#yurinullification

[txttletale]

Hi! So, i'm going through Capital, great little obscure book sad that it never got any wide-reaching support (/s), have a couple questions so far though if you wouldn't mind giving some time to answer them:

What does Marx mean when he talks about 'unskilled labor' in relation to 'skilled labor'? Doesn't the vast majority of labor, even things like factory work, require training to do and especially to become good/efficient at? In the passage where he mentioned it he also mentions that (some, not all) unskilled labor, in sufficient quantities, can equal skilled labor but like. this doesn't really make any sense if its just, say, factory work vs idfk tailoring or something. So i'm a bit confused. Or is he talking about what i just mentioned where when you start out doing something you're unskilled but gradually become better at it as you do it more and more?

Who the hell is Ricardo?

factory work requires training to do, sure, but it's an order of magnitude less training than it took to learn to do those jobs before the introduction of the factories--on the level of, say, a few weeks (at absolute maximum) of training, done alongside actual work, before being fully able to work in a furniture factory, as opposed to the actual years of apprenticeship it historically took to become a carpenter. being unskilled doesn't mean that nobody can be good at a job, but it does mean, essentially, that you could grab any random person off the street and have them doing it within a week.

this distinction isn't there to be moralized about but to concretely analyze the different economic positions of these jobs--if your job is unskilled, you are going to be paid worse and have less secure employment, because you are easy to replace and the number of people looking to replace you are also competing against you to work for the lowest wages, driving your wages down. you're also paid less because the cost of reproducing your labour (the core determiner of the 'base price' of wages) is much lower. when an e.g. surgeon gets paid highly, their employer (whether the state or a capitalist) is essentially paying them more to retroactively pay for their extensive years of training.

this distinction is at its most clear when it comes to the concept of deskilling, which is crucial to marx's understanding of the industrial revolution -- with the introduction of machinery, years and years of learning how to do something by hand could be replaced with weeks of learning how to operate a machine. this deskilled huge sections of the economy and proletarianized the artisans and manufacturers who formerly did that work by making them dependent on the machines owned by factory workers. deskilling is the mechanism by which advancements in productive technology paradoxically make the jobs of those working in those fields more precarious and onerous even as the task itself becomes much easier, so it's pretty important to understand for an understanding of historical materialism.

david ricardo was a 19th century economist who advanced the ideas first laid forward by adam smith re: the labour theory of value and was the first to postulate (although without addressing the signficant political implications of this!) that real wages had an inverse relationship to real profits. marx draws heavily on his ideas but is also critical of them. capital is subtitled 'a critique of political economy' -- ricardo is a key figure in the field of political economy that he's critiquing.

[sbnkalny]

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[yuriinullification]

Is yuri “dei”fication a DEI pun or is it just deification straight up

Deification straight up. It's a madoka kaname type situation you get it

[yuribeam]

mutuals to put on ur christmas tree

merry christmas to those who celebrate! thank u for enriching my enclosure via the blue site n I hope everyone has a good holiday/break/new year :-)

@atomicwinterwonderland @thedeliaishere @emma-the-rose @ang3lic-stardust @my-precious-hellscape @haku23 @hatake @joy-drops @flowergirlmiwa @ninefoldrin @garfieldildo @seaguanaisland @yurinullification @fridaycrewandtheavocadoofdeath @white-chalk-sapphomet @kikurihiroienjoyer @crossroadsbishounen @clockworkwillow @homunyas @gothambunny @lesbibimbap @wooperdontcare @pidgemidge @jacqylfrost

(blank if anyone wants to make their own silly little mutual tree)

[astralilium]

9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

Thanks @nature-nerd-sarah here are my responses

Favourite Colour: Was red for a while but ive been feeling purple more so recently

Currently Reading: I Favour the villainess (Light Novel), Yamada to Kase-san, Whispering You a Love Song, The Locked Tomb, a bunch of other ongoing manga whenever they update

Last Series: The last one I finished was gwitch, and I'm currently watching Revue Starlight and Heartstopper season 2

Sweet, Savoury or Spicy?: All of them, whichever one or combination I want depends on how im feeling at the time

Currently Working on: Looking for a job, improving at bass guitar and I still need to get around to the gunpla that I havent finished

Tagging: @mysteryjune @yurinullification @alyssadotmp3 @itznarcotic @lynnrespawn @alleggnobasket @greatjoy @sarahthechill @bog-beth

[revolutionaryletters]

nine people I’d like to know better! tagged by @rogersandclarke thank u :3333

last song- madonna sean and me (expressway to yr soul) by sonic youth

fav color- orange 🐅🧡🍑🍊🎃🥕✴️🧶

currently watching- im also watching the mr & mrs smith miniseries! also drag race also rewatching mad men with some friends and I just started rewatching skam lol

spicy/savory/sweet- perhaps savory…

relationship status- boyfriended

current obsession- hijab butch blues by lamya h ❤️

9 people to tag- @bocceclub @yurinullification @secretdoorgf @thelambliesdown1974 @murderballadeer @brutefury @drlivistoned @danielkahndyke @mostcovetedbird and umm the girl reading this <3 as well

[catgirlcommissar]

Tagged by @huayouzi

5 albums I like. (It was supposed to be songs but I like albums better)

1. Best of the red army choir discs 1 and 2

2. Exmilitary death grips

3. Twilight bôa

4. Permanent revolution catch 22

5. 10,000 gecs

Tagging 10 people Yay yay!

