what someone with generational wealth should be doing to be a good person.

Give their butler a generous holiday bonus after they drive you home insufferably drunk on new years

How?

Something about hegels dialectic of the slave in there. If you offload all your tasks and responsibilities onto a slave then you become dependent on that slave so the slave now has a sort of power over you

Might be more common with the spike in gas prices, gotta take “savings” where you can get them

The US is liberating the women of Iran. Can’t be locked in your house all day if you don’t have one.

A lot of labor, and probably lives went in to building that bridge.

One thing some people fail to consider is the personnel costs. Crewing an aircraft for 2 hours is half the price of crewing a train for 4 hours to get the same distance.

You’re also discounting your labor as a driver. Driving takes attention whereas on a train you can just kick back and relax.

Don’t have to help Iran, just have to not hurt them. Iran would take a “don’t fuck with me, I don’t fuck with you” deal letting oil through to Europe in exchange for them stopping all cooperation with the US on this dumb war

Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.

Idk if this is a joke, but “ran through” is what the kids these days use to degrade promiscuous women, eg “she’s been ran through a lot”

True story, this is the only thing they taught me at my liberal arts college, this along with the 32 genders

Never stop for an orb.

There are plenty of EVs below the median price Americans are paying for new cars ~$50k. People aren’t buying EVs because they don’t like them / the dealerships aren’t pushing them, not the price as they’re willing to shell out even more for a top of the line pickup.

It’s not fair competition if labor standards are far lower in the country being imported from.

Eh, it can be a scam too. You’ll most likely still have to get it approved by your manager, and when you leave you don’t get it payed out like you do with accrued vacation time.

Yeah, but it’s not like opera attendance right now is spread very equally. At that point you have to ask is it more unjust that a janitor can’t afford to see the show he’s put work into, or someone can’t see the show because they weren’t able to get an in.

Who decides, who gets to help…

The workers do, hiring and firing decisions are either voted on by the troupe or by elected representatives of the troupe. Same with all the excess tickets, which would probably be split by how much labor you put into the production. So maybe you can’t get a job in the opera, but maybe you can babysit for the director while they’re working late and they’ll give you a ticket. In this sense the audience becomes more of a community because all of them have some sort of connection to the performance, and all of them get to see the fruits of there labor. As opposed to now where you’re alienated from the production and your only connection to the show is through purchasing a ticket. That community connected by labor will get more satisfaction from the opera then an audience of ticket buyers.

Acidity does damage to tooth enamel

Sugar does damage to tooth enamel

So I guess it’s multiplication and two negatives make a positive ?

Kropotkin also goes into this, the idea is that once we re organize labor and get rid of all the middlemen, rent seekers, dead weight etc. We’ll only have to work ~4 hours a day for necessities. That leaves an additional 4 hours of leisure time. You can use that new leisure time to work on art, music etc. especially the background labor that people often ignore. You want a canvas to paint on? Go to the art workshop and help them out for a day and they’ll give you a canvas. Want tickets to the opera? Go work on setting up the stage, lights etc. and they’ll give you a ticket. Want a toy, go put in some hours with santas elves and help to make some toys and you’ll get one in return.

How feasible is this? Probably not as much any more. Kropotkin doesn’t value specialization very highly, which makes sense as he was writing about Russia in the 1800s where most work was unskilled brute force labor like farming and working in a factory. Back then it was maybe possible for you to show up to the piano workshop and they could give you some menial job that would help them out. Now all the menial work is done by robots and machines and you need a decent amount of technical knowledge to be able to help out at the piano factory.

Anarchism has trouble dealing with specialization. While it increases efficiency, now more than ever, it also inevitably leads to classes and eventually a hierarchy of labor. Before they thought maybe mass education would fix this, as everyone would know a bit of everything and could help everywhere, but as education has expanded so has the complexity of the system, and the knowledge needed to be a functional part of that system.

Kropotkin says that you should use your labor to help out the video game co-op and then they’ll give you the game. If we organize labor better we’d only have to work 4 hours a day for necessities, so the other 4 hours can be used to work on other projects and in return you’ll get the products of that labor.

Kropotkin goes into in “the conquest of bread”, his argument is that our main priority as a society should be getting everyone’s needs met. Once everyone’s needs are met wages aren’t really necessary as you are being provided food, housing etc. based on your need. At that point wages and money can only cause problems in the commune as it would only be for accumulation, and if someone starts accumulating money they also accumulate power, which challenges the equality of everyone in the commune.

Maybe the commune can collectively hold currency or gold to exchange with other communes, but if you give individuals that currency that is private property ( in the Marxist sense ) and should be removed to protect anarchy.