1 of 2 Money, the root of all evil? Francisco d'Anconia

[Mrflynn45]

The root of all evil isnt money but want what you will do to get it.

[510shredder]

@Mrflynn45 no it's not.

so you're saying putting in hard work is the root of all evil? i know that's not what you meant, but it's what your statement implies.

[jonnyy40]

Is it Jeremy irons reading this? Very easy listening.

[The2012beliver]

stil monney is beeing use to evil purpouse like warr and were dus the monney come from ?

wel it comes from the ppl who pay tax and that is in control of the goverment so in they end the goverment abuses there power to drain the ppl from there monney so they can wage warr

[510shredder]

@The2012beliver You clearly either didn't listen to/read the speech or completely missed the point it was making. I guess that shouldn't come as a shock from someone who's a '2012beliver'. Next time you want to denigrate something, at least know what it is you're denigrating before you project your foolishness out for all the world to see.

[The2012beliver]

@510shredder hou litle you know

[510shredder]

@The2012beliver "hou litle you know"

Well wasn't that fuckin enlightening? Thanks for that, it was spoken like a true genius.

[needmorebrain]

Money is a leash. It is an imaginary hand cuff for the free. It binds you and makes you live to work for it. By configurating all jumpers the powerful can make you work harder. Jumpers are general goods like water, power, fuel, health, etc. It had some meaning when it first was invented. But then clever people, greedy men, came to the thought, that in certain circles money is no longer of value. They founded a global mafia to suppress and control the masses. Forget this garbage speech. Lies!

[gergar121]

@needmorebrain Thank someone agrees with me money is the sole reason besides love or history that makes a man do anything!!!!!! We use to barter food but greedy men came and decide to control people with it.

[510shredder]

@needmorebrain I guess you missed the "Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold" part. Congrats on missing the point of the speech. NO S the world now exists with a fiat currency, THANKS FOR THE REVELATORY NEWS FLASH!!!!!!

[bramclark]

So...anyone have a PA System located near Wall Street? I'd love the moochers and looters protesting to hear this. They wouldn't understand it, but it would be a great moment.

[PinkFloydJr1]

@mrflynn45 You lose that bet. It was the writer Ayn Rand.

[Mrflynn45]

Who ever wrote this is a Banker i would bet money on that.

[510shredder]

@Mrflynn45 Ok, how much?

[nihilismful]

This is my individual view upon money:

"Money is the ultimate human construct of bondage. It is both the stick and the carrot, and can make men into masters and slaves. and like prisoners who only see the world as their chains, we cannot live without it."

-Nihilismful

[510shredder]

@nihilismful and nihilism is for anticonceptuals and Kantians. LOL.

[stellarshore]

moneys no the problem, greed is the problem, excess wealth while others die.

[lennaylennay2]

I think the main problem is this axiom may be no longer relevent in today's society and of that of the future. "Money rests on the axiiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort" This may be true in some intances as he may own and pay for the technolgy that does his work for him but what happens when a machine may be able to think for him.

JG: ".... Thinking is not a technical process ..."

Me.: is it suppernatual then?

[christerryatl]

Che Guevara's reign of murdering teenagers for their political beliefs is over.

[sohc287]

Source? 

[510shredder]

@sohc287 Atlas Shrugged....can you not read or somethin? lol

[mustang607]

This is one of the best speeches I've ever heard.

[ingramw1202]

Let us say that I recognize no man's right to a single moment of my time or my life or my ability.

[DystopianUtopia]

Where can I get a high res version of the pic in the video?

[pukedragon]

if my choice is to either work for money so that i may freely purchase what i need and/or what i desire, or to work in exchange for what government decides i need, i choose the first option, the second option can go to hell.

[Rajhoul]

I would make a comment but then considering the fluctuations between useless approval and baseless disdain, I'm not even going to bother.

[selti1]

Just BRILLIANT!

What logic! How water tight! It is like the concept "MONEY" presented as a mathmatical formula:

Money is GOOD!

