"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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Replying to @Outsideness
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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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @Outsideness
The difference is by and large economic not biological.
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Replying to @Outsideness
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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Replying to @Outsideness
Gee it's almost like the US had a large amount of capital and needed a large amount of cheap labor to use it. Us spics are doing the same thing now, are we biologically superior at surviving in capitalism?
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And, by your logic, why Mexico is now the manufacturing hub of the world -- oh wait.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I don't see you're point, Mexico doesn't have a relatively large amount of capital, it does have some manufacturing since nafta, but mostly for final assembly before hitting American markets. The agricultural sector however was completely destroyed by American competition
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @Outsideness
And guess where all those agricultural laborers went!?
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