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fbwzoo · 2 years

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Hey- I was wondering if there's any way I can help/contribute to the effort to end/change wild caught trade? I would love to be a part of something so cool

I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED. Thank you for activating info dump mode, I hope you enjoy your experience!

There are SO many ways to help work towards changing/ending hermit crab wild capture. Some may not seem as connected as others, but they all help with the overall goal of educating people about hermit crabs, valuing them, and respecting nature.

The more we can teach people that they shouldn't be cheap "disposable" pets, that they can live for decades instead of months, and how the wild caught trade is decimating populations, the less demand there will be for it. Play to your strengths and do what you can. Even small things make a difference!

(This post will have a ton of links, so please share since it'll probably get blocked from tags!)

Casual Advocating

- share a cool fact with class or with your friends! "Hermit crabs can live over 40 years" "Hermit crabs can lose legs due to stress, but can grow them back when molting" "Hermit crabs live in the ocean as zoea (babies) for up to a month before they become land hermit crabs" ...I could go on & on. 😂

- Remind friends & family not to bring hermit crabs home from beach shops, & not to take shells off the beach. Sometimes they have marine hermits in them, even if they look empty. These crabs will die without an established saltwater aquarium or being returned to the beach.

- Know someone interested in getting hermit crabs? Try to gently steer them away from pet stores & tell them about Land Hermit Crab Owners Society's adoption program! Or if they already have crabs, ask if they've heard of LHCOS & Crab Street Journal (original site), or send them to the websites or Facebook group for science-backed care info.

- If you know a teacher who wants to get a classroom pet, or maybe already has some crabs as classroom pets, tell them about the Claws in the Classroom program! They can get lots of help with a proper set up & free supplies for their crabs, as well as activity sheets & lesson plans. Having crabs in a classroom can be a big commitment, but LHCOS is happy to help, as it's a wonderful way to show kids proper care & teach them how cool hermit crabs are. Many beach stores and pet shops target kids with the bright painted (and toxic) shells, so we gotta beat them to their audience!

- Simply show people pictures of the captive bred babies! They're so freaking adorable, it's hard not to fall in love with them. 🥰

(Pictures all from Mary Akers' site)

More Direct Advocating

Some of these things may require being more involved in the crabby community or going out of your way with time & materials. If you want to advocate in person with events & pet stores, make sure you stay polite, friendly, and helpful! LHCOS aims to educate people without making them defensive or alienating others from our mission.

- Talk to pet stores in your area. See if they're willing to check out LHCOS, or make some changes to improve the store set up. Chain stores may be more limited with this, but it's worth a try. Independent pet stores may be willing to listen & learn about what supplies to promote over others, or even to avoid carrying hermit crabs at all. CSJ has printable info sheets you can offer, including a pet store appeal letter.

- Spread care information. On Craigslist in the pet section, on Facebook, on other social media. Make a post in your neighborhood FB group about not buying crabs at the beginning of the summer. I know someone who recently started putting business cards with LHCOS info next to the hermit crab supplies in chain pet stores. Hand out info at local pet events in your town!

- Contact people in charge. Hermit crabs are often still used as prizes at carnivals and fairs, and crab races are sometimes included at these events. If you hear about an event doing this, contact those in charge and try to educate them. Ask them to cancel or discontinue the use of hermit crabs in these things. It's especially prevalent around beach towns. We have a group member who has tried for years to get a Miss Crustacean Pageant in her area to stop exploiting hermit crabs, but no luck yet. But she still goes every year to hand out care information to whoever will take it.

- Attend Crab Con! It's absolutely amazing. You can get lots of great deals on food, supplies, & hermit crab merch, and spend the whole weekend learning & talking about hermit crabs! What's not to love? It's going to be in person in Virginia in 2023, but there will be an online part as well, for everyone who can't make the trip!

- Rescue crabs in your area! Check craigslist, kijiji, and similar sites. Facebook banned animal sales, but I still found my new crab on marketplace. Just be prepared to deal with crabs in poor condition - look up the Post Purchase Death Reduction method and learn what to do for limb loss, surface molts & naked crabs.

