"Subnormal" is a very vague blunt vocabulary. Anti-social people can make very good workers, their biggest social relations are often those at work, even if they're superficial. And what's more, isolated ppl are entirely dependent on the market for survival
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha
"Subnormal" means (in economic terms) incompetent.
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Replying to @Outsideness @RealEnverHoxha
... "But, but ... no one's really incompetent ... oh frack how does this narrative go?" * increasingly incoherent shrieking from the Cathedral *
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Nice strawman, man, but incompetence has very little to what either Nietzsche, nagle or Marx was talking about. If you're mad ppl are sentimental about their handicapped grandpa, that's fine, has very little to do with our economic and political situation
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha
Differential labor quality has everything to do with our "economic and political situation".
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Replying to @Outsideness
That capital and markets disciplines labor is already a given, one hour of labor in a Norway is worth about one hour of labor in China in terms of productive capability, there are simply greater social standards and thus greater costs and rent of labor in Norway.
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The difference is by and large economic not biological.
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Has biology radically changed in the last 40 years to give the Chinese an edge, or has global capitalism developed?
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha
America banned Chinese immigration in the 1880s because they were too good at surviving under conditions of high-pressure capitalism, remember?
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... The Chinese state (like others, only better) has always sought to lean against the wind. When it stops, in colonial Hong Kong first, then on the mainland from the late 1970s, the cyclone moans.
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