tis in our nature if we wander off such a path we are met with pain. We must migrate to a new future instead of staying in our decaying comfort spot that is what we r missing though it's like herding cats it can be done in using tools we have but nvr thought in using and may sound crazy. Though we're too deep in our own fesses to get out we must continue with a failed plan and still make it win it's not that they fight but rather run from their mistakes early on.
all subsidies and market orders create a government monopoly and eliminate the free market that existed before the monopoly existed. If no one is willing to admit that we have a fascist country, and have had since 1970 , we do not have any chance of avoiding being a communist slave state.we need a commercial rights amendment, a flat tax, we need to close the fed/state bureaucracy government and sell it's assets in a zero minimum/closed bid auction immediately.
@kuhioffxi I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative. I just think for myself. Unlike you, who watches one sly "info" video put out by a certain group with an agenda and then thinks they agree with it because it's in a formula a 5 year old would understand. Ever hear of there being another half of the story? Btw, thanks again for labeling me, as most conservatives tend to do.
@SoleilCollective And here we still are; you continuing to “nuh uh” and I’m still thinking you sound like a “government knows best unless it’s controlled by people I don’t like” Liberal. The reason I think you’re full of crap is because you don’t directly address any of his points and go directly to discrediting the messenger. The simplicity of his message is not the problem. Your inability to understand the message is.
@kuhioffxi Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
@kuhioffxi Okay. Can we not all agree on common sense? No book needs a label if you are respectful to all information provided to you for study. You shouldn't believe a certain political view or religion without STUDYING first. Otherwise it's indoctrination. Our education is government-run, so responsibility lies within it to create an open-minded generation. And NOT to put warning labels on textbooks. End of story.
@TheSmackerlacker-You're totaly wrong. If Ron Paul was like the rest and willing to say anything and everything he has to in order to get your vote, he wouldn't have been saying the same things for decades. Dr Paul is guided by the cause of individual liberty and the constitution..
@RickeyRamone That being said, he's still someone that believes in gov't which is one of the most salient factors amongst the lot. Ron Paul, just as the rest, supports the right of Gov't to establish itself as a monopoly for national defense and other things. He's a much nicer mafioso, but still a mafioso none the less.
It shows how things like Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Unemployment benefits/food stamps etc. dwarf the rest of government expenditure. Subsidies make up a rather small fraction of the budget. It's the social welfarism which is bankrupting America.
Brilliant! Why is Ron Paul the only pres candidate who understands and agrees with this analysis? Why is Obama so clueless and and Romney almost as bad? Both Obama and Romney favor bailouts. Part of the problem is that in 2008, the biggest contributor to Obama was Goldman Sachs. Now in 2012, the biggest contributor to Romney is Goldman Sachs. By contrast, Ron Paul's campaign funds come from millions of small donors.
@RickeyRamone Don't start with that crap. Every single presidential candidate is shit. At least, every candidate since Clinton.
Ron Paul is just like all the rest. He'll say anything and everything he has to in order to get your vote. Then he'll do whatever the fuck he wants while in office, then get reelected by idiots who think "Maybe he won't fuck up this time.".
@TheSmackerlacker You think that Clinton wasn't shit? RP is better than Clinton by miles, just as Clinton was miles better than either Bush. Yes, it is all bullshit.
@TheSmackerlacker You don't give the congress any credit for the balanced budget? Truly, how much of that was Clinton's actions? Not much. True, he was one of the better presidents in recent memory, and yep, it isn't saying much. It's on par with saying he was a nicer, more effective mob boss.
@NativeNewMexican Let me put it this way. Clinton is the only president I know of that Congress didn't want reelected. Whatever the reasons, that makes him aces in my book.
@TheSmackerlacker RP is the only candidate that Congress, the Military Industrial Complex, Big Business, and Big Media don't want elected in the primaries. Shouldn't that make him Aces in your book too?
@NativeNewMexican No, because he's also a psychotic, creationist wackjob, or pretending to be. In either case, he's not going to be my leader any time soon.
@TheSmackerlacker Psychotic? Ad Hom. Creationist? Yeah, that's a bad one. His policies and voting record, however, have nothing at all to do with creationism and are consistently towards more freedom for you. Why do you feel you have to have a leader at all?
What you want is not free market, what you want is called Feudalism. You can make tons of videos if you don't adress the relation between rich and poor. Boss and worker it comes all second.
@Kritiker9 Feudalism,really? A system in which king owns all the land,gives portions to his friends which than make people work for him or kills them.Are you sure you know what are you talking about.You compare that to free market in which you can get hired by a boss if you chose so or hire people on your own if you choose so.Are you sure that you know what are you talking about.
@olhsaoagpaigfbp - If the gov would not set working time limits many workers more would die because over-worked. Burnout was allready known in manchester capitalism.
The only freedom there is more than in royal times, is, that you can choose your king. And that the "kings" rights are limited by the govs. The bosses (the rich) who are the only who own the land and can with this lend money, let people work for them on their land... you don't really have the choice.. the market dictates...
@Kritiker9 Ok so I live in a country which is more socialism than capitalism,got a job offer for 12-16 h a day,1,8$/h and i was 16,it was against regulation min wage,child labor,work hours,no vacation and no lunch break,regulation didn't save me from "unfair" conditions me declining the offer did.Some other dudes accepted,cause it's better than starving.
@Kritiker9 Sry don't want to disclose personal info on ytube.True capitalism doesn't even exist,maybe in some economic sectors in very few countries,ie. if there is some new way of doing business that governments don't know about yet,and in illegal drugs market,although it is illegal,that just makes it a high risk business,but other than that it's free market,And by the way,have you ever heard of drug market crash and recession?Rest is all regulated so it's not free market capitalism.
@olhsaoagpaigfbp high risk drives prices up, makes it less attractive and accessable for children e.g. of course it is not perfect, but it is better.. of course you hear of recession in the drug market.. when the violence is rising, than you can expect market saturation...
@Kritiker9 How does this have anything to do with what I sad?Yes higher risk drives upothe prices,market saturation lowers them,and the point of that is what?
@Kritiker9 As for you not liking your "king",capitalism would allow you to be your own,and no you don't have to be rich to achieve that,I'm at my second attempt to do so and so far its going good,first time my country implemented some EU health regulation on assumption that what i wanted to do was harmful(no studies were done) and made it illegal.Don't have any skills that would allow you that?Well can you feed an animal and clean some poop?Easier to whine for handout obviously.
@olhsaoagpaigfbp said [[ Feudalism,really? A system in which king owns all the land,gives portions to his friends which than make people work for him or kills them.Are you sure you know what are you talking about.]]