[buzzclick500]

The devil knows who God is, as James Taggart and Wesley Mouch know who Henry Rearden, Dagny Taggart and Francisco D"Anconia are, fictitious characters though they may be, and well represented by the book.

[Guevaristas]

God has nothing to do with this vid, God is a metaphysical lie, a nothingness.

You inegalitarians desire money as you desire inequality between people. Do you think you are inherently superior to others? Is this your idea of freedom, you use and abuse others as a means to further your own ends. You are a cancer.

[AmeriKidz]

@Guevaristas And you are a gullible fool my friend. Please take note of your individuality and realize that it is what is most important in your life as it is to everyone else. I have. No one desires inequalities among us, in your case we simply recognize it.

[Guevaristas]

@AmeriKidz

"Kidz" yes with the mentality of a 5 year old kid. You make a good little parasite, now like a good cappy you can find a fat rat to suck the blood out of

[AmeriKidz]

@Guevaristas Whoa.... touchy touchy I see. You want me to suck the blood out of a rat???? I am a capitalist parasite? I though we were comrades?

[joesmoe71]

@AmeriKidz You don't need the permission or approval of people like Guevaristas for your views, don't waste you time arguing when someone has no intention of listening, it's pointless. They just get more and more hateful and shrill the more they realize they have no real power over you that you don't give them, which is one thing Rand points out in her books, just stand back and be amused.

[510shredder]

@AmeriKidz Of course, us folks who actually CHOOSE to exercise our brains' capacity for reason know that it's the Statists (pick your flavor, comrade) and Kantians who are the parasites of the world.

[basscataz]

@AmeriKidz - gee, i wonder what "geuvaristas" really thinks. lol, yes, its not hard to see who is for the "the exchange of ideas".. Che, and ALL the other "revolutionaries" are a shame. . i think maybe "guevaristas" wants to give us all some "social justcie", im sure that she "i assume she", will shed a tear of joy when the masses are equally poor, hungry, filthy, and desperate to worship some "soros/che/lenin/obama" type. yup, and even a little lip quiver as well. lol

[basscataz]

@AmeriKidz - gee, i wonder what "geuvaristas" really thinks. lol, yes, its not hard to see who is for the "the exchange of ideas".. Che, and ALL the other "revolutionaries" are a shame. . i think maybe "guevaristas" wants to give us all some "social justcie", im sure that she "i assume she", will shed a tear of joy when the masses are equally poor, hungry, filthy, and desperate to worship some "soros/che/lenin/obama" type. yup, and even a little lip quiver as well. lol

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : Everyone believes in God. It's rationally unavoidable. Some people like Him, and some people don't--that's what makes it interesting.

[JDPatriot]

@Guevaristas

Che Guevara is dead bro, move on.

[chichoelnegro1234]

@Guevaristas do you really believe that all men are equal? all men are created equal but from that point on we each make of ourselves what we each choose, according to our individual talents and drives. The best possible scenario is to have a government of laws such as ours was once (USA), to allow an equal playing field where people can grow, create, succeed or fail in accordance to talent, skill, work ethic or even luck.

[510shredder]

@Guevaristas Perhaps if you didn't speak in straw men, you wouldn't look like such an ignorant tard.

[AvidLearner11]

By the way, AmeriKidz, don't feel a need to defend Atlas Shrugged from every... person with access to the internet who only has the time to listen to like half the video and start judging something they've not a clue of. Because this book is better than that, and your wasting your precious time on something completely unworthy. And I'm glad we've a mutual respect for it.

Thanks for posting this! It made me smile!

[AmeriKidz]

@AvidLearner11 I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope may more are swayed by it. You are very right to point out that the book alone stands on it's own merit. Isn't it goofy to see all of these quasi communists be so offended by it? They're lucky they never heard a Jim Jones sermon in his heyday! It's all in good fun I suppose ;-)

[510shredder]

@AmeriKidz well there is the twin oaks commune in virginia based in bf skinners book beyond freedom and dignity, which might as well be considered a 'scientific' declaration of war again man's mind and man's senses. twin oaks is so perfect, they can only sustain 100 people there, and people flee there every year.