- Adopt crabs from the LHCOS adoption program, or adopt captive bred babies. This can be a great way to get crabs that are healthier than rescues. If you're able to adopt from those who do a lot of rescue work, you also free up space for them to help more crabs in need. Adopting captive bred babies obviously helps support the breeding program. Plus, you get hermit crabs that have never been abused or neglected! They've been loved & cared for since day 1. Just make sure you join the FB group for baby crab owners! They have some specific needs that are a bit different from bigger crabs.

- Volunteer with LHCOS. This is one where you'll need to be in the community for some time first, and you'll need to be reliable. But if you're really interested in hermit crabs and want to get involved, you can look into becoming a local representative for the organization, or becoming one of the educational people who go to reptile shows with a LHCOS booth. There may be other areas that need help, but Stacy would be the one to contact about that once you've been around a bit.

- Donate! Saved this for last bc there's a bunch of different places and ways you can donate. All of these are important parts of the overall mission!

Mary Akers, founder of Hermit House Captive Breeding

Darcy Madsen, certified breeder with Hermit House & runs Crab Central Station YouTube (second link is their website)

Land Hermit Crab Owners Society

Claws in the Classroom, you can donate money through the LHCOS PayPal above, or you can contact Stacy/LHCOS about donating supplies.

Shell donations - The Classroom program can often use shell donations to give teachers. There are also 3 different people who currently work to provide wild hermit crabs with safe shells in Taiwan, Japan, and Florida, USA! Scroll down that link for their addresses.

Painted shells - you can donate these for use with educational booths with the address listed here.

LHCOS & Mary also have stores where they sell hermit crab supplies & merch, if you want to grab some cool stuff while supporting them! The other stores on that list all sell safe hermit crab supplies, and many of us do rescue, advocacy, & donate to CITC as well.

I know this was a LONG answer, but there's just so many ways to make a difference for hermit crabs! It takes an army to stand up for these amazing little guys. I hope this helps and you can join me in being known as a weird hermit crab person!!

#hermit crabs #land hermit crabs #invertebrates #conservation #petblr #wildlife trade #wildlife conservation #long post #land hermit crab owner Society #hermit crab breeding #hermit crab advocating #gif warning

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happycrabitat · 23 days

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Beach and fair season is coming~ which means hermit crabs will be marketed as vacation souvenirs & prizes at state & county fairs. Let’s dive into what hermit crabs truly need to thrive. They can live 40-50 years with proper care. Hermit crabs make really cool pets & have individual personalities. They are sentient beings. If you need help with your hermit crabs we have a FB group- Hermit Crab Lovers. There’s also lots of other fb groups, Crab Central Station, Crab Street Journal, & Land Hermit Crab Owners Society that will help you! I also have a blog at happycrabitat.net If you need help making feeding time easy I sell healthy hermit crab food & complete meals at happycrabitat.etsy.com

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landhermitcrabowners-blog · 2 months

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LHCOS Welcomes New Board Member

The Land Hermit Crab Owners Society is thrilled to announce the addition of a new board member, Michelle Stephens. Michelle Stephens – formerly Naturally Crabby – was a dedicated crab keeper until young kids and a cold and drafty house forced her to close down the crabitat. She is now a professor in the midwest, her kids are grown, but her house is still drafty, so she admires the hermit crabs…

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crabstreet · 2 years

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Be sure to subscribe to the Crab Con channel on YouTube so you can easily find the presentations from prior years! https://www.youtube.com/c/CrabCon/videos

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thecrabcave · 2 years

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Hi! Welcome to the blog. If you would like to learn more about hermit crabs, check out the links below!

My Personal Recommendations (for info/community, products, Small Businesses/Etsy Sellers, etc.)

