Slop.

He knows all about what makes value, and understands history and how it unfolded, proving him right again and again. Marxists have never really thought about value before, and history? Marxists have been shown to be wrong over and over again. It's just history, Marxists, sorry if you don't have any framework to understand it.

This one is really causing me to twitch. Usually this kind of thing doesn't get to me, but the deep smugness behind the sheer ignorance, the smarmy certainty in their beliefs that are the exact absolute opposite of reality - it doesn't get more pure than this.

Fuck AI slop, obviously, but the “Grok is this true” schtick is fast becoming a guilty pleasure

Marx for like 3,000 pages: trust me bro, value is just there and we just gotta take it bro

We should be more forgiving. Nick Tyson clearly finished reading volumes 1-3, but forgot the first half of vol 1 as it was at the beginning of his journey.

No wonder the idea guy is always asking for 50%

is this an example of a valuable idea created by a talented person?

what value, Gentle Nicholas, did the market assign this valuable idea? surely it is worth millions upon millions and yet you have chosen to give it away, like a turd-eating child of fools.

clearly you should keep these gems to yourself and only exchange them, quietly, with the wealthy aristocrats that can afford the splendor of your mind-diamonds.

And he ends the statement with a sprinkle of great man theory

Um, actually, Marx never wrote about "value" at all. He does have a bunch of texts about something called "Wert," which if I'm not mistaken is a non-cancerous form of viral growth usually occurring on the hands or feet.

Talented people with ideas? Clearly, he must be referring to workers.

Capital volume 1 chapter 1: still managing to foresee and address reactionary “got-ya” moments 158 years later.

Faker Theory of Value

That beard is not hidding anything, Nick

I did not spend hours of my life listening to somebody rant about linen in an audiobook to see somebody say Marx doesn't know what the fuck "value" is

I've never seen a more pristine example of a straw man, let alone in the wild. Value is fundamental to what constitutes Marxist theory. It's like claiming Garfield hates pasta. Even beyond the strawman, I'm reminded of this quote

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops" - Stephen Jay Gould

At which point he's going to pivot to "Capitalism lifts people out of poverty" and "it's not 0 sum" and "it's not violent, only the state is violent because starvation is a baseline" so the beauty would be wasted on him.

Conservatives believe value is pulled from the aether by priests who are capable of communing with factories.

This really is an incredibly pure gem of ideology

The lazy bourgeois economist's "takedown" of Marxism inevitably rests on dodging the arguments, because if you take Marxism dead-on they get bodied.

the value of healthcare and housing is non-obvious to the people, you need innovation. Which is why i'm launching my rent price derivatives in la on the blockchain, so that people can reduce exposure to housing prices

Marx failed to consider the very thing, he, wrote thousands of pages about. Tragic really.