True Story of the Day

[promethean75]

if it becomes easier to produce commodities becuz they are made faster and with less effort/energy, and as a result the producers recognize that they don't need to labor as much, they will naturally want to work less. not that they haven't always wanted to work as little as necessary... but especially now that they realize technology has and continues to make production faster and easier. before the industrial age, workers recognized that one had to work all day to accomplish what wuz necessary to survive. so they couldn't get angry, couldn't become suspicious of why they worked so much, etc. not so today.

this realization forms one third of the worker's building suspicion that something is screwy. he starts imagining, starts looking for, other more logical ways to do things which would make everything easier.

now u couldn't just say 'yeah the solution is to start your own business' becuz only the smallest percentage of them would be able to do so, so that plan is unworkable. 

the solution would be to radically change the means and modes of production so that for every worker a good degree less labor is required from him to yield the same result; the volume of product and the purchasing power of the wage he gets in exchange for his labor.

your mission, becuz u choose to accept it, is to design, conceptually, an alternative system in which this could be made possible. u will need to assemble a team of philosophers, logicians and economists.

This will be the theme music for your project: https://youtu.be/L2cstHtZ4gQ

[promethean75]

there is absolutely nothing wrong with wasting your time tryna design the perfect society becuz your time will be wasted no matter what u do. so why wouldn't u try to design the perfect society? perhaps the task is too much for a wee lad.

everything else in philosophy is either a non-problematic linguistic confusion or an important matter but not so important as the matters concerning us more immediately, as I've described. philosophical problems don't take precedence here. non-local causality, Zeno's paradox and Plato's theory of recollection might be cool to think and talk about but that shit doesn't bring home the bacon. the proletariat is concerned with bringing home the bacon.

political philosophy like hobbes, marx, locke and company can stay but only becuz they necessarily address real problems that do emerge in this process of history. on the way to maximizing production and minimizing costs, the material proletariat, a rational hedonist more or less, will run into situations described and dealt with by these political philosophers... and use them for guidance.

think of it like the underlying logic of the development of history sans hegel, if u can do it.

but all that other metaphysical and existential stuff is peripheral... and half of that shit would disappear if the proletariat got its shit together and Iike the wonder twins, activated.

[promethean75]

so the REAL problem is, a revolution would actually require the violent acquisition of private property that is in the form of factories and manufacturing, and the nonphysical assets of those things... company bank accounts, etc. so you'd literally have to take by force some guys private business becuz he certainly wouldn't give his consent unless you offered him something better in exchange.

the battle would most certainly become violent and would involve military and paramilitary faction splits and anarchy would be everywhere. there'd be a digital blackout. paper currency would be nothing if not kindling for starting fires. jesus lemme stop... I'm getting excited just thinking about it.

so anyway that's the problem now how do u deal with it. u can't teally. there's no other way it could happen. the bourgeoisie would not give anything up except if under duress. and that's simply not cool. i know i wouldn't give you my goddamn factory. u can go play in the road there che guevara.

so what would have to happen is, literally, a global - becuz international trade is necessary - union of workers that produce and present such a competitive force in industry x that private companies in the same field have to go under. the proletariat essentially puts a monopoly on industry and production. a giant corporation owned and run by a collective that dwarfs the likes of amazon or tesla in revenue.

the private businesses would then dissolve naturally... by the very mechanism of free market capitalism. this would be a nonviolent way to make the transition, and it would take decades.  

this is evolutionary socialism as opposed to revolutionary socialism, as they call it. the first happens through relatively peaceful reform over an extended period. the second relatively suddenly and violently. but in either case history would be moving in a direction toward one or the other.

don't think 'redistribution' of wealth, but better allocation of wealth by the wealth producers. that 'redistribution' thing brings with it visions of Castro and his men storming the beach. it's bad business, gives our movement a bad name. we are evolutionary revolutionaries who solve economic problems by utilizing the advantages and privileges offered by the very market we are changing.

[promethean75]

any philosopher from 800 AD forward who's ever had a job probably hated it. don't fuckin kid yourself. unless he was haute bourgeois or rubbing elbows with royalty and/or big money players, his daily grind, whatever it wuz, wuz in fact his biggest problem. and yet so few of em ever raised any fuss about it (N didn't like the restriction of a professorship for instance).

I'm sayin wouldn't something marx talked about dawn on a thinker sooner than religious problems or metaphysical abstract logical problems?

I'd be solely concerned with why i wuz putting so many hours in at work for so little money that would be spent in such an expensive consumer market. I'd be like why is this wool coat, hat and walking cane so expensive. I've got like three shillings. again, plato and hume and hartshorne are fun but they're of little help here. 

[promethean75]

can't fit your car in the garage becuz the porch and stairs are too big?

willing to disregard the communist government's county building codes to solve that problem (on the down low) and pay some dude $500 labor for three hours of work which doesn't seem right but only becuz he's so fast and normie carpenters would take all day which would make you feel better about paying $500 but why would he slow down on purpose so u can feel justified in paying him $500, and u don't want to do economics but just get it done already?

if u answered yes to these questions, call a prom75.

It would fail inspection in four ways. Name the four things that are wrong and/or missing. Please note it is still structurally sound despite it not being inspected, and that the customer explicitly wanted it like it is.