Info/community

Facebook groups and pages:

Land Hermit Crab Owners Society (Tons of helpful information and a friendly community)

Care and Keeping of Hermit Crabs (has tons of step-by-step infographics and a friendly community)

Crabcon Facebook Page!! (Check out the page for more info, fyi it will be online this year, but you’ll still need to buy tickets)

Mary Aker’s Facebook Page (she is one of the few that has successfully captive-bred hermit crabs!)

Websites

Hermit Crab Association (forums: guides, information, great community)

The Crab Street Journal (I met the lady who runs this at a reptile show, she’s super sweet! Her website has a bunch of info, guides, and tutorials)

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Products

Reptilebasic’s Ultratherms

You can safely insulate these heating pads, unlike Reptitherms from the pet store. You can also remove and reuse them

They also have heat tape, which I will be trying soon, since their ultratherms are hard to come by right now

UPDATE 4/6/22: The heat tape is working great! If you go this route, just be sure to use a thermostat to avoid a fire risk. To the best of my knowledge, the probe goes in between the heat tape and the outside of the glass. If you put it inside the tank, the crabs may pick at the wiring. Because the probe is not inside the tank, you’ll need to mess around with the temperature you set the thermostat in order to get the inside of the tank to the appropriate temperature. For example, mine are set at 98-100 degrees F in order to get the middle of the tank on the inside at around 78 degrees. Like I said, you’ll have to mess with it.

Hamster wheel

I don’t have a favorite brand, just make sure whatever you buy has no metal on it (metal can rust and cause harm to your crabs).

Seachem Prime

Instant Ocean brand salt

…Will add more as I think of them

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crabcentralstation · 4 years

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🚨 Important Hermit Crab Care Update!🚨

In the past, raw honey has been seen as a “healing food” for sick or injured crabs. Through research, the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society (LHCOS) has realized that this is a misnomer and there is no such thing as a “healing food”. All safe foods for hermit crabs are beneficial and necessary for the health of your crabs.

From LHCOS Mods:

“Honey is unnecessary and can be dangerous to ill, dehydrated and stressed out crabs. Legs get stuck and are dropped. Gills get clogged up and that's how they breathe.”

We are no longer recommending you feed pure raw honey to your hermit crabs as a food source for the reasons above. It is too dangerous. This does not mean it is poisonous if eaten, but the sticky nature of honey can hurt the crab on the outside. Bee pollen can be used as a substitute for raw honey.

We have recommended people to feed raw honey in the past, but part of owning an animal is updating your methods as new research comes out. It is our job to keep you updated as well on new research and findings. Caring for animals is not linear. It is constantly changing and so we have to constantly work to improve the care we provide for our animals.

(Photo from: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No-honey.svg)

#crab #hermit crab #animalblr #animals #aquarium #crustacean #hermit crab basics #hermit crab care #hermit crab set up #hermit crabs

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muchadoaboutcrabs-blog · 4 years

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The first time I came across hermit crabs as a pet I was like... Ten years old or something. I don't know, but I was little. I loved showing off the little guy, but unsurprisingly it died not too long after I had gotten it. But I was young, uninformed and unprepared.

Now I am 23 years old and have 12 hermit crabs that are lively and very healthy. Of course, when I decided to try my hand at having them again I was still both uninformed and unprepared for the truth of being a hermit crab parent.

I got the first four near the middle of 2019 and since then they have nearly doubled in size. My very first tank set-up at the time was abysmal at best. I had maybe four inches of sand, with a tiny bit of Eco Earth barely mixed in, poor humidity and heat, water dishes that hardly held any water, and tons of pet shop sold items that I didn't know was actually toxic and slowly killing them. I have a picture of this set-up attached.

Needless to say, I had no clue what I was doing but I did know I loved the little guys. So I got on Facebook and joined the first two hermit crab groups I found; Land Hermit Crab Owners Society and Hermit Crab Owner's. If I hadn't of found these two groups, then those four crabs would not have survived with me for as long as they have so far.

A steep learning curve, trial and error, and nine crabs later I'm where I'm at now. But that doesn't mean I'm not still learning, in fact I learn something new every day still and likely always will with them.

