neo [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • It’s a kitchen illustration. It completely demolishes Marx in just a couple paragraphs. What more do you ask for!?

    Heinlein goes on to define Value a bit more to make his point, but I can’t be assed to go find the quote again. But his point here is that effort is worthless and only the result of the effort matters. But it’s such a joke of a point that I’d have assumed it was satire, if not for the fact that nothing else about the book is satire.


  • Heinlein couldn’t help himself though and had to really epically DEMOLISH Marx

    He had been droning along about “value,” comparing the Marxist theory with the orthodox “use” theory. Mr. Dubois had said, “Of course, the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart; it remains a mud pie, value zero. By corollary, unskillful work can easily subtract value; an untalented cook can turn wholesome dough and fresh green apples, valuable already, into an inedible mess, value zero. Conversely, a great chef can fashion of those same materials a confection of greater value than a commonplace apple tart, with no more effort than an ordinary cook uses to prepare an ordinary sweet.

    “These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value—the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives—and illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.”

    So he’s at least making the political alignment of his future earth much clearer with this.



  • Seeing this 2011-era pic has me thinking of the AVGN theme

    he’s gonna take you back to the past
    to see the ancient memes that suck ass

    he’d rather have a pedobear
    take a diarrhea dump in his ear

    PS I don’t think the Jackie Chan pic sucks, but I had to go with the song.