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Oh wow a bunch of people independently decided to chop cedar trees while a bunch of independent people also decided to make graphite and everyone did this just because they kinda felt like it I dunno. It must be a magical invisible hand.
What the fuck is capitalist exploitation you stupid marxist
What the fuck do you mean this is driven by separate classes struggling with one another, this is specifically about how there's no government department of pencils. Yes there are government insured banks, public roadways, government subsidies, laws, patents, and a bunch of other state agencies that operate to sustain capitalism. But what doesn't exist is this very silly idea of a pencil tsar that I just made up to obfuscate the reality of how labor operates. Meaning I'm the intellectual victor