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Richard Dawkins:Lecture1. Waking up in the universe (2 of 7)

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Fibonaccie (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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okay I am not against Dworkin, but I don't get the argument. He said after one week bacteria would be a billion times more than the number of known atoms in the universe. (well that's exponential growth), but doesn't bacteria consist out of atoms? So may be I don't get the argument, but when there are so many bacteria more than atoms in the universe, then there have to be more atoms in the bacteria than in the ... uh I don't get it... look at 0:55 and explain it to me
DrMontague (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Theoretically this would happen. Listen on a bit further where he states: needless to say it doesn't happen to the same extent , after a point natural factors come to regulate the size of the population of bacteria.
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gregrutz (6 months ago) Show Hide
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So if I was a billionaire and I feed all the starving people of the world, what would happen.
They would get hungry next week and so would I.
DrMontague (6 months ago) Show Hide
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But not because there is a shortage of food, the system denies people food unless they have money. Suppose two people were shipped wrecked and ended up on a desert island. One takes biscuits and water, the other takes gold coins. The island has no food. The gold therefore becomes useless. Only under certain econmomic circumstances do humans give value to gold.
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For gold to traded for food means people must recognise it as something other tan metal. Offer a dog a biscuit or a nugget of gold it will take a biscuit, it sees no point in the metal. Therefore humans give gold a sort of mystical quality. Gold as money must represent something. This something is human labour in the abstract. Any commodity is a product of human labour, if gold gives you food then it has to represent human labour. Money is the same i.e, human labour in the abstract.
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For one person to have so much money requires that he must have been able some how to acquire other peoples labour. namely through exploitation. this is the reason people in third world countries can work 18 hoiurs a day and still be in poverty, their labour is taken off them in the form of company profit. mostly by Western Multinational companies. The poor do not get the reward of their hard labour the exploiters do.
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This led millions of people going to war, the capitalists indocrinated the working class to fight imperialist wars. in the belief that it was for their benefit. People in Europe and America are again fearful of losing their jobs, houses etc.
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BTW the car example was simply used to demonstrate the myth of shortage and that food shortage as is the notion of an over crowded world.

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