1:00 Shifty SIGMA and the power of consciousness
3:00 Matilde Ludendorff and miracles
5:00 Atheism and nihilism
6:00 Language and philosophy
Miracles affirm the existence of God.
8:00 Levitation, technology or a sorcery
Ludendorff's deity tried to better the Abrahamic Go.
10:00 Teleology
11:00 Thule Society
12:00 Pantheism
13:00 God is separate from His Creation.
14:00 A toilet has utility.
15:00 If God is only a figment of our imagination, could it be more powerful than its Creator?
Ideas don't die.
16:00 The utility of the Abrahamic God
17:00 Maintenance
18:00 We need not make a god of our appetites.
19:00 Idolaters have more chaotic societies.
Thirty Years War
20:00 The Reformation
21:00 The role of religion
The problem of politics and religion
22:00 Politics is about deciding who is right and who is wrong, who is in and who is out.
Ludendorff's pantheism
23:00 Immanent and transcendent
24:00 The Abrahamic God is separate from His Creation.
25:00 Christianity has been useful for Western imperialism.
26:00 Pantheism is materialist but amoral.
27:00 Is God good?
29:00 Teleporting in Vedanta
30:00 The existence of God is unfalsifiable.
31:00 The Abrahamic God as a self-correcting moral system.
32:00 Fair enough and good enough
You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.
33:00 Clever people can be creative with false reasons.
34:00 The Noahide laws invites universal agreement.
36:00 Usury
37:00 The Noahide laws are not quite halal enough.
The dollar is backed by the military might of America.
38:00 Rules are made to be broken.
39:00 The rules are there to assist us in determining causation.
40:00 Matriarchy or matriarchy? Society finches or canaries?
41:00 Monogamy is stable.
42:00 AI
Falling rate of profit
The falling rate of profit is a concept from Marxist economics, articulated by Karl Marx in Capital, Volume III. It describes a tendency in capitalist economies for the rate of profit to decline over time as a result of the internal dynamics of capital accumulation.
Key Points:
- Definition: The rate of profit is the ratio of surplus value (profit) to the total capital invested (both constant capital, like machinery, and variable capital, like wages). Marx argued that this rate tends to fall as capitalism develops.
- Cause: The primary driver is the increasing organic composition of capital—the ratio of constant capital (machinery, technology) to variable capital (labor). As capitalists invest in technology to boost productivity and compete, they rely less on labor, which is the source of surplus value. Since only labor creates new value, the proportion of surplus value relative to total capital decreases, lowering the profit rate.
- Formula:
- Rate of profit =
\frac{\text{Surplus Value}}{\text{Constant Capital} + \text{Variable Capital}} - As constant capital grows faster than variable capital, the denominator increases relative to the numerator, reducing the rate.
- Counteracting Factors: Marx noted factors that can temporarily offset this tendency, such as:
- Increasing exploitation of labor (e.g., longer hours, lower wages).
- Reducing the cost of constant capital (e.g., cheaper technology).
- Expanding markets or imperialism to extract new sources of value.
- Crises that destroy capital, resetting the cycle.
- Implications: Marx saw the falling rate of profit as a structural contradiction in capitalism, contributing to economic crises, stagnation, and class struggle, potentially hastening the system's collapse.
Critiques and Relevance:
- Critics argue the tendency is not universal, pointing to periods of rising profits or the role of innovation in sustaining profitability.
- Supporters see evidence in long-term economic stagnation or recurring crises, though empirical data is mixed due to counteracting factors.
The concept remains a cornerstone of Marxist analysis, often debated in discussions of capitalist dynamics and economic crises.
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