[TumisHumis]

@510shredder Wasn't Twin Oaks that place where they say they're 100% communist, but their main source of income is exporting goods to neighboring (Capitalist) consumers?

[510shredder]

@TumisHumis yea lol and it still exists, look it up. like I said, despite their 100 person limit, people flee the 'utopia' every year.

[tookonehourtogetthis]

@AvidLearner11 heh by writing that comment, you made the same misstake as Amerkidz and now, so did I.

[AvidLearner11]

At first I was worried by its quality..but you know, it's a overall win nonetheless. :D

[conradjulian]

Francisco d'Anconia is a sexual loser. He got lucky with a girlfriend in his youth, then had to spent the rest of his life in "secondary virginity" like a fundamentalist christian teenager. Yet he was so ashamed of the fact that he pretended that he still had game.

[AmeriKidz]

@conradjulian "Sexual loser"? Interesting take... I think his character is a bit deeper than that tho. Perhaps we only see what we feel we can relate the most to? Do you have any other deep insights to the Atlas Shrugged story line?

[Guevaristas]

Evil is the root of all money

[elsquibbs]

@Guevaristas

Spoken like a true moocher.

[Guevaristas]

@elsquibbs wish could be there to see your death, and mock your last breath, you are hypocrite waste of space

[elsquibbs]

@Guevaristas

I'm sure you'd have the time to stop by. Unemployment usually has flexible hours. It's good to see NZ tax money being spent so wisely.

[AvidLearner11]

@elsquibbs "Unemployment usually has flexible hours." This is a win. ^.^

[Pazrayna]

Central Banking is the root of all evil.

[kylefng]

I'm finally reading atlas shrugged at age 40 and I have to say it is by far the best book I've ever read. This portion of the book was breath taking and hit the nail on the head. I can see why all the commie liberal instructors denounce this book and steer away. Thank you for posting this video so this portion can be relived.

[buzzclick500]

Fidel Castro got rid of Che` Guevara because Fidel Castro has a MIND. When it became clear to President Castro that Che`did not have a mind, he had no choice but to ship Che` somewhere else, an action virtually identical to God throwing Satan out of heaven. It was a purely executive decision, made for the good of Cuba.

[Guevaristas]

@buzzclick500 Fidel never got rid of Che, he left of his own accord. Have you not read Che's Farewell Letter of 1965? lol. you need to catch up with the rest of the planet

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : The "planet", as you so blithely put, has a name: Earth.

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : I believe that Che honestly THOUGHT he was leaving of his own accord, or left in an impassioned moment of dis-satisfaction and was too proud to admit it later. He was not in charge of the situation, and I believe that may have bothered him. It's very easy for me to imagine the Faithful Guardian of the Castle(Fidel Castro)as an allegorical representation of God, and Che as the same thematic symbol as the devil. When push came to shove, Che had to go.

[buzzclick500]

Something good and HUGE is about to happen.

[buzzclick500]

Fidel Castro's name, translated into our language, is "Faithful Guardian of the Castle." No wonder our government hates him. Our present government can't guard an outhouse.

[buzzclick500]

Positive-minded people avoid negative people; negative people have an active, constant dislike of positive-minded people. Negative people possess no mind, in the strict sense of the word. They are the "people" Ayn Rand describes as the "anti-mind".

[Guevaristas]

never could understand Ayn rand lol

[buzzclick500]

In a free Capitalist environment, a person has a good idea, and the wealth follows immediately, because there is no fear or external regulation of the process. In a communist environment the journey from idea to production to success is long and torturous--totally unnecessary and loaded with bureaucratic corruption, culminating in much "social prestige" and little financial reward.

[Guevaristas]

@buzzclick500 there is no truely "free" capitalist system. Capitalism in new zealand is regulated. The idea of a completely "free market" is ,arguably, a substantive myth.

And another thing, capitalism requires collective cooperation in order to function,. The entire system would collapse if it were not for billions of people (wage slaves) compromising and cooperating to some extent and degree.