There are one size fits all solutions that everyone can agree on. I don't want crop prices to skyrocket every time there is a bad year, I want cheap and high quality health insurance, I want efficient public transport, and I want an education. I don't give a damn if anyone says that government can't do these things because I've seen them do it well in Germany and New Zealand. Reality trumps any theoretical model.
Although Thomas Hobbes had shown support for democratic institutions, he had famously pointed out, accurately, the state of Human nature; namely that it is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
We are inherently greedy, selfish and untrustworthy sentient animals. We HAVE to be controlled, we HAVE to be kept in check, we HAVE to be regulated, because the alternative is even worse.
Forget "Who watches the watchmen", who watches YOU?
Libertarians: Lets all go back to the 19th century. Because were things great in factories before labour laws, safety regulations and labour having a voice and we could say that everyone who was poor was as such because they were stupid and lazy?
Libertarians: Lets all go back to the 19th century. Because were things great in factories before labour laws, safety regulations and labour having a voice and we could say that everyone who was poor was as such because they were stupid and lazy?
If you dont want your child working, then dont let him work, you dont need a law to prohibit them from working when all you need to do is be responsible.
You cannot tell me that every single safety regulation was needed. Do we need the TSA? I say no because an airport would have an interest to not see their plane blow up.
Libertarians want to silence that voice. They are not Democrats, they are plutocrats. When power is not held by the elected government, it has not been destroyed, its lying there to be picked up by those with influence, those with money. They do not have the greater good of humanity or society as their primary concern.
As for child labour, they will remove all safety nets and measures to ensure higher wages. It will be work or starve, even for kids.
@ImperatorZor Libertarians are not silencing any voice.
Thats why you elect politicians who do not give out special privileges or bailouts.
The greater good of humanity is not achieved by Liberal policies. It is individuals pursuing their own self interest which makes this country great, because you can only obtain money through a voluntary transaction for the most part, unless you are government and you take it.
Competition always reduces prices and increase wages.
@superlucci Welcome to the real world, were outcomes are 999 times out of 1000 determined by who is set up first. Who has largescale plant, capital and connections. If some upstart rival might be a threat, buy him out or price cut him into oblivion. You get a few big boys on top that no one can compete with.
The self interest of the big guys often involves stomping on a lot of little guys. Don't believe me, look up what life was like in your utopia of victorian england for the poor.
@ImperatorZor Oh stop with the idea that somebody born poor cannot possibly move into middle class and that somebody born middle class cannot possibly move into rich tier.
You cant force a person to be bought out. And if what you said was true, then there would be no small businesses right now because they would have already been bought up, which is obviously not the case.
Whats wrong with price cutting? Thats the point of competition! Lower prices for us consumers ALL THE TIME!
The Invisable Hand of the Free market is not some god that solves all problems by not offending it with with taxes and regulations. There is a use for regulation and for the government. It builds infrastructure and other things that are not praticularly profitable to make, but good for society. For example if all roads were private, their would need to be tool booths every hundred meters and it would be a pain in the ass to move anything across country on them.
@ImperatorZor Nobody said it was a God. But neither is government.
No Libertarians advocate for the abolishment of the Federal Government. They advocate for limiting it. To only use it for protecting ourselves against 3rd party effects. IE Enemies.
Taking money from somebody and giving it to somebody else is not productive, period.
What makes you think private corporations could not provide these needs?
Your wrong on the roads thing. You dont need toll booths every single time.
I am not naive enough to assume that corperations don't always act in the public interest. They act to make a profit. If that means reducing people to wage slaves and polluting, thats what they will do.
They hold power, money IS power. Anything that weilds power needs checks on it to prevent it abusing said power. That is the function of the state.
Also, your kind wants the streets littered with the corpses of poor people who have starved to death when a recession happens.
@ImperatorZor Who checks the government for its power? You want the government to put a check on everybodies power, but who checks the governments power? Thats where you are flawed.
You alo arent taking human nature and common sense into the equation.
Using your logic I could ban anything because it can be described as power that can be abused.
Oh bullshit dude. Bullshit.
Before welfare and all these entitlement programs were enacted, you didnt see poor people dying in the fucking streets
I did not say ban, i said regulate. As for your question of who keeps check on the government the people do, as does the constitution. Thats the point of democracy. If they are not doing an adequate job, an educated populace sees that and replaces them.
As for people starving to death in the streets, thats what happened during the great depression. And to avoid starving to death, people will work for just enough money for a loaf of bread a day. And have.
@ImperatorZor How does buying out somebody stomp them? They made them better off.
Why dont I just tell a rich person that I had a thought about making a small business without actually making it to see if he will buy me out. Its not as easy as you think.
WTF does England have to do with anything? Nobody has said England is somehow a free market.
Basically your entire comment showsyou completely lack any understanding of how free markets work
Victorian England was really into the whole "Free Market solves all ills in every instance" thing. Buisinesses were free to run as they wanted. They paid their workers very little, made them work long hours in unsafe conditions, cities were dirty and unsanitary.
Then poor people got the vote and gradually the government made rules to prevent that shit from happening so that people were not. Read "The Jungle", about american slaughterhouses, but its the same idea.
@ImperatorZor I bet you ddnt have real competition in Victorian England because if you did, and nobody had a monopoly on ANYTHING, competition would naturally take care of those problems.
Nah, there was competition between companies. They were really keen on what liberatians were keen on, an unregulated market. Anyone who knows about the 19th century will tell you that. And those teaming masses of poor workers, obviously they were too stupid to better their condition (in their words).
What about the banking and monetary system Learn Liberty?! Did you forget that the only reason the government can be big is because our system of money (US Dollar) is fraudulent and controlled by the elite? I do appreciate your videos.
Somalia, you mean the country where the US is funding warlords to impose a regime that it's people don't want and at the same time creating islamic fundies thanks to western intervention?
Somalis have always been culturally decentralized. There is no state because they don't want it, yet their economy is thriving compared to it's neighbours.
It's the Western imperialism fucking everything up, as usual.
I would say that the solution is to get politics out of our lives instead. I am an Anarcho capitalist and firmly believe that a state less society would solve most problems, not because a stateless society is perfect but because most societal problems come from the state.
all of this capitalist propaganda is now coming out more frequently after the zingiest movement came out the Venus project and many other videos like this. capitalist are getting scare that people are finally realizing that we could have a better future if we change the way we behave when it comes to resource management and wealth distribution for public services.
i mean there's nothing wrong with changing our energy source from coal to wind power, but since coal industry is how they-
@juanlmesl get the big money then they will prevent that from happening, just like gas, we will keep selling oil even if its not ours just to make the profit, invade as much country as possible to secure new oil industry and just keep selling, fuck the ozone layer and global warming right? /watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0 its time to grow up guys Capitalism is just a cycle system of consumerism wage slavery ect. /watch?v=6ftF8sXzoWk and /watch?v=lU23_XJbew4 (wake up people)
@juanlmesl Captalism is free trade. Meaning you obtain things by trading and not through force. So free trade means no violence and no violence and means peace. Conclusion, you are just another thug promoting violence.
