{"id":87265,"date":"2024-04-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87265"},"modified":"2024-04-05T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:57:55","slug":"theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87265","title":{"rendered":"Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A significant chunk of the far-left clacque that runs politics in the metro are Marxists, either overtly or under the hood.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And an amazing number of them subscribe to the &#8220;Labor Theory of Value&#8221; &#8211; the idea that labor, as opposed to the other three factors (Capitol, Management and Land) is the dispositive factor of production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been challenging adherents for years &#8211; test the theory by taking a group of fast food workers, plopping them on a vacant lot, and seeing if a Hardee&#8217;s springs up around them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an absurd test &#8211; exactly the one the theory deserves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to say nobody had taken the challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it appears that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/some-uber-and-lyft-drivers-say-theyll-start-their-own-rideshare-co-op\/600355084\/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwioh_jqhaGFAxVP4skDHQcOBNEQFnoECBwQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Zp00thlAKjwzWy8nv9c-O\">at least indirectly, someone just might<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant chunk of the far-left clacque that runs politics in the metro are Marxists, either overtly or under the hood. And an amazing number of them subscribe to the &#8220;Labor Theory of Value&#8221; &#8211; the idea that labor, as opposed to the other three factors (Capitol, Management and Land) is the dispositive factor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-dsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87266,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265\/revisions\/87266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}