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I think it's a good book but I'm just too stupid to fully understand it.

This is very good

So far I really don't like it.

The willingness of some to take armed defensive action enabled the civil rights movement to sustain itself during the mid-twentieth century.

"I have adventured my life in an endeavor to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause."

Advances in technology produce a surplus worker population, thereby depressing wages. Technology therefore augments the degree to which labor can be exploited.

"When Capital enlists Science into her service, the refractory hand of Labor is taught docility."

The American Evangelical Church is guilty of the modern heresy of Simony: the deployment of the language of faith to secure a position in politics.

Who's ready to learn about heresy? This guy!

When the worker cooperates with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality and develops the capabilities of his species.

To think of disobedient (political) minorities as rebels and traitors is against the very letter and spirit of a Constitution whose framers were especially sensitive to the dangers of unbridled majority rule.

I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.

To do nothing in response to evil but vote against it is to willing accept evil until the majority does not.

It is impossible for a man to live honestly (justly) and at the same time love comfortably.

Capital consumes labor, therefore capital consumes the worker.

And this book is consuming my brain. It's so dense...

I am actually saddened to see this series coming to an end.

The labor withdrawn from the market by death must be continuously replaced by (at least) the equal amount of fresh labor. Therefore the means to sustain labor must include the means necessary for the worker's replacement, in order that labor may perpetuate in the market.

Basically minimum wage needs to be at least enough for the working class to afford to have kids.

Just when I thought Sanderson had lost me with Wind and Truth, he pulls me back in 🤌

Yeah this Mistborn arc is a close second to Stormlight at this point.

Well it took us about 160 pages to get from the concept of barter to money and another 40 to start talking about money supply, so we're making progress.

It's a weirdly readable book despite being drier than a slice of week-old rye bread.

If Stormlight is Sanderson's most badass series, the is his most fun series. I'm really enjoying the story and dialogue.

Bro predicted that diamonds would lose all their value if we invented synthetic diamonds lol

WELL I JUST READ ONE OF THE SADDEST THINGS I'VE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

This series proves that Sando can be legitimately funny without resorting to MCU-esque humor. And forcing him down to 400ish pages really makes the story and dialogue feel snappy and fast-paced. Idk if he changed editors between Mistborn and Stormlight but it feels like a different (better) Sanderson compared to Wind and Truth.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.

This is quite stressful.

"What the borgeoise therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

You know you're in trouble when even the introduction has chapters.

Ngl this feels like homework

Sheesh man

The light at the end of a very depressing tunnel