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halfgod50zilla t1_j21ze08 wrote

I know it isnt your specific question, but I worked during the California Wildfires. They brought in extra beds. If you werent asleep you were working. My shifts could last about 34 hrs before I had to sleep. I could only do that I think twice. Everything else was more of a rotating 20 hrs shift. 20 on, 6 to 10 off. And I mean that for everyone, I wasnt there for more than 4 or 5 days if memory serves me right.

I know the literature says you cant make up for lack of sleep, but I had about 8 days off after that scenario and slept for most of it.

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Jarlentium t1_j21yxq1 wrote

So the relevance is that the amount of mass in the star is what creates the pressure required to create fusion on increasingly heavier elements. So the bigger the star, the heavier the elements it can eventually trigger a fusion reaction with.

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MrSamsonite t1_j21x59s wrote

Good question!

First off, there never was a barter system in any significant way (ie, "I've got one goat and you've got some clogs and we exchange them"). Rather, the assumption that there always must have been a sort of market exchange of goods is modern society projecting its own beliefs onto the past.

In the example above, most tribal societies wouldn't see it as you owning a goat and me owning some clogs. Instead, they would like see us as having (or having access to) a goat and some clogs. If the tribe had things available to it, members of the tribe wouldn't be excluded from them. Concepts like private property, individual ownership and the pursuit of maximizing individual wealth as we know them today are much, much more recent.

One thing to note about most ideas of Anarchist society is that it's very communal (which may seem counterintuitive to people who think anarchy = chaos). The idea is that people work for the benefit of all (which includes themselves) rather than for themselves (which may exclude others).

You're right that such a system would likely gain some efficiency by quantifying labor or goods and services, but that doesn't require money. The key tenet of money that you're missing is that some individual or group owns that abstraction of value (and others do not own it). In a well-functioning anarchist society, the idea is that you wouldn't pay for food or housing or healthcare, for example; rather, these things would be available to you because the members of the society work to provide them to all according to their need.

Obviously there are lots of complexities and uncertainties that such a society would need to navigate, but the main thrust is that if we abolish private property, there is no longer a role for money to play.

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lcenine t1_j21veig wrote

Thank you so much!

So there is no more specific word? That is a little frustrating.

I am going to coin a few words that will make linguists cry as it will separate bits of the Greek but still have relevance:

Viewmonic: A visual reference to remember something important, specifically a visual clue to remind oneself of something that needs to be accomplished.

1: A specific landmark that is followed in directions. (e.g., :"After the large tree on the corner, take the third right".)

2: An item placed in an odd location as a reminder to do something specific. (e.g., "The large red bow wrapped around the door handle reminded them to get their lunch before leaving for work".)

Cuemonic: As above.

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