They are in no way an easy, throw away pet.

Yes, I did my math correctly if the number 9 confused you as 9+4 is 13 and not 12. One of the hermit crabs I got from the pet store died within a few days of me bringing them home. I had named them Jamie. Jamie is a good example of the terrible conditions and stress the crabs go through. Despite the attempts I made at giving Jamie everything they could need or want to get better, they were either too sick, too stressed or both to be able to make it. They're the only one I've lost in the past year, and it was due to previous lack of care. If cared for properly, hermit crabs can live in captivity for 40+ years.

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floreal79 · 3 years

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1851 to 2021: “Plus ça change..”

“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle” wrote Marx and Engels in 1848 (in “The Communist Manifesto”). This sentence provides the essence of what has become known as historical materialism, a theoretical framework that can still today be considered the most scientifically sound method yet described of analysing historical processes. Marx employed this method in his writings about the events in France at around the time of publication of the Manifesto, and these works are still widely regarded as having laid bare the mechanisms of the social forces at work.

But over the nearly 200 years that have elapsed since that time, society has not evolved at all in the way that Marx, with his understanding of historical materialism, predicted. In retrospect, it could be argued that where Marx was wrong was not in his underlying theory, but in his calculation of the power of the forces that he described, the interaction of which has thus taken a very different course from the one he foresaw.

The American economist Michael Hudson has described how, from the latter part of the last century to the present time, the economies of the major capitalist countries have become “financialised”. He describes a “FIRE Sector” (“FIRE” is an acronym for Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) whose interests have come to dominate all other economic activity, with devastating economic consequences for much of the populace. Hudson frequently alludes to the “One Percent” to whom the remaining 99% are economically subjugated. This group (also known as the “rentier” class) has its historical antecedents in the “finance aristocracy” described in Marx’s writings.

In mid-nineteenth century France, prior to 1848, industrial capitalism was still in its infancy, and the political power of its leaders was harshly curtailed by the reactionary grouping centred around the Orleanist king, Louis-Philippe. This group, according to Marx, was made up of “bankers, stock exchange kings, owners of coal-mines, ironworks and forests, landed proprietors”, and he used the generic term “finance aristocracy”. The overthrow of Louis-Philippe in February 1848 was by a popular revolt, when the working class of Paris came onto the streets to demand reforms of a “democratic” nature, but which promoted the aims of the “real industrial bourgeoisie” (Marx’s term). As the working class continued its demands for democracy, however, the two arms of the bourgeoisie (“finance aristocracy” and “real industrial bourgeoisie”) combined to suppress them, in the bloody event of July of that year. The events that unrolled over the period from then until Louis Bonaparte’s coup in 1851 were analysed in detail by Marx, and described in terms of a struggle between the “finance aristocracy” and the “real industrial bourgeoisie”. Marx held the view that the industrial bourgeoisie were bound to gain and retain the upper hand, and that the struggles that would determine the course of subsequent history would be between the industrial bourgeoisie and the working class.

As industrial capitalism spread across the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Marx’s expectations were correct, in that the main social conflicts were indeed between capital and labour. But expansion of capital regularly required recourse to the funds of the finance sector, which thus continued to exert power, and the tension between this group and the industrialists has not disappeared, rather contrary to Marx’s expectations (see M Hudson).

The essence is that while manufacturing capitalism aims to increase the total of surplus value, financial capitalism aims to squeeze as much monetary profit as it can from current surplus value, and in doing so restricts the processes that enlarge the totality. While the manufacturing bourgeois will accept some diminution in his share of wealth created if the result is an increase in the total created (just as two-fifths of a large sum can be greater than three-fifths of a small one), the banker/rentier/financial bourgeois just wants the largest immediate payment out of any given enterprise, with no regard for future wealth creation, as “investments” are moved around the stock market. (A semi-mathematical representation of this conflict is attached as an Appendix).

