<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: regularization</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=regularization</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:17:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=regularization" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regularization in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because 5 companies control 80% of movie box office in the US and that number is about to shrink to 4?  Not only making the profits and doing massive layoffs, but deciding what content we can see?<p>When purchasing Paramount, David Ellison published a press release to the Jerusalem Press talking about how he supported the IDF financially.  Actor Mark Ruffalo recently reminded people he said this, and Zionist organizations are denouncing him as an "anti-semite" for reminding people of this.</p>
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<p>She started her activism spying on European progressive groups for the CIA.<p>You take it for granted that she is the representative of the women of the world.  Thus any critique of this woman the establishment foisted on us is misogynistic. We do not all take this for granted though.</p>
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<p>The CIA sent her to Europe to spy on progressive groups.  She talked about it long ago.  She says the CIA was progressive and liberal (her words. not mine).<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=4HRUEqyZ7p8" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=4HRUEqyZ7p8</a></p>
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<p>The US and Europeans did not make decisions to "keep" countries under subjugation - they were tossed out - in Ireland, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam, Indonesia and so on.<p>The US lost 50,000 soldiers trying to subjugation the Vietnamese, who would nit bend.</p>
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<p>> Loss of sovereignty' for some reason is perfectly fine for Iceland, Switzerland and Norway, but not UK or others wanting to leave.<p>Kind of rich to say after the "Labour" PM of the UK said he would not allow the six occupied counties of north Ireland have a border poll, reneging on the Good Friday Agreement.</p>
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<p>The most cogent reply I have seen here.<p>She and/or you have a false conception of what a big five corporation is, or how it works. Yous probably also have a false conception of how relations of production under capitalism work as well. The man higher up the hierarchy at the FAANG has a better grasp of how these things work.  Often, people don't realize their conceptions were wrong until they get let go.<p>That she worked tirelessly, was well liked does not matter.  That in this short life we have, that she skipped vacations to devote more time to the company does not matter.<p>You said the person above her is not smart but he clearly is - he is higher up and survived and she is lower down and was cut.<p>Insofar as it being healthy for these companies for him to be there - him being there is in the nature of the corporation and perhaps its intrinsic infirmities, just as it is intrinsic to relations of production under capitalism.<p>One would hope that something as dramatic as not only him being over her, but him staying and her going would disabuse you of these notions.  Especially the idea that she had sone kind of relationship within the corporation where working tirelessly and skipping vacations would engender any loyalty on the part of the corporation's higher managers and owners.</p>
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<p>The slaves in Jamaica had a radically different experience then the slaves of America?<p>The colour bar. Colored Alien Seaman's Order, Kelso Cochrane, Bristol Bus Boycott<p>Could go up to Brixton incidents or all the attacks on this professor.</p>
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<p>As the article talks about Marx, let us consider the falsifiable predictions of Narx, who died in 1883.<p>* Economic crises (recessions, depressions) would continue, and becone worse over time (example: subprime crisis of 2008)<p>* profitability rates would go down over time<p>* wealth would concentrate more over time<p>* middle class would be slowly shrunk - say, doctor's losing their own offices and made to see people in 15 minute appointment blocks<p>* real hourly wages would fall<p>* proletariat will revolt and displace the bourgeoisie, in the manner the bourgeoisie overthrew the feudal order<p>These predictions are all falsifiable</p>
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<p>> Suppose you become politically radicalized and become a Marxist. You get convinced that the labor theory of value is correct.<p>> The number of people in the general population who will know enough about the history and philosophy of economics to give you a clear account of why Marxism and the labor theory of value is incorrect,<p>He's correct most people don't know about labor theory of value.  Which is why it's easy for him to categorize those who believe it as "radicalized" and "Marxist" versus the minority of calm, rational, objective people who can discount it.<p>Marx did follow the labor theory of value - as did virtually every major economist (or as they put it probably better back then, student of political economy) before Marx, who also believed it.  Marx credits another revolutionary for discovering the labor theory of value - Benjamin Franklin. There were a few proto-papers on subjective  theory of value, but an alternative theory of value did not even really exist before Capital was published.<p>Labor theory of value was the theory of Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and all the major economists before Marx.  And Marx accepted what they accepted.<p>Alternative theories of value were not really fleshed out until after Marx published Capital.<p>So consider all of this when he categorizes the idea of the labor theory of value as extremist, radical, Marxist etc.<p>According to this article, believing that a carpenter banging wood and nails into a table creates value is an extremist belief.  Even though pretty much every major economist before Marx believed the same thing.<p>Ps. This was told to you by myself - from one the 1% of people who know this stuff<p>Pps. If you didn't read the article, you would not know I am referring to myself as part of an elite 1% of knowledge sarcastically</p>
