PureX
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I propose that we apply some of our ingenuity to the problem. Instead of always and only looking to maximize profits.
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Industrial Processing Machinery Rules!
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You're welcome to do that in your own business.
PureX
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Ain't no "we" in your world view, is there.
There is.
But the individual is paramount.
We don't exist to serve & sacrifice for the hive.
If you want to, go right ahead. Just don't demand it of others.
PureX
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"There is", he says, but no, clearly there isn't.
Unlike you, I believe that cooperation & association
are voluntary things, not enforced by the state.
PureX
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Right. Meaning they are things we do only when it's good for me and mine. Not when it's good for everyone. Which is why you think anything else is "force", as opposed to protection.
It's sad that you so dispise cooperating for our collective (and therefor mutual) benefit that you'd have to be 'forced' to do it. But that is how selfish many of us have become under the yoke of capitalism. We really can't conceive of any other way, now.
So easily made sad.
A collective requires cooperation.
It enforces that one do as one is told.
I prefer individual initiative.
PureX
Veteran Member
Again you assume that force is required. It's not. One can work on behalf of our collective well being by choice. We all could. It's sad that you can't even imagine such a thing.
One can indeed work for the hive by choice.
But when you require that all make the same
choice, then coercion is used.
Heyo
Veteran Member
We also have buildings here made from wood, some of them old and in good shape. But we don't call them "houses". They are huts and sheds.
We also have "shacks", "hovels", & such.
Eurostan is going to discover that uninsulated masonry
buildings are spendy things to heat & cool. Their changing
climate & relationship with Russia will yield interesting times.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Who says we have uninsulated buildings? Tradition in northern Germany is a clay brick outer wall and a lime sand brick inner wall with an insulating space in between. That's about the same insulation factor as a god wooden wall.
Pretty spendy construction you got there.
And it results in less useable floor area for
a given building footprint.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Built to last - and doesn't require maintenance for the first 300 years or so. Withstands our local climate (-25 to +40° C, months of rain and the occasional hurricane) without any problem.
No maintenance, eh. No roof repairs.
No furnace or AC replacements.
No plumbing maintenance.
Hogwash!
Making products out of trash!
Heyo
Veteran Member
Obviously I meant the walls. We were talking about walls.
I do little to maintain my walls. Metal siding requires none.
Wood siding only needs painting every decade or so.
Although it can go much longer than that. And I get to
play with colors. (My compound has color coded buildings.)
Another advantage to less expensive construction is when
remodeling. It's easier to demolish & replace or add on.
An awful lot of that goes on here...everyone I know has
done this.