. ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭ (angle@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jun-2018 00:05:36 EDT ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭

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            Now, I'm not sure what the value of all this was, but I suspect it was greater than 0. And yet, it's invisible. It;s not reflected in any kind of official statistic. How much of the wealth of our society is invisible like this? :/

   2. tethre (tethre@cybre.space)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jun-2018 12:12:47 EDT tethre

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      @Angle yes. what do you think appropriation is all about?

      1. ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭ (angle@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jun-2018 13:31:20 EDT ☭⚑ Comrade Angles ⚑☭

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         @tethre Oooh, now that's a good point! :0