In ancient Athens, olive pomace, the solid byproduct of olive oil extraction, was historically utilized as a fuel source, particularly for heating and cooking. Its use as fuel was particularly important during the Roman era due to increased urbanization and early industrial activities, which led to the development of markets for imported pomace. The pomace could be dried in the sun or processed into charcoal for burning.
Pareto distinguishes between two types of Capitalists which Socialist writers typically conflate he says writers have confused, and persist in confusing, under the term Capitalists. One, owners of savings and persons who live on interest from property. And two, promoters of enterprise, entrepreneurs. In reality, these two sorts of Capitalists often have interests that are diametrically opposed and stand in even greater conflict than the interests of the classes known as Capitalist and Proletariat.
From the economic standpoint, it is to the advantage of the man of enterprise, the entrepreneur, that the interest on savings and another Capital that he borrows should be the lowest possible. It is to the interest of the saver that it should be as high as possible. The promoter of enterprise profits when the goods he produces go up in price. While rises in the prices of commodities are of slight importance to him, he finds compensation in the profits netted by his own goods. But all such increases in price are to the loss of the mere saver. Tax imposts on the goods he produces do little harm to the entrepreneurs. In fact, they are sometimes an advantage in that they scare off competition. But they are always injurious to the consumer, whose income derives from lending of savings at interest. In general, the owner of enterprise can always pass on to the consumer the increase in cost that results from heavy taxes. The mere saver almost never can.
Pareto's careful consideration between the functions of the entrepreneur and the pure capitalist anticipates the Austrian School of Economics in interesting ways. The model of artificially low interest rates which cheap credit, high time preference, and immediate consumption adopted by Western governments since the second half of the 20th century has been to the advantage of promoters of enterprise and to the disadvantage of the owners of savings.
...and James Lindsey's Rebuttal @@
1) Progress is largely an illusion. Democracy is impossible, though useful as a myth to deceive the masses.
2) Society is inevitably ruled by oligarchs who hold their position be means of force and fraud, and whose sole objective is power and still more power for themselves. No revolution means more than a change of rulers.
3) Man, as a political animal, is involved soley by selfish motives, except so far as he is under the influence of myths.
4) Conscious planned actions for the good of the community is impossible, since each group is simply trying to secure its' own advantage.
5) Politics is, and can be, nothing except a struggle for power.
6) Human equality, human fraternity are empty phrases.
7) All moral codes are "idealistic" conceptions of politics, all visions of a better society in the future lies, conscious or unconscious, covering the naked struggle for power.
Notice that there's no Lindseyian "should rule" in the above. There's only "do rule". It's the "Pareto Principle" (focus on the 20%...):
The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, states that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. This principle suggests that a small portion of inputs or efforts usually accounts for the majority of results or outcomes. It's a concept with broad applications, from business and economics to personal productivity and time management, highlighting the importance of identifying and focusing on the most impactful factors....the 20% who constitute "The de facto Elite"
1. I take NO MONEY from ANYBODY, not even MY READERS
2. There is Generation from Opposites (Socratic Method)
3. I don't Make Strawmen Out of the "Asleep Right", I Attempt to Psycho-Analyze Them
4. I've "Appropriated" Marx, not Condemned Him
5. I Deny the Dialectical Poles and Advocate "Meden Agan" and Avoid James' "Dialectical Trap"! I live in the L->R Horseshoe's Gap/ Abyss
6. James Doesn't Understand that 'Woke" is Psychologically an Identity Technology formed through White Guilt-Pride based in Post-Colonialism and Racial Essentialism, a Vulgar Marxist Heresy and not a Form of the "original" Marxist Class Dialectic
7. The Problem is that James is Blind to the Pitfalls of Capitalism. Marx was NOT.
8. I'm not SELLING ANYTHING but GIVING AWAY Common Sense I'm a Dialectical Universalist NOT a Polar Partisan The Goal of a Dialectic is to Arrive at Truth, not Rhetorically Gain Converts for any Particular Group's Power Base.
It occurs to me that we have regulated the masculine manifestations of aggression through laws against direct aggression but we have not, and frankly cannot, regulate the feminine manifestations of indirect aggression. Shame, rallying, gossip, and character assassination are examples of the feminine manifestations of aggression. You can't really create laws against relational and social aggression, not enforceable ones.
James Joyce is a central figure in modernist literature, known for his innovative use of language and narrative techniques, particularly stream-of-consciousness, in works like Ulysses. Modernism, as a broader literary movement, emerged from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reacting against Victorian traditions and embracing new forms of expression in response to a rapidly changing world. Joyce's work embodies key modernist characteristics, such as a focus on individual experience, subjective reality, and a rejection of traditional narrative
“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”
"I had to be restrained, because I was doing too much good."
