Phigure wrote:Genevieve wrote:It's not an ad hominem when you go on to explain that his family and relatives begged him not to spend any more of their money and that he didn't just 'opt out of having a job', but that he was actually mismanaging funs he had aquired as gifts.
I was correcting your wrong assertion. You're out of arguments and looked for a cartoon to bail you out.
Genevieve wrote:The guy most lefists look to for a lesson on monetary policy is the same guy that never asked himself "maybe it's me and not the money?"
implying that his views on economics and capitalism are wrong just cause he was bad at personal finance, looks like an ad hominem to me
No. I'm not talking about capitalism or economics, but money in specific. Though obviously, money is a big part of economics and the products of free people trading. However...
I originally called him out for being bad with money
and demonizing money at the same time.
You were trying to say that he didn't just 'want to be a wage slave'.
I further expanded that he was trying to live beyond his means with money that was given to him by friends and family and that it had nothing to do with him not wanting to be a 'wage slave'.
And the original point was that Karl Marx wrote a lot about money
in specific and saw money as an "evil". Yet it's curious that he was also terrible at managing money or really earning it. It's not an ad hominem to point out that someone who spends his lifetime mismanaging his finances can never be a fair and balanced source on money.