This is why socialism and communism will always exist-they are eternal verities.

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : There is no truly "free" system. Capitalism requires AGREEABLE collective co-operation, whereas communism and socialism require deception, manipulation and treachery to function. Hugh Hefner, for example, provides a product that has a strong market, and from the beginning, he let our government know that they needed to leave his interests alone and concern themselves with doing their assigned jobs. Henry Rearden in real life.

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : Socialism and communism WILL always exist, as will Capitalism. Without opposing pressure(or awareness of it)there can be no forward movement. That's why God didn't kill the devil a long time ago.

[buzzclick500]

The United States of America is founded on Democratic-Republican values--an even balance between the two concepts. Someone has expended much effort to distort that image grievously. The proper balance is in the process of being re-established. Patience is a virtue; it's the emotional equivalent of gold.

[buzzclick500]

A Capitalist pays his or her workers based on various factors, not dictated by state regulations or quotas.

[Guevaristas]

capitalism honest lol man you are so delluded

Firstly, it's un-democratic as it champions private ownership of ownership by the workers-the later being the primary producers on society.

Secondly, capitalists make profit by utilizing the wage system as a means to steal from workers. That profit, is, in actuality, produced by the workers and ought to belong to them. The reason is that the capitalist is no better than a modern day pirate, a parasitic leech, a repressive exploiter

[Guevaristas]

'Firstly, it's un-democratic as it champions private ownership [over] ownership by the workers-the later being the primary producers on society.'

:D

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : If it wasn't for the brain, the body(workers)wouldn't have much to do.

[Guevaristas]

thw workers have a brain and are not lazy, on the other the fat capitalists are, and make a fat pig profit doing very little

The workers are the primary producers of wealth in society

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : What is your specific "solution" to the situation?

[Guevaristas]

realistically, most workers are not revolutionaries, they are consumerists. Most in new zealand, Austrailia, etc could not give a dam about exploitation of workers, they have little or no understanding whatsoever.

They are unaware of their class position as exploited, they are comfortable, properous.

But as all this continues others, millions are suffering.

Is educating the workers the answer?

Should we look to Mexico, latin america, instead of western nations?

It's complex

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : What is your solution to the situation? Whatever "they" are involved in is not my field of interest. What is YOUR specific solution to the situation?

[Guevaristas]

what do you mean by "the situation"? captalism, poverty, inequality, inegalitarianism? Planned economy vs. market-driven commodity economy?

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : What is YOUR specific solution to the situation that bothers YOU personally?

[Guevaristas]

there is a vid in my favs called

"How and why Communism works?"

musch of the philosophy, at least an overview of it, can be found there

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : The communist "philosophy" is "kill and steal." I'm familiar with the communist manifesto--15 pages of murder. I've also read some Marx and Engels; I was equally unimpressed.

[Guevaristas]

@buzzclick500 utter crap. you obviously never understood it, can you cite the passages about killing and stealing and murder?

cite them

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : What is YOUR solution to the situation that bothers YOU personally?

[sonrouge]

@Guevaristas Alright, I cite the entire history of socialism and communism. All communist and socialist countries came about via bloodshed.

[Guevaristas]

@sonrouge crap, firstly there has never been a "Communist " system.

Bloodshed?? lol Name a capitalist nation that did not come from bloodshed? Have you studied the british colonization of new zealand for example? See what the Maori here went through. You must be completely blind to the facts and the history to make such an ignorant generalization

[sonrouge]

@Guevaristas USSR, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba sure as hell weren't capitalist. Furthermore, America's birth was accomplished without bloodshed (referring to after she gained her independence from Britain, which would have been bloodless had the British not tried to use force to put down opposition to their rule).

[sonrouge]

@Guevaristas Also, I don't give a flip about Britain. Britain wasn't the first country to base their government on the ideal of man as an end in and of himself. In fact, Britain was the country that tried to prevent that from happening.

