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Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:41PM (#38145448)
"we've reinvented capitalism" .. ok, so i'll substitute "capitalism" with "phrenology". Who cares about the definition? It's just a word, right?

Claiming that A, B & C is the same as D surely needs to imply some concern about the actual meaning of D, no?

Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ... by BurningFrog on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:31PM (#38147495)
Words mean different things for different people and in different contexts. That there is only one universally correct meaning is true in Python, but just not how human language works.

Pretty sure what I wrote was understandable for most. You probably also understood it, but felt the need to complain about the vocabulary.

Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:36PM (#38147857)
Actually, very much no. I see no connection whatsoever between, on the one hand, division of labor & exchange of labor for money and, on the other hand, capitalism.

The first two may be a necessary precondition for capitalism, but they in no way describe it - they are common elements in human communities that predate capitalism by millenia.