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[promethean75]

the spectrum mexican laborers are digging up the yard by the curb to run the fiber optic stuff or whatever it is. so i move my vehicles to the other side of the road to give them room with the shovels (literally right along the curb)... but i think one of em - the tough guy one that always cracks on americans when he's with his amigos and coworkers - thought that I moved the vehicles becuz i wuz afraid they'd hit em while working, rather than to give them more work room. I think he felt insulted. on the way back in the house i overheard him say 'puto' something something.

i offered some bottled water to em and only one guy nodded, so i brought him out a couple bottles. then on the way back in after coming out to give him the water, that same guy said 'something something tequila mota something something'.

now i think he said something like 'water? if u wanna make yourself useful bring me some tequila and weed, fucking gringo.'

so now i wanna go out there and smoke a bowl with em but I'm afraid he might fuck the fiber optics up if i get em high. what do i do? I like the guy tho. He's got a Quentin Tarantino movie feel to em.

[promethean75]

Whatchu know about chicken coops? Probably not much, but u know it don't cost $2,700 in labor to build one. Look at this fuckin guy.

(what I do is fake being a customer and I call around aksing carpenters what they'd charge to build it... then I show my customer their outrageous price. Bro I got mad salesmanship)

Why do they do this? The contractors I mean. Becuz they have enough work on the books to not worry about not having work becuz of giving an outrageous price quote. There's a logic here; if the customer is naive enough to take the offer, u bump the job to the front and make that outrageous money. If they don't take the offer, you've lost nothing really becuz you've got jobs for days.

And these homeowners will pay that shit. You'd be surprised how many of em don't research the expected/average costs to pay and always think a job is more difficult than it is. OMG a rotten deck board is gonna be like $300!

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He said $2,700 if u can't see it.

[Agent Smith]

My hunch is it took about, at most, 3 apples, 9 bananas, a Big Mac burger, 1 large cuppa coke, to get the climate change party going. Go figure! Howzat?! Howzat?!

[promethean75]

now i can build u one of these for $500 (but u gotta dig the footers or else my price goes up to $700 becuz who wants to dig footers) and it'll take me four hours.

this is called a chatham county lean-to special and it's an affordable way to create a sheltered space under which u can put such things as your pig cooker, riding lawn mower, gas grill, harley davidson, cooler/end-table, wife (if u wanna make her sleep outside), etc.

Please note the absence of post bolts, hurricane clips, fascia and barge rafters to further eliminate costs. The braces are not permanent and will be removed. Thank u.

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[vegetariantaxidermy]

now i can build u one of these for $500 (but u gotta dig the footers or else my price goes up to $700 becuz who wants to dig footers) and it'll take me four hours.

this is called a chatham county lean-to special and it's an affordable way to create a sheltered space under which u can put such things as your pig cooker, riding lawn mower, gas grill, harley davidson, cooler/end-table, wife (if u wanna make her sleep outside), etc.

Please note the absence of post bolts, hurricane clips, fascia and barge rafters to further eliminate costs. The braces are not permanent and will be removed. Thank u.


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Advertising for your business is hardly in keeping with the thread title. Why don't you start your own thread in the lounge for this?

[promethean75]

I see no reason we can't do arts and crafts in this thread, especially if they are true, can be described in a story form, and happened on the day they are posted about, thus meeting all three criterion (or do I say criteria) of this wonderful thread.

Plus u guys don't give a rats ass about lean-tos and chicken coops, so I already feel like an idiot. How much stupider would I feel if I created a thread for this shit.

Also it's not advertising becuz if I wuz advertising to u guys the price would be much higher becuz you're so far away. So for instance that lean-to would cost u $700 plus airfare plus housing expenses.

[attofishpi]

I see no reason we can't do arts and crafts in this thread, especially if they are true, can be described in a story form, and happened on the day they are posted about, thus meeting all three criterion (or do I say criteria) of this wonderful thread.

Plus u guys don't give a rats ass about lean-tos and chicken coops, so I already feel like an idiot. How much stupider would I feel if I created a thread for this shit.

Also it's not advertising becuz if I wuz advertising to u guys the price would be much higher becuz you're so far away. So for instance that lean-to would cost u $700 plus airfare plus housing expenses.

U would be sleeping next to the wookie, he will insist.

[promethean75]

Wealthy Indian family to pay Prom75 $3.75 per sq ft for 460 sq ft of decking that will take one day to install.

tank u my friend.

[promethean75]

the case of the mystery Lowe's.

a month ago i wuz pulling into a Lowe's and at the side drive entrance by the garden stuff were at least fifteen hispanic gentlemen soliciting their labor services. i made note of it but failed to recall which Lowe's it wuz.

since i have turned jobs down becuz i didn't wanna bother finding daily help. now i want the help but can't find the fuckin guys. it wuz a Lowe's within fifty miles of me.... which city i dunno. so now, everytime i go to a Lowe's somewhere, i cruise down each side lookin for the guys. alas, i still have not found them, and i go to a Lowe's every three days at least.

if i called Lowe's and aksed 'is this the Lowe's with the mexicans hanging out looking for work', i might get em busted, right? like whar if Lowe's doesn't know or doesn't care they're there until someone like me calls them and says sumthin about em.

see what i mean? i don't wanna bring the heat down on em but i can't find em goddamit! there's like twenty Lowe's man.

[promethean75]

Have u seen these men? If so, please contact me via PM.

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