markpneyer
Re:Politics, free trade, violence
on Sunday March 21, 2010 @07:50PM (#1208878)
The Labor Theory of Value, which is the intellectual basis of Marxism, makes no sense.
The claim is that the value of an object is equal to the labor put into it. That means a dell laptop orbiting Jupiter is worth infinitely more than my flat screen TV, because the TV took far fewer hours of labor to produce.
Austrian School economics, on the other hand, argue that value is a subjective construct - and that each person values things differently. That is why trade is so good - people who value A more than B trade with people who value B more than A.
On the Fundamental Nature of the Universe
Re:Is College Really Worth It?
on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @10:31PM (#1011472)
Not if you're smart and motivated it's not.
I went to High School with a guy named Chris. He dropped out of college to do programming work, and I stayed on, eventually going to grad school.
Now he's the founder of GitHub and I'm some no-name programmer working for a financial company nobody's ever heard of.
Re:How the United States Lost the Naval War of 2015
on Friday December 18, 2009 @11:28AM (#1003374)
The federal budget is significantly more than 1 Trillion USD
Re:Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @06:47AM (#985654)
There are methods of marijuana ingestion that do not introduce carbon monoxide or other harmful byproducts of combustion into the body.
Re:Free Patents That Will Save Our Galaxy
on Sunday December 06, 2009 @09:36AM (#979565)
The Smo2gger eats CO2 and emits... stars!