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<p>> Trickle-down economics has never been a real economic policy, and never been seriously advocated by federal policy-makers. It is an entirely pejorative term created by detractors of supply-side economics.<p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3522907-gop-lawmaker-byron-donalds-says-trickle-down-economics-does-work/" rel="nofollow">https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3522907-gop-lawmaker-byro...</a><p>Well here is one of those federal policy-makers you say doesn't exist, a Republican congressman, advocating four years ago for trickle down economics and advocating for "...letting the free market - and yes, trickle down economics, which does work - actually flourish in the United States"</p>
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<p>The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973.  It is even lower if you are only counting non-management roles then and now.  Wages have not gotten better over the past half century they have gotten worse.<p>Workers now work more hours pee year to try to catch up to what they made back then, so working conditions are worse now as well.</p>
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<p>Even more<p>$859 billion to DoD<p>$339 billion Veterans benefits<p>Then when we look at the $952 billion in interest, a good chunk of that is due to past military spending.<p>Plus even more - tens of billions of the military nuclear budget is done via the DoE, not the DoD in the budget line.<p>There's always a hand waving that previous debts accumulated like veteran's benefits and military related debt interest are not military spending, but they obviously are.</p>
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<p>And what happened before then?  Iran had a secular prime minister, Mossadegh, but the UK and US supported, among others, conservative clerics to overthrow that elected government to put in a dictatorship.<p>Then in the 1970s the CIA provided SAVAK with the names of secular left opposition to arrest and execute.<p>So spare me talk about foreigners supporting religious fanatics, the western establishment did so for decades.<p>I for one don't want my tax dollars used to bomb schools in Iran.</p>
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<p>> So if we use Google as a case study for "progressive business", having mostly succeeded at giving the poorest people one Earth an equal product to the richest people on Earth, what is the takeaway?<p>How should the people of Gaza thank Google for Google's Project Nimbus etc. targeting them for blockade starvation and bombings?<p>As Anatole France said - they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.</p>
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<p>There really hasn't been a heretical witchhunt in the US in recent times like against those who do not want US aid to Israel.  BDS resolutions and state employees across the country having to sign pledges they won't boycott Israel, college expulsion of Palestine supporters, then expulsion of multiple Ivy League presidents for not cracking down on students more, with Congressional visits and hearings.  Nothing this century in the US comes close in comparison.<p>Despite that, half of Democratic Congressional representatives, including Nancy Pelosi, just voted to cut aid to Israel.</p>
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<p>> there is no free market here whatsoever. The fact that BYD's cost structure is what it is is the direct result of Chinese industrial policy.<p>Aside from countless other ways before and after this, the US government handed over tens of billions of dollars in cash to GM and Chrysler in 2008 and 2009.</p>
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<p>> the baby which merely inherited the money<p>How many babies inherit money?  The earliest heirs usually get access to their inheritance is when they choose to at eighteen.</p>
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<p>> According to the LVT, capital costs are not real.<p>Capital costs are not real in LTV?<p>A carpenter takes wood, nails and hammer and creates value making tables.<p>Hammers are a capital cost and are made the same way - workers are a factory xreate value by assembling steel and other components making a hammer.<p>Steel workers un a steel mill create value by turning iron into steel.<p>Iron miners create wealth by mining iron.<p>And so on.<p>Capital costs are accounted for.  Not turtles all the way down, but labor - newly created value comes from labor.  The value in a hammer comes from the labor to make it a year ago when you bought it.</p>
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<p>> an enemy that isn't concerned with civilian casualties<p>You mean like when the Zionists openly stopped food from getting into Gaza, while the western governments were backing the Zuonists?  Those people concerned with civilian casualties?<p>An enemy unconcerned with civilian casualties, give me a break.</p>
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<p>This happened two years after the US invaded.  In fact the US had encouraged religious Shiite uprising in the south, which is universally acknowledged.  The US military invasion shifting power to mullahs, the Baathist has to make concessions, which they had not for decades before.</p>
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