Zompist Bboard Again

NCVS notably never started in some parts of the Midwest. I wonder if people from Kansas City today speak identical to GA or did they have a separate divergence? Also I'm from New Jersey and I've never heard any example of someone distinguishing all three of merry-marry-Mary, regardless of which dial...

I hate the whole "the workers are the people" thing. I know many people who are just unemployable regardless of system due to disability. I already am shut of many jobs before I can even apply due to my disabilities. The paradise should be for the people, regardless of if they work ! My va...

I completely agree with Moose-tache, and alleviating it under a market framework, regardless of capitalist or not, would require redistribution to a scale never seen before in history. Although as things stand now, the US economy is not even big enough to afford government giving every adult citizen...

One of my family's favourite jokes is pointing out how a Nora Roberts book, there's a scene in late medieval Ireland had potatoes (my mother, the only one who read the book, does not remember if the whole book was set in medieval Ireland or just that scene).

I do not think jobs are in themselves a good thing. I think it is better to ensure in general that people have resources than that they work, especially if their work is both redundant and not what they want to do in life. Automation is a bad thing because the structure of society is that people not...

I'm saying regardless of whether a command economy is democratic or dicatorial capitalism tends to outperform. Is uppose I should specifically state I meant market economies without fixed prices - I am including co-ops and not including "state capitalism" (typing that term is weird, to me ...

Otherwise, it will be difficult to prove that total social capital was maximized, which is the whole point of the theory. I'm talking positive economics, which is about describing reality rather than making suggestions or proposals of what to do. The only goal have in this point of conversation is ...

I had a silly idea: a mythology where the primordial Earth (or conworld) is instead of being made of fire, water, ice or mud made from bread In the beginning, the world was made of bread. As time went on, the bread became stale and the crust hardened into stone. The Gods saw this, and it was not goo...

For prompts, random ideas and questions related to worldbuilding that aren't about conlangs

I don't think they mean different things in different systems, just that there are interpretations that are wrong. The mainstream theory's principles do not cease to be true if an economy isn't capitalist - as I pointed out the marginal utility theory applies to any logistical system, even non-human

I agree with Raphael on that. Also one could say instead of ownership in the sense of property rights, exchange implies possesion. Possession is self-evident - either I possess a keyboard to type this sentence or I do not. Since there is scarcity, an economy must have a mechanism for determining who...

Exchange in economic theory does not have to assume ownership in the sense of property rights - whether something is owned in an exchange is not relevant to whether an exchange took place. Indeed in exchanges involving services instead of goods, ownership can smetimes be impossible to define. I defi...

I don't think there is much of a point in conversation if someone believes that abstractions cannot be fundamentals and that there is nothing but fundamental particles. By that logical, economies don't exist and neither does anything larger than a molecule. (by the way ATP is a molecule, and it is p...

Ah. Sadly I don't have income so I can't pay.

Nevertheless, these losses are not not included in standard quantitative analyses This is not always true and is becoming increasingly less true over time. The problem is the focus on short term profit over long, which is a recent development of business culture more than something inherent to capi...

The delivery system is the system that produces and distributes goods according to demand. I claim that the quantity of value will change depending on the mechanism of manufacture and distribution we are using owing to differences in the patterns of scarcity they produce. That's already incorporate...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:51 pm Next: flee (PFV): ndrêt /ɳdʐɛˤʔ/

entsém, entezir, enten /n̩tse̞m n̩tz̩ɹ̩ n̩tn̩/ [ˈə̃t.se̞m ˈə̃.tz̩.ɪ˞ ˈə̃.tə̃] - to run away from (transitive verb)

Next: cêuals /kæːˈɰʌɬ/ [kʰæːˈɰʌɬ] – dwarf (the mythical creature, not short humans)

Where is this pdf? I never saw this language before.

Really cool. I need to practice doing this kind of intro myself.

I'm not arguing that these things don't exist. I'm arguing that things like "exchange" are part of the delivery system, not natural, autonomous categories. I get the feeling I don't actually understand anything you are saying. I thought I understood what a delivery system meant, but I can...