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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I love this graph, it is an excellent graph

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

1960 - 2020 chart, it's the most up to date one I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ayo not starting at zero >:(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Completely fine as long as the axes are clearly marked and consistently spaced

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

True, but a measure of uncertainty would be nice to see as well. Anything anti-capitalist will be held to a higher standard so we should be in the habit of including errorbars, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

so thats why the empire wants war so bad with literally anyone else

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would suggest that anyone interested in this subject read "The failure of capitalist production", by Andrew Kliman. The author delves into the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in marxist terms, looking especially, but not exclusively, at the 2008 crisis.

I mention this because he uses an analogy that made me understand the tendency for the rate of profit to fall more accurately: like gravity, the rate of profit tends to fall, but that does not mean that all objects on Earth will eventually reach their lowest point with no means of going back up. It is merely a tendency, which capitalism is always fighting back against, and not a deterministic prediction about an absolute low in the rate of profits in the future.

Good meme tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

tendency

imagine not getting it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mention this because running around in a hamster wheel is cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I understand your comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well if you know the system has this tendency to do the same thing over and over again why keep running around in a hamster wheel to keep it spinning?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, I certainly don't benefit from the machinations of capitalism, but, from what I gather, capitalists benefit by enjoying the periods in which profits are high and by destroying capital and consolidating monopolies when they are low. So maybe that's an incentive to continue being the ruling class, I suppose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ya fancy hamster wheel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wasn’t accusing you or anything I’m just like what’s with running in the hamster wheel ???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lol I get it now, I'd just forgotten what I commented

No worries here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It’s absolutely fine

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just need to make "Falling Rate of Profit" bigger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I mean nothing is priced properly so who knows what the actual rate of profit is..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Never seen this, GOATed comrade

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

HEXMARX !!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Dear god, that line's not doing what it's supposed to at all