@Bleakfacts capitalism will always be a system of money and profit nothing else. all we want is a better world. and that goes for all humans that care for humanity not money
@juanlmesl Capitalism will always be the system that yields the best results for, by far, the most people, having lifted the living standards over the last three centuries, particularly for the poor and working classes, more than any other system ever conceived by the mind of Man.
Attempting to build an economic system that ignores a fundamental aspect of human nature (self-interest) is doomed to failure (socialism, Venus Project, Zeitgeist Movement, communism ... but I repeat myself).
@FletchforFreedom i keep hearing the same stuff all the time oh capitalism helps people to get out of poverty well my friend the reason there's poverty in the first place is because of Capitalism, it limits resources and it changes the political and economic way of life for everyone, it gives you a fake economy where you have to enslave your self to work 8 hrs for 7.45 per hour so you can earn enough men made money so you could buy something produce in another country under a fake economy.
@juanlmesl You keep hearing but failing to learn, spouting instead long-debunked VP nonsense. Capitalism is neither more nor less than economic liberty. It has vastly increased the availability of resources, again, particularly for the poor and working classes whose lives have been made massively better since the begining of the Industrial Revolution. That resources are limited and human beings must work to obtain them are not conditions of capitalism; they're conditions of reality.
@FletchforFreedom /watch?v=-fUza_chHSQ and /watch?v=uT0XNESuyqQ and last /watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ and stop it with all this capitalist bull shit. you know that capitalism is not the future.
@juanlmesl Be serious. look up the term "confirmation bias" and then look in a mirror. First you link to a video describing the disaster that is the British welfare state (and idiotically blame it on capitalism). Then you link to the never credible "economic hitmen" idiocy. But then you DO at least demonstrate that Wile E. Coyote is more credible than any Venus project/Zeitgeist Movement drone.
@juanlmesl Wow. Can you give us links to Wile E. Coyote telling us the best ways to catch a road runner? At least that would be a more credible source.
@juanlmesl Like most advocates of capitalism, I am most concerned with our future and how best to improve the lives of my fellow man. I reject the collectivism of socialism/communism/Venus Project/Zeitgeist Movement because it was proven long ago to be completely unworkable (the socialist calculation problem - look it up), which explains why every attempt to implement it has been a colossal failure.
The faith-based VP only violates science, history and reality. That's all.
@FletchforFreedom collectivism . i like to speak with common sense. and this is how the world should work. if you are doing some kind of work by your self for two or three hours and make some progress and them at least four friends comes alone and help you with your work, dont you think that your work will go a lot faster cheaper and more productive? communism never happen in the soviets country because they had a State controlled economy a state owner ship not a common owner ship.
@juanlmesl How you think the world "should" work is irrelevant. It simply CAN'T work that way without changing human nature (which is impossible). Capitalism is all about people cooperating to achieve common goals - typically providing better goods and services in the marketplace (which is the source of the tremendous boom in technology). Theoretical communism never existed because, again, it CAN'T. What resulted was the inevitable outcome.
@FletchforFreedom communism is not what they teach you in school. its true liberty not the crap we have now that makes you work under some rich guy who only pays me a small fraction of the wealth i might produce. ok so you tell me what are those protest is all about? in wall street? about we are the 99% ? communism? nope is capitalism working the way it suppose to by enslaving the people and taking advantage of them.
/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A&feature=related this one is long :P
@juanlmesl Communism is an impossible pipe-dream. Again, it has been thoroughly debunked from the labor theory of value (marginal utility) to the viability of collective economics (the economic calculation problem). Capitalism has made workers tremendously wealthier than they could ever otherwise have been (the compression of wages has been debunked too). The protesters are an irrelevant group of ill-informed agitators blaming the wrong people for their own inadequacies.
@juanlmesl As for Stefan's video, I am largely ina agreement with it and his complaints about the STATE. He is PRO-capitalism and has repeatedly demonstrated the irredeamable flaws in the Venus project nonsenss.
@FletchforFreedom ok this is the last thing im going to say since i have work to do LOL. about the last video i like it because that's the only true problem we all have in common (the government) it only works the way it wants to work. this is why an economic system does not matter if its capitalism communism even humanism (i made that up) the system will always be in trouble because the government is always getting its nose where we dont need it. i just want a better future that's all :)
@juanlmesl You make my point for me. Capitalism is the exercise of the powers of ownership over the means of production PRIVATELY; in short, the free market. Government activity is not an aspect of capitalism as, by definition, state action is the collective exercise of those powers (ostensibly on behalf of the people). It is the collective that has caused the problems we are enduring, NOT capitalism.
Profits, profits, profits. Free market motives will solve all of our problems like campaign finance and managing your public and private life on your own. It's been working so well for that purpose in the past and present.
Because you know: government is trying to stop you from doing your own thing all of a sudden, right now(specifically) and for some random, unknown reason. And no industry wants that or has any interest in what they think you should be paid or what you buy. Makes sense right?
@hybridmcgee Hello? Government trying to force people to buy health insurance or be fined? Ring any bells? Perhaps your new to the country. It's been kind of a big deal lately. And by the way, we don't have a totally free market economy. We have too much government intervention like the Community Reinvestment Act, that basically started all this economic mess we're in right now. Try to keep up.
@hybridmcgee - Because it is TOTALLY government's business what I choose to do with my own time and money - especially if all people involved agreed to whatever the transaction is... right?
Regulators never cave into serving the interests of the regulated. And the rivers flow uphill too.
How do people not grasp this concept? Can someone lead me to the counter argument. I want to hear the other side. Until then, free markets and liberty is the future we must all seek.
This is the political and philosophical conversation we need to be having in this country, not the jingoistic, idiotic conversation that the two established parties would chain us to.
We didnt choose war on 9/11, it chose us. we had to defend ourselves overseas, if we didnt millions of americans could have been killed inside our borders.
Can you please explain why providing subsidies for higher education is a bad thing. Also contrast this with why K-12 is free but how more useful and more profitable job skills taught/offered in college aren't also offered for free.
@mechadamuramu Good question, The reason we originally provided K-12 was not to "ensure" better futures for everyone, but to give everyone a "chance" to ensure a better future for themselves. It was also to enhance our democracy, for ignorance is the enemy of a free society.
