tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3443397219491102507..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: A MIRACULOUS AFFIRMATION [AND QUITE GENTLE CHSTISEMENT]Robert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-19228851732228130002018-04-03T01:00:25.684-04:002018-04-03T01:00:25.684-04:00What a lovely comment! Best wishes on your studies...What a lovely comment! Best wishes on your studies, anonympus from India!TheDudeDiogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613928663752680375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-92091815287422744342018-04-02T14:24:49.552-04:002018-04-02T14:24:49.552-04:00From yet another anonymous commenter:
Congrats ar...From yet another anonymous commenter:<br /><br />Congrats are in order to Prof. Wolff for his video lectures. These are invaluable even for seasoned university students with resources, not to mention people from across the globe who do not have the same access to high-quality education once-in-lifetime professor like Wolff.<br /><br />As for the specific comment from a viewer from India, I was struck by the often repeated mythical example of captialism working in India and the use of "...a man making millions from trash..."<br /><br />Experience shows that there is no such success due to capitalism in India. Whatever gains one might notice, is entirely due to clever exploitation and not capitalism of the labor theory that Marx is talking about. Many political economists more well-versed in Indian conditions, including some recent Nobel Laureates, have better explanations. Such exploitation-based successes (aided no doubt by the caste system) in India can be traced to a long history going back several centuries, under different political and economic regimes, and is not unique to the economic regime in place since India's independence in 1947.<br /><br />The exploitation in recent years became so acute that the excess profits in a system with no legal way to accumulate turned to hording of currency notes. In fact the evidence on the ground is that exploitation has magnified the problem of the poor in this new global economy of call centers and backoffice operations for the world's businesses. The western businesses they serve may operate in capitalist economies, but the labor and conditions supporting those 24x7 call centers do not. According to one UN study, India is well on track to housing 90% of world's poor in 50 years. <br /><br />A couple of years ago, the TV program, 60 minutes, did a story in an Indian call center. That segment would be very instructive for this discussion. One sound bite that was quite memorable was when they asked an American executive in India why he's there? He said something about how he does not have to deal with employees leaving in the middle of the day to care for a sick child. How about that, a quote that could've come directly from Das Kapital.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-51440364939006037432018-04-02T13:31:21.467-04:002018-04-02T13:31:21.467-04:00What a wonderful experience/comment this must be f...What a wonderful experience/comment this must be for you. The miracle of the internet reaching around the world and into places and minds that good old and standard higher educations institutions could never reach. And the youtube videos! posterity plus.<br /><br />So there must be two "Anonymous" commentators, then, given that one Anonymous has identified himself as David. I liked that <br />Charles Pigeon provided a bio. More important for you, perhaps, but as a reader/commentator, I like it when the rather sterile name metamorphoses into flesh and blood.Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.com