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   ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 19:58:32 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

   • Sturmführer Xeno Fish Biscuits
   • Moffin'tosh
   Plus, she's using a theory of legal damages to establish actual theft. There's a huge difference between me stealing your actual car and a legislature saying that you would have had a car but for my legal transgression, which was not stealing an actual car.
   
   The former is a factual matter, the later only needs to be supported by a legal policy with a "rational basis," which is hardly a real constitutional legal standard at all and doesn't necessarily reflect anything but the declarations of the regime in power.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 21:46:49 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • MasterSimper
     • Moffin'tosh
     I just think the issues are far more complex than the simpleton math that OP attempts to sell. The issue lies at the intersection of many legal theories and rules, culture, and the natural flow of economic markets and systems.
     
     One thing I note here is something I saw with a lot of my classmates as we approached graduation, and that's that many believed that they had to work for someone, for a firm. It didn't even occur to them that they could work for themselves. Mental slaves.
     
     I of course sat down and did some very simple math — "I'm poor as fuck. If I get my license, I can make charge $xxx.xx an hour starting. If I work four hours a month (and collect on it), I can pay rent on a small apartment. If I work another four, I can buy groceries. And so on. I just need to put up an advert and get a one or two clients a month to start."
     
     I didn't have any "profit" my first five years, and there were period were I had employees, and there were times when I loaned money in to make payroll until I collect that "big check" from client X. Cash flow isn't always fluid. I didn't see the employees chipping in their dime or taking a pay cut to help out. Everyone's a communist until they have to pay to keep the business running.
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     MasterSimper (mastersimper@troll.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 21:46:50 JST MasterSimper

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     • Sturmführer Xeno Fish Biscuits
     • Moffin'tosh
     @Humpleupagus @Xenophon @moffintosh Ah I have you now goyim look here here would be no theft in communism though, you need to own property for that. It just works- karl marx
     
     Honestly I believe lenin was like the todd howard of his time
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     houseoftolstoy@merovingian.club's status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 03:43:48 JST houseoftolstoy

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     • MasterSimper
     • Moffin'tosh

     @Humpleupagus @moffintosh @Xenophon @MasterSimper >Everyone's a communist until they have to pay to keep the business running.

     Far too many communists just assume businesses are automatically profitable and constantly flush with excess money like Scrooge McDuck. But that is to be expected when most communists are just envious rather than truly principled.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 03:56:26 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • MasterSimper
     • houseoftolstoy
     • Moffin'tosh
     They probably also don't know the difference between accrual and cash accounting, and therefore, don't understand what "profit" actually means in many of the cases about which they complain.
     
     Either that or they want the business to pay wages by distributing rights to collect and/or sue upon accounts recievable to the employee.