Archive for March, 2009

what still stinks in capitalism

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Here are some more capitalist stinkers: In capitalism, everybody’s supposed aim is personal profit, but the humans seek naturally for quality of life instead. There’s no direct link between profit and quality of life, they only intersect somewhere but diverge anywhere else. There’s no need for examples, you can remember them yourself. The reason why [...]

what stinks in capitalism

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

I wrote about the free-market, and shown it to be a fake and a tragedy, so I’ll focus on the real market, which is made of producers-consumers (or worse, sellers-buyers) but doesn’t pretend any kind of equilibrium between the two. A producer (collective or not) cannot set-up a factory overnight to produce what consumers need [...]

language and arithmetics

Friday, March 13th, 2009

The fundamental theorem of arithmetics says that every natural number greater than 1 is a unique product of prime numbers. Numbers are, in fact, words written in a language, and the basic, unambiguous, irreducible, particles of this language are the prime numbers, not the digits, because of the theorem above; this means that factoring a [...]