The conflict between these short-term and long-term strategies, embodying the competing interests of manufacturing versus financial capital, can be seen as important in the political developments over the one and three quarter centuries since Marx’s writings on mid-nineteenth century France, and especially so since the rise to dominance, in the last quarter of the twentieth century, of what is called “neoliberalism”. It can be seen as a continuation of the conflict between industry and finance in nineteenth century France that Marx wrote so eloquently about, but which he expected to diminish in importance as the struggle between capital and labour came to dominate politics.

Marx anticipated that the demands of the finance aristocracy would become subservient to those of the industrial bourgeoisie, and that the struggles of the future would be two-sided contests between capital and labour. He expected the working class eventually to win in this two-sided struggle, and to bring the forces of production under public control and ownership. That history has not followed the path Marx anticipated can be related to his miscalculation of the class forces at play.

During the late nineteenth century and for approximately the first three-quarters of the twentieth (up to about 1980), manufacturing capitalism in the West underwent fairly steady expansion (albeit in a the classical cyclical way described by Marx, but at the start of each cycle the capitalist economy was almost always larger than at the start of the preceding one). During this period, organised labour could usually reach an accommodation with the bourgeoisie as increasingly productive industry created wealth that could be used in part to improve workers’ conditions (both by paying better wages and by social reform, as in welfare and health). The term “Fordism” is sometimes used for this (purist economists might differ on this use of the term), and this model was the one that achieved the “Golden Age of Capitalism” during the third quarter of the twentieth century. During this period, as Marx had anticipated, financial capital took a secondary role to the successful industrialists. However, Marx had failed to fully foresee the way in which the unionised working class would be able to claw back some share of surplus value.

An analogy for the relationship between manufacturing capital (“Marx’s “real industrial bourgeoisie”) and labour that held sway over that time can be found in the natural phenomenon of symbiosis between two different species of creature, for example a sea anemone perched on the shell of a hermit crab: the two creatures compete for the same source of food, but by working together (moving around on the crab’s legs, catching prey with the anemone’s tentacles), the supply of food is enhanced, and both get a better share than either would achieve alone. Of course, the analogy cannot be taken too far: the class struggle between the proletariat and the industrial bourgeoisie remained intense during these years, and the finance sector took a back seat, but were always aligned with the more those sections of manufacturing that were most aggressive in opposing the claims of the working class. Newspaper proprietors such as Murdoch gave rallying points to their views.

Yet, while it was constantly in struggle with the industrial bourgeoisie, the working class of the “West” almost never staged a serious threat to its control of the state: as long as it could continue to improve its material conditions within the capitalist system, it could be placated. By using part of ‘surplus value” to improve living standards and to support healthcare and welfare, the bourgeoisie could do this, and advancing technology meant that greater wealth could be created. In this way, Keynes thought he could foresee a time - in the not-too-distant future - when the fifteen-hour week would become normal.

Keynes also recognised that, as well as funding welfare, the industrial capitalist state needed to steer a long-term strategy for capitalist accumulation with such areas of expenditure as education and research (including universities and research establishments). In this, Keynes’ thinking represented of the long-term interests of the industrial bourgeoisie.

On the other hand, the finance sector, always eager to achieve immediate maximum profit, always opposed increased workers’ pay, expenditure on health and welfare, indeed any expenditure that reduced the amount of profit that could be reaped. Nearly all government expenditure is seen by them as wasteful and “big government” is one of their most most notable bêtes noires. A consequence of this is that almost all infrastructure spending is curtailed, a glaring example being railways: development of high-speed rail in those countries, the US and UK, where the neoliberal values of the finance capitalists are most firmly entrenched, lag far behind that in most other advanced industrial economies.

The essence of the conflict between “industrial” and “finance” capitalists lies in the need of the former to increase the total wealth produced by society whereas the latter needs to maximise the share it takes of existing wealth. In this conflict, the industrialists can ally themselves with the working class, for reasons just outlined; a strong working class is not only a product of capitalism but, in certain conditions, a powerful support to one section of the capitalist class. But when the working class becomes less powerful, the financial capitalists increase their power, a process that can be seen to have been taking place since about 1980, to varying degrees, across the capitalist world (i.e. almost the whole world outside China).