@mechadamuramu Now onto why Higher education isn't subsidized by the taxpayers. K-12 also shows who's fit for college. College isn't meant for everyone and just because you go there doesn't mean your going to be wealthier in life for it. Those who do have potential at taking advantage of a college education can get a loan and go to college and will hopefully make the most of it play their cards and life will pan out right and eventually they'll make enough money to pay off the...
@mechadamuramu ... The loan with interest and make even more money to buy whatever else they want. Also in the world of supply and demand if everyone had the potential to go to college and get a degree. There would be too many degree's and the regard for those with degree's would diminish, thus diminishing their value. For instance an African American held to a lower educational standard may be overlooked for a job. Unlike an Asian who is held to a higher standard.
In the latest edition of Reason, there is a review of Steven Pinker's latest book. In it, he shows the correlation between teh rise of the state and the reduction in murder rates worldwide. The reduction is remarkable - something like a factor fo 30. Anyway, this shows that states, or something a lot like them, are a good idea. But at the opposite extreme, totalitarianism is not much better than death. Minarchism is the best approach from a pragmatic perspective.
@rbairos1 According to Pinker, the reduction in murder rates is due to 3rd party vengeance. If vengeance is handled by a dissinterested 3rd party, it is less likely to cause escalation of violence. A state is not the only means of administering widespread 3rd party vengeance, but it is the most common. If you have a fairly universal system of justice, then this is "something like a state" even if it is not a state in the strictest sense.
Free markets require strict enforcement of anti-monopoly laws. Large companies use legislation, price-fixing, regulatory exemptions, and secret agreements with suppliers and distributors, to marginalize smaller competition. Like the separation of church and state, there needs to be a realization of the separation of corporation and state. An corporation that harms people, just as a human being is jailed for murder must be terminated from doing further business. That is common sense.
@yoginero Free markets do not "require" external laws or enforcement in and of themselves, so much as the inherent structure provides the individual actor the ability to solve market problems/inefficiencies with ingenuity. Please remember that corporations are a result of a legal status granted by the state. Most modern day market problems are caused by interference, yet curiously the solution is always more interference. Whats the definition of insanity?
also, the state intervention implicitly creates mass corporate structure within the corporation (diseconomy of scale) by expanding the "hierarchial" pyramid which essentially leaves the top owners vastly out of touch with their "own" corporations (the informational scale being distorted). and on a theoretical free market it's predictable that the corporate structure would be far smaller (i.e. the structure would be less complex)
@yoginero Your argument is bizarre. First you say that the free market requires strict enforcement of anti-monopoly laws, then you point out how all the non-free aspects of our market (e.g. those created by government) lead to monopolies.
what this video says is true but it will never work in the days of Citizens united where huge Superpacs can influence the public and the nominees with enormous amounts of money! we need to get money out of the campaign! until then I believe nothing in government will happen in an honest way! Thus most actions taken by government will not help the average person but the very rich special interests in stead!
I would say that the solution is to get politics out of our lives instead. I am an Anarcho capitalist and firmly believe that a state less society would solve most problems, not because a stateless society is perfect but because most societal problems come from the state.
I am amazed at how quickly someone becomes one of my best friends... When someone says they are An-cap I immediately know that tons of respect and praise is appropriate. Have a good weekend my brother....or sister...But most likely brother :)
@niklasbastholmhansen I created a Facebook page called SouthernAnCap a few days ago. Pic is a Gadsden flag on an an-cap background. I post links and discussion topics pretty frequently, but I've only attracted 42 fans so far. Think you can help me get some more?
@niklasbastholmhansen I'm a libertarian/minarchist who hasn't quite converted to ancapism (only because I haven't read enough about it), but you're right. Fuck the state.
global warming is real, dangerous, and urgent. fossil fuel industry violates my property rights. will no one help me sue the fossil fuel industry out of existense?
That was a whole lot of powerful rhetoric with cute little animations, but the truth is that I could see through it all. Yes I believe in free markets, no I don't believe that we have them at current. People are not 'free' to make a consumer vote in this country. We are wage slaves and when we misallocate funds we can wind up on the street. So what do you do when the military industrial fascists tighten the belt so hard that we feel we cant afford obviously superior technology like CFL's?
Excellent response! It leaves me with one big question, how do the free markets prevent strangulation by the invisible hand of Walmart. i.e. everyone wants to save money, everyone shops walmart, walmart employs slave labor in 3rd world, American mom-n-pops go out of business, Americans compete for slave labor jobs. America becomes 3rd world.
@SeanMauer There is plenty of Anti-walmart sentiment, which is incentive for people to compete with Walmart. Walmart long ago passed into 'diseconomy of scale', yet it remains competitive because of barriers to entry for smaller actors. Goods passed between firms are taxed, but goods passed within firms are not. Costs of complying with health and safety regulations are spread over more sales so it has less of an effect on the price tag. Minimum wage means that a kid can't take a moral stand and
Unregulated economies will always lead to masters and serfs, just as they did before we thought to regulate them. Libertarianism is the Conservative version of Utopia. And just as childish and non-reality-based.
@ashleyjohnston if you listen carefully you will notice that he is not saying that he has a better way, he is just saying that the solution presented in this video is full of flaws an inconsistencies, yet he doesn't deliver any real solutions, is easy to say someone is wrong when no alternative solutions are given.
@christianzen2004 I'm not sure if you watched it to the end. He says to cut subsidies and use markets. That sounds like a prescription to me. Simply because it is not a vision for a new government program does not mean it is not an alternative. The alternative is no government program.
All subsidizes, military or otherwise, must stop! What we need is a complete separation of, like the separation of church and state, political power (coercion) and private economic life!
There is one thing that surprised me a little. He portrayed lobbyists negatively while at the same time promoting free markets without regulations. Lobbyists use their influence to rig the game in their favor. So do you guys honestly think that when all regulations are gone suddenly everybody is nice and doesn't use his influence, power and wealth to get ahead anymore while keeping everybody else down? Of course they will. Even more so because now there is nothing the rabble can do about it.
@StoryOfAPanic There is a big difference that you need to consider. While there will never be a world without corruption, in a free market, corrupt people can not utilize the violence of the state to gain advantage and harm others. In addition, the state created fiction that is a corporation would not shield individuals from being punished for their transgressions (like it currently does).
@boxant All I am getting from you is that you don't like the word "government". In an unregulated market such people would simply make deals with each other like they are currently making deals with corrupt politicians. Now the public in principle still has all the power to keep them in check. But once this power is gone...well then everybody who isn't part of the fortunate upper classes is majorly fucked.
@StoryOfAPanic There's plenty of regulation in a free market. It's not just principle. It's principle based on observation. Free market principle is the only thing that explain why anything works. If what you said was true nothing would work and we would be a severely impoverished country, or nonexistent. All your eco. gibberish is simply the twist shadow of free market principle. You ironically bash monopolies while at same time promoting the biggest monopoly ever, government.