[sonrouge]

@Guevaristas Finally, if you want a clear distinction between statism and capitalism, look at North and South Korea (the latter isn't totally capitalist, but that is the dominant ideal)

[elsquibbs]

@Guevaristas

Communism's abject failure is not evidence of its viability. You're also confusing Capitalism with Imperialism/Jingoism. Those terms are completely different. The irony of a guy named "Guevaristas" bashing anyone for bloodshed is off the charts.

[Guevaristas]

@elsquibbs you are seriously delluded, and possibly depraved. It's unfortunate that someone like you could not be subjected to a Revolutionary trial, hmm , there's an idea

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : Why do you think Fidel Castro got rid of Che` Guevara?

[Guevaristas]

he never got rid of Che, Che asked Fidel for one thing-to leave Cuba and continue fighting. Che went off on his own accord

see Oliver Stone's doco "Comandante" and the interviews with Fidel

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : Yes, I'm sure that may be what Che` thought--I notice he hasn't returned to Cuba..........

Oliver Stone is a communist propagandist. "JFK" was his biggest farce.

[Guevaristas]

whn you click a negative on my comments, eventually they are hidden, id this yourt democracy??? Restricting free speech??

Socialism turned Russia from a backward peasant nation in a world superpower.

You mark comments with a negative then you anti-democratists are not worth arguing with

[AmeriKidz]

Common theme among your ilk is to have no tolerance for whom that disagree with you. Thanks for illustrating that for us. No restrictions on my part and, claiming that youtube restricts free speech is foolhardy at best. Russia is a bad example... remember Gorbachev? I hope one day you will realize that Communism is a ponzi scheme.

[Guevaristas]

Amerkidz? yes you are but a kid?

Take a looky at Guantanamo Bay, you cannot speak of freedom, fair trials, or anything. Also google the slaughter at Mi Lai (Vietnam) and Wounded Knee, the later taking place on your (?, NO) turf

[Guevaristas]

you ain't no Chomsky lol

[justintempler]

@Guevaristas Haha a superpower where people had to stand in line for toilet paper.

[Guevaristas]

They stood in line not because of shortages, but because of a break down in the chain of command. (Command Economy)

In a planned ecomony a direction (eg. distribute 200,000 pairs of shoes) has to actually get to the distribution warehouse.

When it fails to, there are distribution issues, people end up standing in line.

but you stick with your sick repressive market based economy you little exploiter of humans

[justintempler]

@Guevaristas " but because of a break down in the chain of command...

When it fails to, there are distribution issues,"

You are full of excuses aren't you?

[Guevaristas]

not excuses, but instead a reality you fail to see.

Have you invented any excuses for the bail outs yet? Capitalist greed? You are a defender of exploitation

this vid has so many bland and banal generalizations it's a joke

[justintempler]

@Guevaristas The reality is in your system their is no incencentive for the distribution system to work. That's why your system fails and even the biggest Communist country in the world, China is adopting capitalism.

Bail outs are not capitalism. In a capitalistic system those companies should be left to die.

Enjoy your trolling. I'm done with you.

[Guevaristas]

your capitalist system is hypocrital. Those companies should be left to die? But they were not were left to die, instead, your capitalist governments used tax-payers money to bail them out of the shit.

You sick capitalist economic system is an epic failure, face it.

New Zealand news-

another finance company just went under: Strategic Finance owe $325 mil. to 13,000 investors. lol

[AmeriKidz]

Your right. I'm moving to Venezuela where I can finally be free! You with me?

[Guevaristas]

lol do you think Venezuela is a socialist state?

im going to order a taxi and have you dropped off in the Bronx at 1am in the morning, are you ready to go?

[AmeriKidz]

No problem. I know a few people over there and occasionally work in and around that area. Now, if you'd said Detroit.... OH NO!!!! Even the crackheads and Bums can't afford to live there anymore;-)

[Guevaristas]

oh so you think we are smallville over here in new zealand? And you live in the big bad evil capitalist empire?

So your famous U$A is no utopia after all lol

put "Detroit Ghetto" into YT

[AmeriKidz]

Thanks for pointing that out. btw, Detroit could be described as the communist capitol of the US. Please, also refer to "the 20th century motor company" as an analogy to the "Detroit Ghetto". I envy you sir for living in NZ. I plan to visit/move there soon. I agree you guys have it better there!