Marx had obviously seen the “finance aristocracy” as a distinct class (in the strict historical materialist sense of the word) in the nineteenth century, one that he saw as a continuance of feudal power (based originally on land rent). His expectation was that this class would become subordinate to the industrial capitalists, to the point of almost ceasing to have independent existence, and that from then on, the dominant class conflict would be between capitalist and worker. But nearly 200 years later, this class (as the “FIRE Sector”) is stronger than ever, and the relationship between it and the industrial bourgeoisie again dominates the political scene, a scene in which the proletariat, demoralised and with its organisational powers having been all but eradicated, can exert only minimal influence.

Thus the dynamic of class struggle in the world of the twentieth century has a distinct resemblance to that of France in the mid-nineteenth century, one in which there are three, not two, mutually antagonistic classes with the industrial bourgeoisie occupying some middle ground between the workers and the “rentiers”. They have exploited this hitherto by adjusting their stance to accommodate the stronger of the others, but by 2021 it is the “rentier” class who have the upper hand and are threatening to reduce both the working class and the industrial bourgeoisie to impotence. What they fail to see is that their short-term emphasis on financial profit threatens the long-term creation of “real” (manufactured) value.

Appendix: “Manufacturing” vs “Financial” Capitalist Accumulation

Let’s consider a “bourgeois” about to embark upon a new capitalist venture. It starts on “Day 0”, and we take a hypothetical first “cycle” up to an arbitrary “Day n”, after which the further cycles (slightly-different, as will be outlined) take place (athough in reality the process is more continuous than cyclical)

On “Day 0”: Bourgeois invests some capital, to value “C” for capitalist production up to “Day n” (the origins of this capital to be discussed later)

Days 0 to n

(first cycle): “C” is expended on:-

Fixed assets (machinery, etc): “F”

Recurrent expenses (fuel, rent, etc) to "Day n”: “Rn”

Wages of employees to "Day n”: “Wn”

Then: C = F + Rn + Wn

By “Day n”: - The labour of the employees has created commodity of value “Vn”

- Fixed assets have depreciated by “∂Fn”

- In a successful enterprise, Vn>>Wn, and Vn = Wn + Sn

where “S” corresponds to Marx’s “Surplus Value”, “Sn” being its quantity at day n

- The bourgeois’ assets now have a value of (F-∂Fn) + Vn

- Also, if Sn > (Rn + ∂Fn), then Vn - (Wn + Rn + ∂Fn) is “profit” (Pn), so that for the period from Day 0 to Day n:

Pn = Vn - (Wn + Rn + ∂Fn) - Equation #1

To put this in words, the profit is the value of the goods produced less the combined total of wages, recurrent expenses and depreciation of assets.

The cycle can then repeat with further increments of profit. The above equation for Day 0 to Day n can be rewritten in a general form as:

P = V - (W + R + ∂F) - Equation #2

As profit accrues, it can be expended in various ways:

#1) Increasing “capacity” by investing in further fixed assets (with corresponding increases in the wage bill etc , but increased output and profit eventually). Renewal of old equipment can be included in this. If a major project is undertaken, additional capital may need to be brought in from outside. (The term “∂C” will be used for this, below).

#2) Investment in R&D (“D”)

#3) The bourgeois may hand some of the profit to the workers in increased wages. Organised, unionised labour makes this more likely, although capitalists such as Henry Ford, while a bitter enemy of trade unions, saw the wisdom of increasing wages. Such a “sharing” of profit was a feature of the “Golden Age of Capitalism” - the third quarter of the twentieth century - during which time working people saw real improvements in their material conditions, BUT it essentially came to an end in about 1980. (“∂W” will be used for increased wage rates).

#4) Tax - civilised society requires infrastructure and welfare (some overlap between this and #3) (“T”)

#5) Some capital may be used for speculative investment in further ventures (as this is a from of money lending, the term “U” as in “usury” is used).