@nmri @yurinullification @molsno @ladygolgotha @mothvessel @psychotrenny @ifihadbones @koloocheh @noellegoesmeow @eviltransnecoarc

Thats 10!

[qualapi]

tagged by @yurinullification to give 5 albums i like right now. thank u for the tag! <3

eureka, Kinoko Teikoku

BIMBOCORE VOL. 2, Scene Queen

Get To Heaven (Deluxe), Everything Everything

Nurture, Porter Robinson

Digital Meadow, Dora Jar I'll be tagging 5 instead of 10! @communist-hatsunemiku @an-ambient-girl @transgender-shimarin @matzahstein @alice-hastur

[limewiremother]

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[txttletale]

Do you run vic3 vanilla or are there any mods you like?

this is whati used last time i played. that said i havent played since they annoucned spheres of power

[sbnkalny]

When the king dies who shall step up to inherit her throne?

Hey, come step up to the ceiling.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

Tagged in by @yurinullification! I'm always hesitant to tag folks in these but love to be known better.

Favorite color: I like a deep, soft red quite a bit, at least when it comes to things I wear.

Currently reading: Umineko, it's got more text than the bible so I feel like I can say I'm reading it, even if it is fully voiced and kind of animated. I've got a bunch of proper books on hold that I need to get back to as well.

Last series: Been enjoying Dark Gathering quite a bit, it's fun!

Sweet, savoury or spicy? I'd say savory but only because salty isn't an option. I'm always craving that mineral.

Currently working on: Work-work. I'm a reporter so I write a lot during the work day and wind up not feeling motivated to do much creative stuff in my downtime, but I'm trying to improve my photography skills a bit and that's fun.

[yuriinullification]

guess who just got terminated

hi, i was @yurinullification.

shocking news:

tumblr doesn't ban the zionists who literally make and distribute a list of people it's legally okay to harass i guess but does ban the trans woman that, like. spammed their document a bit with suggestions? and that's it? as if that's even "targeted abuse" like what the fuck genuinely fuck off

fuck this site

too tired to do anything right now but i'd really appreciate if everyone that wanted to could reblog this post so i could find my old mutuals

thank you

[yuribeam]

tagged by @yurinullification for 5 albums I like! tyy ❤️

the eternal classic on repeat i always have to sing along to, self titled Hozier

Psychopomp, Japanese Breakfast. reading her book crying in hmart made this even better ❤️‍🩹

Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me! I got to see Against Me! with my gf a few years ago it was a very sweet t4t date night 🥹

Ephemera, Little Green Cars. not much to say about this one it's just a good one to listen to when I can't make a decision. and my name's in this song so they get points for that

Bury Me At Makeout Creek, Mitski. I love all her albums I've listened to, have not listened to the new one yet bc I am already crying enough lol

ok I'm actually doing 6 bc I need to add Salt by Angie McMahon. didn't know who she was until we saw her open for Hozier, charming little Aussie woman steps on the stage and opens up with this huge voice in person oh my god. great compliment to hoziers music too he never misses with the openers

tagging @emma-the-rose @ang3lic-stardust @garfieldildo @thedeliaishere @hatake @haku23 @sundancefemme @jacqylfrost @transgender-ventilation-duct @white-chalk-sapphomet

[lakesbian]

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADD A REPLY TO THE RB ON MOBILE BUT I AGREE WITH COMMENTATOR YURINULLIFICATION'S POINT THAT ATLAS HAS A LARGER BRAIN DUE TO HIS SIZE. SANDWORMS ARE MUCH LARGER THAN ATLAS BUT PERHAPS STILL POSSIBLE FOR HER

COULD TAYLOR CONTROL THE SAND WORMS FROM DUNE?

THEY SEEM TOO LARGE TO HAVE THE INCREDIBLY SIMPLE NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT HER POWER EXPLOITS EVEN IF IT'S SIMPLE RELATIVE TO THEIR SCALE SO I FEEL LIKE NO BUT I WOULD BE OPEN TO ARGUMENTS OTHERWISE

[txttletale]

so i know you've shared your thoughts on cohost but do you have any on bluesky? personally it just seems like a worse twitter, down to it basically having the same layout lmao. still not sure what the actual appeal is supposed to be

the appeal is i think pretty straightforwardly that its 'twitter that works'. i would call it a better twitter because it does not (yet) have an incurable infestation of spambots, or a paid service that boosts all the dumbest idiots in the wortld to the top[ of any reply section.