Have you actually read Atlas Shrugged? What portion of the above video do you take issue with most?

[badgerattoadhall]

@Guevaristas detroit and michigan have had self destructive leftwing policies. PS look at my video in my profile

[herbs814]

@Guevaristas

It is socialist government that fails.

Capitalism is always the answer.

Government is the problem.

[Guevaristas]

as you would know, the first, earliest phase of Communism is called "socialism". Under this phase there is inequality, there are laws, there is a government.

However, this is only a transitional phase. Eventually the socialist state "withers away" (Engels term) leading towards a Communist society. A society with no state, no government etc etc

Communists are opposed to governments, yet it's existence is unavoidable at the socialist phase

[herbs814]

@Guevaristas

The mythical utopia of stateless communism never occurs because Socialism is always evil and always leads to injustice. The way to eliminate the state is to promote capitalism (justice) not socialism (injustice).

Engels is either a complete idiot or a diabolical saboteur. His ideas are dangerous. Only a fool would follow them. Only a cruel villain would promote them.

[Guevaristas]

just hold you horse a moment and attempt to remain civilized, even though it must be difficult.

You are sounding like a liberatrian, are you? You value freedom over the collective, over the state? What are your ideological perspectives?

[herbs814]

I was remaining civil. I did not direct any insults toward you personally. I give you the benefit of the doubt that you are ignorant rather than villainous.

Socialism is intolerable because for a collective state to exist, it must intrusively deny the freedom of every individual member. A state founded upon liberty can allow members to form collectives, but a state founded on collectivism cannot allow any liberty. Therefore governments must be founded upon liberty, not given excessive power.

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : President Rosefield started the socialist trend in America; the assassination of President Kennedy jolted our government(not US)into the communist phase--an atmosphere of fear and frustration throughout all levels of society. Our government is realizing it has created something it can no longer hope to control. The media tries hard to disguise the damage with rhetoric and platitudes, but Americans are in fact smarter than we like to appear.

[herbs814]

@Guevaristas

Companies do not "die". Companies that fail to satisfy customers enough to be compensated well fail to meet their obligations. Companies are then liquidated to cover debts. Assets go to more productive uses. Capitalism is the only just system. There is no alternative. Honesty is the best policy. And only capitalism is honest.

[Guevaristas]

you are sounding like Mary Poppins.

Capitalism is a brutal economic system that relies on the repression of miliions-reduced to wage slaves. Haiti and India are both capitalist nations with extreme poverty.

You must be incredibly delluded to make the claim you have made

Honesty? You must be joking: wage slavery is about extracting a surplus value from workers by not paying them the full value of their work. This is how the cappy makes his profit. Profit is theft. Theft is dishonesty

[herbs814]

No. Capitalism is a JUST and HONEST economic system. Poverty, such as in India and Haiti, are caused by socialism -- POVERTY IS CAUSED BY GOVERNMENT. Capitalism is the solution to poverty.

You are incredibly BRAINWASHED and ignorant.

Low wages are caused by insufficient capitalism.

Socialist government is the cause of all poverty.

Profit comes from SATISFYING your customer. Profit is JUST. The capitalist makes his profit honestly. Only the government makes money from dishonesty.

[Guevaristas]

you have no idea at all

The capitalist goes into business, gets into debt etc etc for the primary purpose of making a profit. Do you not realise this fact?

Why do you think the wage system was invented? Workers are paid by the hour, NOT for the work they actually do.

Profit is theft, as it was produced by workers and is stolen from them and called "profit". Profit is whats left over after the cappy has paid production costs and overheads etc

[herbs814]

@Guevaristas

The capitalist gains success by satisfying customers, therefore the capitalist's profit is MORAL. The wage system was invented to enable successful, moral entrepreneurs to expand their successful, moral businesses and to satisfy more customers. Wage earners gained skills and profited from their labor.

