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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The version I remember being told had the first little pig just look around and see straw, the second little pig had to go gather sticks from the nearby woods, and the third little pig had to actually make the bricks over days.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Amazing how all of this is purely labour and no capital.

But capitalist parasites keep shilling it

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“Capital” would be:

  1. whatever oven or kiln the 3rd pig is using to make the bricks

  2. how the 3rd pig is getting paid / eating during the lengthier time it takes for him to make bricks and then build a more labor intensive construction

But thanks for playing

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. in the story, he dried them in the sun.

  2. the story says the pigs who did less work spent the days playing not getting paid and buying food

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No man that sun drying shit is expansion universe, not canon. And the author has said himself that pig 3 was on retainer for a masonry company.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So all capital is sourced from labour?

Hmmm

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No some of the capital that paid for the pig’s upkeep during his build period was the proceeds from natural resources that were conserved during a season of plenty to be sold in a time of scarcity. If you want to call eating less in the summertime “labor” with a capital L you can while I sit here and laugh. Capital is just liquidity. You can generate it by labor but that doesn’t make it the same as labor or the property of others who have labor to give.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mental gymnastics to justify bootlicking B strong here 🤡

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kindergarten marxism be strong over there. 😂🫡

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 11 hours ago

I am not a Marxist and my comment history speaks for itself.

Can't even muster up a proper come back based on doctrine tho sad