@Bleakfacts "plenty of regulation in a free market." Please name them and explain how they prevent the things I mentioned. "nothing would work". I never claimed that. I simply said that things like exploitation, pollution, monopolies, a growing gap between rich and poor, planned obsolescence or unsafe products aren't prevented in a market without any regulations. And yes the government has a monopoly of power as it should have since it is supposed to represent the will of the people.
@StoryOfAPanic First off you have to understand problems are only fixed by those who take the initiative to do so, and in a free society people can recognize such people and give or withdraw from them their support whether at Any Time through donations or purchasing goods. There's no greater regulation then this, and if it did not work there would be no society . Government forces true reformers to go through a mass of bureaucracy on anything it monopolizes creating the problem..
@Bleakfacts And I almost forgot: Since you talked about observation: Have a look at England during the industrialization. Are you going to claim now that the working classes were only exploited because of government regulations?
tis in our nature if we wander off such a path we are met with pain. We must migrate to a new future instead of staying in our decaying comfort spot that is what we r missing though it's like herding cats it can be done in using tools we have but nvr thought in using and may sound crazy. Though we're too deep in our own fesses to get out we must continue with a failed plan and still make it win it's not that they fight but rather run from their mistakes early on.
WhisperShoes 1 day ago in playlist Favorites
all subsidies and market orders create a government monopoly and eliminate the free market that existed before the monopoly existed. If no one is willing to admit that we have a fascist country, and have had since 1970 , we do not have any chance of avoiding being a communist slave state.we need a commercial rights amendment, a flat tax, we need to close the fed/state bureaucracy government and sell it's assets in a zero minimum/closed bid auction immediately.
halloranedward 2 days ago
Can't subsidies be a good thing in the case of positive externalities?
MrPatrickHenryCheryl 4 days ago
The ethanol fiasco ... the perfect example of how government interference in the market just messes things up.
KittenKoder 4 days ago 2
this guy has it all wrong. what is this learnliberty anyway?
SoleilCollective 5 days ago
@SoleilCollective So your rebuttal is “nuh uh”?... Sounds like the Liberal redirect we have come to love and adore.
kuhioffxi 3 days ago
@kuhioffxi I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative. I just think for myself. Unlike you, who watches one sly "info" video put out by a certain group with an agenda and then thinks they agree with it because it's in a formula a 5 year old would understand. Ever hear of there being another half of the story? Btw, thanks again for labeling me, as most conservatives tend to do.
SoleilCollective 3 days ago
@SoleilCollective And here we still are; you continuing to “nuh uh” and I’m still thinking you sound like a “government knows best unless it’s controlled by people I don’t like” Liberal. The reason I think you’re full of crap is because you don’t directly address any of his points and go directly to discrediting the messenger. The simplicity of his message is not the problem. Your inability to understand the message is.
kuhioffxi 3 days ago
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@kuhioffxi Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
marionetemanJ 2 days ago
@kuhioffxi Okay. Can we not all agree on common sense? No book needs a label if you are respectful to all information provided to you for study. You shouldn't believe a certain political view or religion without STUDYING first. Otherwise it's indoctrination. Our education is government-run, so responsibility lies within it to create an open-minded generation. And NOT to put warning labels on textbooks. End of story.
SoleilCollective 2 days ago
@TheSmackerlacker-You're totaly wrong. If Ron Paul was like the rest and willing to say anything and everything he has to in order to get your vote, he wouldn't have been saying the same things for decades. Dr Paul is guided by the cause of individual liberty and the constitution..
RickeyRamone 1 week ago
@RickeyRamone That being said, he's still someone that believes in gov't which is one of the most salient factors amongst the lot. Ron Paul, just as the rest, supports the right of Gov't to establish itself as a monopoly for national defense and other things. He's a much nicer mafioso, but still a mafioso none the less.
NativeNewMexican 1 week ago
whoever made this channel and videos, I love you.
nemesisurvivorleon 1 week ago in playlist Favorites
Check out: /watch?v=u24nH03NccI&context=C3a278b3ADOEgsToPDskJ3fILDSsYq8UkubTtN3gYP
It shows how things like Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Unemployment benefits/food stamps etc. dwarf the rest of government expenditure. Subsidies make up a rather small fraction of the budget. It's the social welfarism which is bankrupting America.
JoeJC 1 week ago
Brilliant! Why is Ron Paul the only pres candidate who understands and agrees with this analysis? Why is Obama so clueless and and Romney almost as bad? Both Obama and Romney favor bailouts. Part of the problem is that in 2008, the biggest contributor to Obama was Goldman Sachs. Now in 2012, the biggest contributor to Romney is Goldman Sachs. By contrast, Ron Paul's campaign funds come from millions of small donors.
RickeyRamone 1 week ago
@RickeyRamone Don't start with that crap. Every single presidential candidate is shit. At least, every candidate since Clinton.
Ron Paul is just like all the rest. He'll say anything and everything he has to in order to get your vote. Then he'll do whatever the fuck he wants while in office, then get reelected by idiots who think "Maybe he won't fuck up this time.".
It's all bullshit.
TheSmackerlacker 1 week ago
@TheSmackerlacker You think that Clinton wasn't shit? RP is better than Clinton by miles, just as Clinton was miles better than either Bush. Yes, it is all bullshit.
NativeNewMexican 1 week ago
@NativeNewMexican Our federal budget has been balanced six times in the last half century, four times under Clinton.
He was, without question, the best president in recent memory, which isn't saying much.
TheSmackerlacker 1 week ago
@TheSmackerlacker You don't give the congress any credit for the balanced budget? Truly, how much of that was Clinton's actions? Not much. True, he was one of the better presidents in recent memory, and yep, it isn't saying much. It's on par with saying he was a nicer, more effective mob boss.
NativeNewMexican 1 week ago
@NativeNewMexican Let me put it this way. Clinton is the only president I know of that Congress didn't want reelected. Whatever the reasons, that makes him aces in my book.
TheSmackerlacker 1 week ago
@TheSmackerlacker RP is the only candidate that Congress, the Military Industrial Complex, Big Business, and Big Media don't want elected in the primaries. Shouldn't that make him Aces in your book too?
NativeNewMexican 1 week ago
@NativeNewMexican No, because he's also a psychotic, creationist wackjob, or pretending to be. In either case, he's not going to be my leader any time soon.
TheSmackerlacker 1 week ago
@TheSmackerlacker Psychotic? Ad Hom. Creationist? Yeah, that's a bad one. His policies and voting record, however, have nothing at all to do with creationism and are consistently towards more freedom for you. Why do you feel you have to have a leader at all?