Profit by the capitalism is entirely moral.

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : Capitalists do NOT go into debt to start a business--that would be the socialists and communists, who have no intention of paying the "loan" back in the first place. Henry Ford paid his workers the unheard-of-wage of five dollars a DAY in 1914, because HE felt they deserved it, not because any government agency told him to.

[Guevaristas]

Question:

can you name any capitalist who does not make a profit from his/her workers?

On what basis do you justify this profit?

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : Hmm. Good question. I was born in the socialist phase, so my Capitalist role models are mostly from a previous age--John Delorean comes to mind. The government set him up and made it impractical for him to do business in America. John Delorean, yes. Socialists and communists will not tolerate honest or fair people in their presence. Makes sense.

[buzzclick500]

@Guevaristas : You've confused the Capitalist system with the communists, who pay as little as they possibly can to produce shoddy product. Their 'Services" are worthless because they have no concept of serving anyone's interests but their own. Theft is the only profit that communists know. See how simple it is?

[Ihrhase]

@Guevaristas The hypocrisy of the united States is that it is not a capitalist nation, verily there is no such thing....

Sorrily I must be the one to announce this, there are only levels of tyranny in states, there is no freedom in an environment where one is coerced to answer to others just for living...

[Guevaristas]

@Ihrhase you are coerced to answer maybe not "just for living", but for many things in capitalist and socialist societies.

From the beginning of time people have probably used coercion on others. You almost make it sound like a new phenomenon

[Bcapitalist]

@Guevaristas The United states has not been a true capitalist system for many years now. Our government intervenes and destroys, then blames the failure on Capitalism. True Capitalism cannot fail, in a true Capitalist Society no Business would ever be bailed out by the gov't. Get your facts straight Guevaristas before you make foolish comments over the internet.

[Guevaristas]

your comment is a joke. More bland generalizations and assertions that amount to nothing. You are just a captalist roader like the rest.

The US has not been a "true" capitalist system, perhaps, but it's still capitalist system.

'True Capitalism cannot fail...'

death is too good for a moron like you lol

[herbs814]

@Guevaristas

Evil greed comes from government. Gains from capitalism are just.

Government regulation is exploitation.

Capitalism produces and satisfies; government exploits, abuses, and steals.

Capitalism makes; government takes.

Capitalism is honest; government is dishonest.

Capitalism produces; government steals.

Capitalism is moral; government taking is immoral.

[justintempler]

Thank you for the video AmeriKidz.

[Guevaristas]

you crawler

[Guevaristas]

the "root" of all evil? lol

man you are stuck in the 19th century. You sound like some sadist, some twisted philosopher trying to sanitize the issue, objectify it.

Capital is parasitic and grows with exploitation.

You have a utopian perspective, an unrealistic, view.

One day you may be buried with your money, how evil is that?

[AmeriKidz]

@Guevaristas The reality of capitalism is that, nothing is stopping you from being a communist by joining a commune if you choose. In fact - I'd recommend for you creativeideasforyou(dot)com ...or is that not what you really want? Perhaps you already live in a commune and have come to determine that it can only succeed if capitalists like me are gunned down in the street like the failed revolutionaries you hold so dear would have done? Who is stuck in a past time my sad sad friend.. it's not me.

[Guevaristas]

you are now and you will in the future.

The U$A is a changing place. Who would have believed Obama would have ever got in? You have to sustain capitalism, like any system.

The present capitalist crisis has shown the immense cracks in the system's superstructure. How long can this system of subjugation and exploitation continue?

Many capitalist countries suffer in dire poverty, India and Haiti, are but two examples

[AmeriKidz]

@Guevaristas Well, don't paint a better Mona Lisa simply by burning Leonardo's original! Look, no offense but -tell me what country is the best model for your brand of communism?

[RicoLen1]

@Guevaristas Actually what you're talking about is called crony-capitalism, it's where the government passes laws that hinder true capitalism in order for the richest companies to get bigger. That's what the U.S. has right now. The government is to blame for accepting bribes and writing laws that are unethical.