#6) The original capital to create the business, plus any further tranches, as in #1 above, may have been raised from the rentier class in which case it needs to be repaid (“X”).

ISo, the total profit, “P” can be divided between these six possible options as the bourgeois

decides (under pressure from other directions, of course: see below) and another equation for “P”

describes this:

P = ∂C + D + ∂W + T + U + X - Equation #3

(It might be noticed that no terms in the equation is used to cover such things as shareholders dividends, bonuses to senior managers, etc, but as these are generally dependent upon the value of “U” achieved, they can be considered as a potion of that, and not covered separately).

The manufacturing bourgeois’ wishes to continue “capital accumulation” will often at some point mean using more than just the already-accumulated “∂C”” and “D”, and may necessitate obtaining outside funding for his investments, which will often entail conversion to a “joint stock company”, such as through a sale of shares in an “initial public offering” (IPO). But now our manufacturing bourgeois allows an important new voice to enter the discussion about how the distribution of “P” is made between its carious components.

From then on, usually posing their demands as “in the interests of the share-holders”, the “finance aristocracy” begins to exert its influence, and the word “investment” now undergoes a subtle change of meaning. Beforehand, “investment’ was what was understood as falling within #1 above: spending on research, new equipment, etc; under the “finance aristocracy”, most available money is “invested” in further speculative ventures - the quickest way to maximise profit. For the finance aristocracy, its “investments” must turn the biggest profit most rapidly.

So there are now three groups competing for their share of the profits of capitalist industry:

#1) The workers: they have to be paid a certain sum (“W”) to survive and continue to generate surplus value (“S”). Beyond this, they also want to improve their material conditions by receiving a share of “P”; they also tend to favour social measures that improve their lives , favouring the use of part of “P” (tax, “T” in the equations) by society the form of taxation to improve communal functions - health, education, social security, infrastructure etc.

#2) The manufacturing bourgeoisie: this group has an interest in long-term capital accumulation, so appreciates the need to accommodate some of the workers’ demands above, and also the need for long-term investment in modernisation; in the past this has included paying tax to support government-run research institutes (universities and other), as well as for expenditure on such infrastructure as transport and telecommunication (and so on..).

#3). The finance aristocracy, in the present day in their new guise as “FIRE”: for these people, “S” needs to be used to make further profit by speculative investment. They have no interest in long-term development of industry through R&D, and certainly no interest in maintaining living standards for the workers. For government to take part of “S” as tax and use it for such things as healthcare, education, welfare, infrastructure (etc) is abhorred. “Down with Big Government” is one of their mantras.

To return to the earlier equations, we have:

P = V - (W + R + ∂F) - Equation #2

and

P = ∂C + D + ∂W + T + U + X - Equation #3

Removing “P”, as the common factor, can combine these two equations to give:

∂C + D + ∂W + T + U + X = V - (W + R + ∂F)

And rearranging this:

U = V - (W + R + ∂F + ∂C + D + ∂W + T + X) - Equation #4

For the financial sector, maximising “U” as quickly as possible is the main aim, in order to have capital to “invest” in further speculative ventures (and also to fund their exorbitant lifestyles). Long-term growth of manufacturing is of no interest to them, whereas the manufacturing bourgeoisie, aiming to accumulate capital, will not necessarily wish to maximise “U” at the expense of long term investment in industry (another illustration of how “investment” means different things to the financial and manufacturing bourgeoisies).

So, from Equation #4, the finance sector aim to maximise “U” by minimising the other items on the right side of the equation, while the manufacturer sees a long-term gain for his particular capitalist venture by “investing” in expansion, in R&D, and in some measures to promote the material conditions of the workers.

The essence is that while manufacturing capitalism aims to increase the total of surplus value in the long term, financial capitalism aims to squeeze as much monetary profit as it can from current surplus value, and in doing so damages the mechanisms that enlarge the totality. While the manufacturing bourgeois will accept some diminution in his share of wealth created if the result is an increase in the total created (just as two-fifths of a large sum can be greater than three-fifths of a small one), the banker/rentier/financial bourgeois wants the largest immediate share out of any given enterprise, with no regard for future wealth creation, as “investments” are moved around the stock market.