NativeNewMexican 1 week ago
This is the first video on the subject that I have nothing to add or correct. Well done, well done.
KittenKoder 1 week ago
Brilliant look on the subject.
PrincessSaenz 2 weeks ago
What you want is not free market, what you want is called Feudalism. You can make tons of videos if you don't adress the relation between rich and poor. Boss and worker it comes all second.
Kritiker9 3 weeks ago
@Kritiker9 Feudalism,really? A system in which king owns all the land,gives portions to his friends which than make people work for him or kills them.Are you sure you know what are you talking about.You compare that to free market in which you can get hired by a boss if you chose so or hire people on your own if you choose so.Are you sure that you know what are you talking about.
olhsaoagpaigfbp 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorites 14
@olhsaoagpaigfbp - If the gov would not set working time limits many workers more would die because over-worked. Burnout was allready known in manchester capitalism.
The only freedom there is more than in royal times, is, that you can choose your king. And that the "kings" rights are limited by the govs. The bosses (the rich) who are the only who own the land and can with this lend money, let people work for them on their land... you don't really have the choice.. the market dictates...
Kritiker9 2 weeks ago
@Kritiker9 Ok so I live in a country which is more socialism than capitalism,got a job offer for 12-16 h a day,1,8$/h and i was 16,it was against regulation min wage,child labor,work hours,no vacation and no lunch break,regulation didn't save me from "unfair" conditions me declining the offer did.Some other dudes accepted,cause it's better than starving.
olhsaoagpaigfbp 2 weeks ago
@olhsaoagpaigfbp what country? this competition thing is capitalism.. as capitalism is global, the labour rules should also be global ..
Kritiker9 2 weeks ago
@Kritiker9 Sry don't want to disclose personal info on ytube.True capitalism doesn't even exist,maybe in some economic sectors in very few countries,ie. if there is some new way of doing business that governments don't know about yet,and in illegal drugs market,although it is illegal,that just makes it a high risk business,but other than that it's free market,And by the way,have you ever heard of drug market crash and recession?Rest is all regulated so it's not free market capitalism.
olhsaoagpaigfbp 2 weeks ago
@olhsaoagpaigfbp high risk drives prices up, makes it less attractive and accessable for children e.g. of course it is not perfect, but it is better.. of course you hear of recession in the drug market.. when the violence is rising, than you can expect market saturation...
Kritiker9 2 weeks ago
@Kritiker9 How does this have anything to do with what I sad?Yes higher risk drives upothe prices,market saturation lowers them,and the point of that is what?
olhsaoagpaigfbp 1 week ago
@Kritiker9 As for you not liking your "king",capitalism would allow you to be your own,and no you don't have to be rich to achieve that,I'm at my second attempt to do so and so far its going good,first time my country implemented some EU health regulation on assumption that what i wanted to do was harmful(no studies were done) and made it illegal.Don't have any skills that would allow you that?Well can you feed an animal and clean some poop?Easier to whine for handout obviously.
olhsaoagpaigfbp 2 weeks ago
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@olhsaoagpaigfbp said [[ Feudalism,really? A system in which king owns all the land,gives portions to his friends which than make people work for him or kills them.Are you sure you know what are you talking about.]]
It's typical Marxist blather.
LucisFerre1 1 week ago
There are one size fits all solutions that everyone can agree on. I don't want crop prices to skyrocket every time there is a bad year, I want cheap and high quality health insurance, I want efficient public transport, and I want an education. I don't give a damn if anyone says that government can't do these things because I've seen them do it well in Germany and New Zealand. Reality trumps any theoretical model.
AllOtherNamesTaken2 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorites
This is what happens when you leave the government in charge. Bad outcomes.
vonGleichenT 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorites
Military spending is out of control.
vonGleichenT 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorites
Although Thomas Hobbes had shown support for democratic institutions, he had famously pointed out, accurately, the state of Human nature; namely that it is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
We are inherently greedy, selfish and untrustworthy sentient animals. We HAVE to be controlled, we HAVE to be kept in check, we HAVE to be regulated, because the alternative is even worse.
Forget "Who watches the watchmen", who watches YOU?
TheVoiceOfReason93 4 weeks ago
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Libertarians: Lets all go back to the 19th century. Because were things great in factories before labour laws, safety regulations and labour having a voice and we could say that everyone who was poor was as such because they were stupid and lazy?
ImperatorZor 1 month ago
Libertarians: Lets all go back to the 19th century. Because were things great in factories before labour laws, safety regulations and labour having a voice and we could say that everyone who was poor was as such because they were stupid and lazy?
ImperatorZor 1 month ago
@ImperatorZor Such a strawman.
If you dont want your child working, then dont let him work, you dont need a law to prohibit them from working when all you need to do is be responsible.
You cannot tell me that every single safety regulation was needed. Do we need the TSA? I say no because an airport would have an interest to not see their plane blow up.
You have always had a voice.
superlucci 4 weeks ago
Libertarians want to silence that voice. They are not Democrats, they are plutocrats. When power is not held by the elected government, it has not been destroyed, its lying there to be picked up by those with influence, those with money. They do not have the greater good of humanity or society as their primary concern.
As for child labour, they will remove all safety nets and measures to ensure higher wages. It will be work or starve, even for kids.
ImperatorZor 4 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Libertarians are not silencing any voice.
Thats why you elect politicians who do not give out special privileges or bailouts.
The greater good of humanity is not achieved by Liberal policies. It is individuals pursuing their own self interest which makes this country great, because you can only obtain money through a voluntary transaction for the most part, unless you are government and you take it.
Competition always reduces prices and increase wages.
superlucci 4 weeks ago
@superlucci Welcome to the real world, were outcomes are 999 times out of 1000 determined by who is set up first. Who has largescale plant, capital and connections. If some upstart rival might be a threat, buy him out or price cut him into oblivion. You get a few big boys on top that no one can compete with.
The self interest of the big guys often involves stomping on a lot of little guys. Don't believe me, look up what life was like in your utopia of victorian england for the poor.
ImperatorZor 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Oh stop with the idea that somebody born poor cannot possibly move into middle class and that somebody born middle class cannot possibly move into rich tier.
You cant force a person to be bought out. And if what you said was true, then there would be no small businesses right now because they would have already been bought up, which is obviously not the case.
Whats wrong with price cutting? Thats the point of competition! Lower prices for us consumers ALL THE TIME!
superlucci 3 weeks ago
The Invisable Hand of the Free market is not some god that solves all problems by not offending it with with taxes and regulations. There is a use for regulation and for the government. It builds infrastructure and other things that are not praticularly profitable to make, but good for society. For example if all roads were private, their would need to be tool booths every hundred meters and it would be a pain in the ass to move anything across country on them.
ImperatorZor 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Nobody said it was a God. But neither is government.