[slapnpopbass]

Since when has Communism EVER worked?

[herbs814]

@slapnpopbass

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." Thomas Sowell

[Guevaristas]

but they are not paid the full amount for their efforts, they are paid a wage open hour. That wage does not correspond to what the worker actually produces.

If it did, the capitalist would not make the profit s/he does

the vid is crap

[RicoLen1]

@Guevaristas the full amount of their efforts as defined by whom? Two consenting adults decide what that "full amount of their effort" is worth. If I decide that my time is worth more than what my potential employer is paying I can refuse the job offer and go elsewhere. Assuming a normal, ungoverned capitalist economy, if I estimate my time to be too valuable I will not find another job willing to pay what I want, if I am accurate, I will.

[meowmix66666]

This is Francisco's 2nd most epic part.

[IIArchonII]

This speech is goddamn amazing.

I insist anyone who remotely agrees to go and check out the Free State Project

[rabiesisnice]

those pieces of paper,  which should have been gold...

[HealingVibrations]

Gold is corrupt, it is an illusion of mind to accept any of this worldly crap. Money or gold or silver or digits in a computer screen, are all scams on humanity, The people who make the rules have the Gold and the money, that is all the money is for, to keep slaves working. The rich do no work, the only work they do is to come up with laws to make other people work for them, and they pay cops money to boss the people around. At the casino the house always wins. Money is the root of inequality

[AmeriKidz]

Friend, I abhor your mysticism in terms of 'worldly crap'. That line of thinking is dull and unattractive. Am I to ponder for hours a question like; What's more important -my perception of reality or, the reality of my perception? It is what *I* make of it.

[AmeriKidz]

I counter your comment with a quote: "What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love." MLK, jr.

[rabiesisnice]

If not for money then who would do the work? Who would do roofing, or work in slaughter houses, etc? Do you expect men and women to live for each other? The powers that be don't want us to have gold because if we did we might value things more. Citizens might start to demand logic from these people and we can't have that.

[HealingVibrations]

Money is not a fair system of trade, it never has been, why? Ever since money has existed taxes have existed. When they tax the population, they make promises to use the money for the community, but they cannot be held accountable and corruption ensues. The bible even talks about paying tax to Caesar. Taxing is a scam, follow the money, it goes mostly to pay for the war machine of empires. Those who decide where the tax goes, have special interests and get kickbacks from government contracts.

[AmeriKidz]

It is the fairest by far my friend. I hate taxes too but, you state a very simplistic view and a bit misguided. You should try and read Atlas Shrugged cover-to-cover. I think you may actually understand what this video really means. You just may go Galt;-)

[Guevaristas]

lol oh you libertarians are a bore, ranting on and on about tax

[olipop84]

great speech! everyone should hear or read this speech or better yet, read Atlas Shrugged!

[brasso4u]

You hear it said that we must share our wealth with the less fortunate. Taking my money from me with the threat of imprisonment is not 'sharing'-it's robbery. And who gets to judge what people living under what conditions are to be labeled 'less fortunate'? Apparently not me. Mustang607 said it well. Remember that you cannot call it voluntary, or co-operation, or sharing when it is done with a gun to your head. I refuse to 'co-operate' any longer. I'm pulling a 'John Galt' and dropping out.

[AmeriKidz]

Your not alone. Hundreds of thousands of people are dropping out and 'going Galt' by moving out of states like California and Michigan to states like Texas. Personally, I think it's time to move to New Zealand.

[bradmanthethird]

exactly, the government should leave compassion to those who have it.

[Martintfre]

Audit the FED!

[unclecom1]

@mustang607 where do you think government gets the money it gives away? It gets it from achievers, from people who first think and then act based on its resultant - intelligence.

[Roannepur]

Its really good to hear this speech. Gave me of inspiration to. Kept it up.

[Sam26100]

Love the speech, did you do the reading? I don't recognize this audio recording

[Archon220]

One of best speeches in book

[mustang607]

Today, the most money is made mostly by those who can best manipulate government.  Not by individual effort and reason but by using the guns of looters.