The conflict between these short-term and long-term strategies, embodying the competing interests of manufacturing versus financial capital, can be seen as crucial to the political developments over the one and three quarter centuries since Marx’s writings on mid-nineteenth century France. The conflict between industry and finance, that Marx wrote so eloquently about, has, contrary to Marx’s expectations, remained a major feature of the ongoing struggle between classes.

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Hello! I am very new to your blog but I’m really enjoying it so far! I’m interested in seeing how the baby hermit crabs grow up because I’ve never seen them before the crab stage. I was wondering if you have a care guide for keeping/raising hermit crabs or if you have a recommendation of a care guide. I hope in the future to also own hermit crabs and knowing more about them will make me feel better about keeping them! Thank you!

Welcome, I'm glad to have you here! 💜

YAY for doing research beforehand, that's great! If you search on my blog for "hermit crab care", I should have some posts under that about food, shells, recommended stores, and likely some answers that contain some basic care info!

Even better, check out Land Hermit Crab Owner Society on Facebook. They also have a website, or if you like videos, check out Crab Central Station on YouTube. They follow the care guidelines from LHCOS, and are the ones who sent me the zoea I'm raising!

Also for when you do start planning to get some crabs, consider checking LHCOS's adoption program first, or look at getting some captive bred babies (adoption program or Josh's Frogs). Hermit crabs sold in pet stores and beach shops have been horribly abused during capture and transfer, and are rarely kept well at the stores. We're working really hard to encourage people towards ethical alternatives instead of supporting that!

I hope that helps you get started! :)

#hermit crab care #land hermit crabs #asks #fbw rambles #bluespeon

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2024 LHCOS Hermit Crab Calendar

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2024 Hermit Crab Calendar

🐚✨ Introducing the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society 2024 Hermit Crab Calendar! 📅🦀 Get ready to shell-ebrate the beauty of these amazing creatures with our collection of winning photos from our monthly contests! 🌟 Adorable hermit crab moments each month brings you closer to these fascinating little friends. But it’s not just a calendar; it’s a chance to support a cause you love! 🌊🌍 Every purchase…

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🦀 Get ready to shell-abrate! 🌟 The Land Hermit Crab Owners Society is thrilled to announce the release of our 2024 Hermit Crab Calendar! 📅🦐

📸 Featuring the stunning winning photos from our monthly contest, this calendar is a treasure trove of crab-tastic moments captured by our incredible community! From quirky antics to adorable poses, each month showcases the unique charm of these delightful creatures. But that’s not all! 🌟 Your purchase isn’t just about crab joy—it’s a chance to support a great cause! 🌊🐚 Calendar sales are a…

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🦀✨ Good Friends in a Pinch: Giving Tuesday with LHCOS ✨🦀

Join us this Giving Tuesday as we stand up for our beloved land hermit crabs and their natural habitats! At The Land Hermit Crab Owners Society (LHCOS), our core values drive our mission: 🌿 Conservation & Community: We’re dedicated to reducing plastics, preserving natural habitats, and establishing crucial captive breeding programs. Together, we strive for a community that champions quality…

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LHCOS supports Illinois legislation to ban painted hermit crab shells

news release FOR RELEASE AT 7:00 P.M. MARCH 1, 2023 LHCOS supports Illinois legislation to ban painted hermit crab shells Painted shells are inhumane, unnecessary and destroy needed natural resource

news release FOR RELEASE AT 7:00 P.M. MARCH 1, 2023 LHCOS supports Illinois legislation to ban painted hermit crab shells Painted shells are inhumane, unnecessary and destroy needed natural resource WAYNE CITY, ILL., MARCH 1, 2023 — The Land Hermit Crab Owner’s Society supports Illinois House Bill HB3257 sponsored by Illinois House of Representative Robert Rita. Painted shells for hermit…