No Libertarians advocate for the abolishment of the Federal Government. They advocate for limiting it. To only use it for protecting ourselves against 3rd party effects. IE Enemies.
Taking money from somebody and giving it to somebody else is not productive, period.
What makes you think private corporations could not provide these needs?
Your wrong on the roads thing. You dont need toll booths every single time.
superlucci 3 weeks ago
I am not naive enough to assume that corperations don't always act in the public interest. They act to make a profit. If that means reducing people to wage slaves and polluting, thats what they will do.
They hold power, money IS power. Anything that weilds power needs checks on it to prevent it abusing said power. That is the function of the state.
Also, your kind wants the streets littered with the corpses of poor people who have starved to death when a recession happens.
ImperatorZor 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Of course corporations are there to make a profit.
There is no such thing as wage slavery, your not a slave.
If i tried to hire people for 1 penny an hour, nobody would take the job. So 1 of 2 things are going to happen.
1. I continue being stubborn and go out of business because nobody will work for me for 1 penny an hour. OR
2. I wise up and raise that wage and continue raising it till somebody comes along and thinks thats enough for him to work for me. Its their choice
superlucci 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Who checks the government for its power? You want the government to put a check on everybodies power, but who checks the governments power? Thats where you are flawed.
You alo arent taking human nature and common sense into the equation.
Using your logic I could ban anything because it can be described as power that can be abused.
Oh bullshit dude. Bullshit.
Before welfare and all these entitlement programs were enacted, you didnt see poor people dying in the fucking streets
superlucci 3 weeks ago
I did not say ban, i said regulate. As for your question of who keeps check on the government the people do, as does the constitution. Thats the point of democracy. If they are not doing an adequate job, an educated populace sees that and replaces them.
As for people starving to death in the streets, thats what happened during the great depression. And to avoid starving to death, people will work for just enough money for a loaf of bread a day. And have.
ImperatorZor 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Due to your last sentence I know that your just going to put words into my mouth, so I will end this debate here.
Use common sense, and you wont have to worry about these fucking things. Jesus.
superlucci 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor Go to google and type in "Private sector take care of roads"
And click the first link, there you will see
superlucci 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor How does buying out somebody stomp them? They made them better off.
Why dont I just tell a rich person that I had a thought about making a small business without actually making it to see if he will buy me out. Its not as easy as you think.
WTF does England have to do with anything? Nobody has said England is somehow a free market.
Basically your entire comment showsyou completely lack any understanding of how free markets work
superlucci 3 weeks ago
Victorian England was really into the whole "Free Market solves all ills in every instance" thing. Buisinesses were free to run as they wanted. They paid their workers very little, made them work long hours in unsafe conditions, cities were dirty and unsanitary.
Then poor people got the vote and gradually the government made rules to prevent that shit from happening so that people were not. Read "The Jungle", about american slaughterhouses, but its the same idea.
ImperatorZor 3 weeks ago
@ImperatorZor I bet you ddnt have real competition in Victorian England because if you did, and nobody had a monopoly on ANYTHING, competition would naturally take care of those problems.
superlucci 3 weeks ago
Nah, there was competition between companies. They were really keen on what liberatians were keen on, an unregulated market. Anyone who knows about the 19th century will tell you that. And those teaming masses of poor workers, obviously they were too stupid to better their condition (in their words).
ImperatorZor 3 weeks ago
What about the banking and monetary system Learn Liberty?! Did you forget that the only reason the government can be big is because our system of money (US Dollar) is fraudulent and controlled by the elite? I do appreciate your videos.
mjboak 1 month ago
This SUIT got off the same short bus as PC GUY.
DeepRainforest 1 month ago
im going to add something intellectual to this discussion. he looks like a turkey. that is all.
sLugf3st 1 month ago
fuck all statist trolls and war mongers. peace, freedom, and prosperity will win out.
denisonM 1 month ago 5
@denisonM "fuck all statist"
You should disband your government and see how long you last being governless :>
shogu666 1 month ago
@shogu666 Like the Amish?
darkr0astedblend 1 month ago
@darkr0astedblend No not like the Amish , amish pay taxes and enjoy protection of USA army as much as you do.
More like somalia !!!!!
shogu666 1 month ago
@shogu666 Against their will, they pay.
Somalia, you mean the country where the US is funding warlords to impose a regime that it's people don't want and at the same time creating islamic fundies thanks to western intervention?
Somalis have always been culturally decentralized. There is no state because they don't want it, yet their economy is thriving compared to it's neighbours.
It's the Western imperialism fucking everything up, as usual.
darkr0astedblend 1 month ago
@darkr0astedblend "It's the Western imperialism fucking everything up, as usual."
So tell me in your capitalist utopia there will be no-one trying to control anything ??
Of course it will be because game is about EVERYTHING.
Where $ are concerned about your :
* resources access
* Social standing
* education
* much much more up to the point of feeling self-worth.
Do you think people will play by the rules ?? Of course no.
Again, it is a values and incentive disorder.
shogu666 1 month ago
@shogu666 Of course, but I believe that Freedom, not the State, is much better at helping people than top down oppressive systems like we have today.
In a free society everyone can defend themselves(guns) and every business is by itself, with no politicians behind it, no lobbying, no corporation.
If a business does a poor job at serving it's customers, then they will just go somewhere else.
Through taxation and regulation the state takes away too much resources and will from people.
darkr0astedblend 1 month ago
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I would say that the solution is to get politics out of our lives instead. I am an Anarcho capitalist and firmly believe that a state less society would solve most problems, not because a stateless society is perfect but because most societal problems come from the state.
^^^^^^^^^^^^this
denisonM 1 month ago
/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ and /watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A&feature=related
juanlmesl 1 month ago
all of this capitalist propaganda is now coming out more frequently after the zingiest movement came out the Venus project and many other videos like this. capitalist are getting scare that people are finally realizing that we could have a better future if we change the way we behave when it comes to resource management and wealth distribution for public services.
i mean there's nothing wrong with changing our energy source from coal to wind power, but since coal industry is how they-
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl get the big money then they will prevent that from happening, just like gas, we will keep selling oil even if its not ours just to make the profit, invade as much country as possible to secure new oil industry and just keep selling, fuck the ozone layer and global warming right? /watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0 its time to grow up guys Capitalism is just a cycle system of consumerism wage slavery ect. /watch?v=6ftF8sXzoWk and /watch?v=lU23_XJbew4 (wake up people)
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl Captalism is free trade. Meaning you obtain things by trading and not through force. So free trade means no violence and no violence and means peace. Conclusion, you are just another thug promoting violence.
Bleakfacts 1 month ago
@Bleakfacts capitalism will always be a system of money and profit nothing else. all we want is a better world. and that goes for all humans that care for humanity not money
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl Capitalism will always be the system that yields the best results for, by far, the most people, having lifted the living standards over the last three centuries, particularly for the poor and working classes, more than any other system ever conceived by the mind of Man.
Attempting to build an economic system that ignores a fundamental aspect of human nature (self-interest) is doomed to failure (socialism, Venus Project, Zeitgeist Movement, communism ... but I repeat myself).
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
@FletchforFreedom i keep hearing the same stuff all the time oh capitalism helps people to get out of poverty well my friend the reason there's poverty in the first place is because of Capitalism, it limits resources and it changes the political and economic way of life for everyone, it gives you a fake economy where you have to enslave your self to work 8 hrs for 7.45 per hour so you can earn enough men made money so you could buy something produce in another country under a fake economy.
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl You keep hearing but failing to learn, spouting instead long-debunked VP nonsense. Capitalism is neither more nor less than economic liberty. It has vastly increased the availability of resources, again, particularly for the poor and working classes whose lives have been made massively better since the begining of the Industrial Revolution. That resources are limited and human beings must work to obtain them are not conditions of capitalism; they're conditions of reality.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
@FletchforFreedom /watch?v=-fUza_chHSQ and /watch?v=uT0XNESuyqQ and last /watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ and stop it with all this capitalist bull shit. you know that capitalism is not the future.
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl Be serious. look up the term "confirmation bias" and then look in a mirror. First you link to a video describing the disaster that is the British welfare state (and idiotically blame it on capitalism). Then you link to the never credible "economic hitmen" idiocy. But then you DO at least demonstrate that Wile E. Coyote is more credible than any Venus project/Zeitgeist Movement drone.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
@juanlmesl Wow. Can you give us links to Wile E. Coyote telling us the best ways to catch a road runner? At least that would be a more credible source.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
@FletchforFreedom /watch?v=qRzcCbjQ_5I i know as most capitalist you are more interest in this things then our future i am not surprise enjoy :(
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl Like most advocates of capitalism, I am most concerned with our future and how best to improve the lives of my fellow man. I reject the collectivism of socialism/communism/Venus Project/Zeitgeist Movement because it was proven long ago to be completely unworkable (the socialist calculation problem - look it up), which explains why every attempt to implement it has been a colossal failure.
The faith-based VP only violates science, history and reality. That's all.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
@FletchforFreedom collectivism . i like to speak with common sense. and this is how the world should work. if you are doing some kind of work by your self for two or three hours and make some progress and them at least four friends comes alone and help you with your work, dont you think that your work will go a lot faster cheaper and more productive? communism never happen in the soviets country because they had a State controlled economy a state owner ship not a common owner ship.
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl How you think the world "should" work is irrelevant. It simply CAN'T work that way without changing human nature (which is impossible). Capitalism is all about people cooperating to achieve common goals - typically providing better goods and services in the marketplace (which is the source of the tremendous boom in technology). Theoretical communism never existed because, again, it CAN'T. What resulted was the inevitable outcome.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
@FletchforFreedom communism is not what they teach you in school. its true liberty not the crap we have now that makes you work under some rich guy who only pays me a small fraction of the wealth i might produce. ok so you tell me what are those protest is all about? in wall street? about we are the 99% ? communism? nope is capitalism working the way it suppose to by enslaving the people and taking advantage of them.
/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A&feature=related this one is long :P
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl Communism is an impossible pipe-dream. Again, it has been thoroughly debunked from the labor theory of value (marginal utility) to the viability of collective economics (the economic calculation problem). Capitalism has made workers tremendously wealthier than they could ever otherwise have been (the compression of wages has been debunked too). The protesters are an irrelevant group of ill-informed agitators blaming the wrong people for their own inadequacies.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
@juanlmesl As for Stefan's video, I am largely ina agreement with it and his complaints about the STATE. He is PRO-capitalism and has repeatedly demonstrated the irredeamable flaws in the Venus project nonsenss.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
@FletchforFreedom ok this is the last thing im going to say since i have work to do LOL. about the last video i like it because that's the only true problem we all have in common (the government) it only works the way it wants to work. this is why an economic system does not matter if its capitalism communism even humanism (i made that up) the system will always be in trouble because the government is always getting its nose where we dont need it. i just want a better future that's all :)
juanlmesl 1 month ago
@juanlmesl You make my point for me. Capitalism is the exercise of the powers of ownership over the means of production PRIVATELY; in short, the free market. Government activity is not an aspect of capitalism as, by definition, state action is the collective exercise of those powers (ostensibly on behalf of the people). It is the collective that has caused the problems we are enduring, NOT capitalism.
FletchforFreedom 1 month ago
Profits, profits, profits. Free market motives will solve all of our problems like campaign finance and managing your public and private life on your own. It's been working so well for that purpose in the past and present.
Because you know: government is trying to stop you from doing your own thing all of a sudden, right now(specifically) and for some random, unknown reason. And no industry wants that or has any interest in what they think you should be paid or what you buy. Makes sense right?
hybridmcgee 1 month ago
@hybridmcgee Hello? Government trying to force people to buy health insurance or be fined? Ring any bells? Perhaps your new to the country. It's been kind of a big deal lately. And by the way, we don't have a totally free market economy. We have too much government intervention like the Community Reinvestment Act, that basically started all this economic mess we're in right now. Try to keep up.
MrFreeLibertarian 1 month ago
@MrFreeLibertarian You keep up, I'll stay realistic.
hybridmcgee 1 month ago
@hybridmcgee - Because it is TOTALLY government's business what I choose to do with my own time and money - especially if all people involved agreed to whatever the transaction is... right?
Regulators never cave into serving the interests of the regulated. And the rivers flow uphill too.
StateExempt 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@StateExempt Well said. Can't disagree with you there.
hybridmcgee 1 month ago
@StateExempt I think you are being sarcastic, but I am not certain.
hybridmcgee 1 month ago
@hybridmcgee - The mind of a liberal has a hard time making the distinction.
StateExempt 1 month ago
@StateExempt At least I can spot a scam. And eventually the hard-headed reveal themselves by running far from dignity, out of fear of not having any.
hybridmcgee 4 weeks ago
@hybridmcgee - What scam? And who has run from dignity and how?
StateExempt 3 weeks ago
How do people not grasp this concept? Can someone lead me to the counter argument. I want to hear the other side. Until then, free markets and liberty is the future we must all seek.
asg102 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
2:24 love this scene
booyabooyaboom 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
This is the political and philosophical conversation we need to be having in this country, not the jingoistic, idiotic conversation that the two established parties would chain us to.
MabusZero 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
We didnt choose war on 9/11, it chose us. we had to defend ourselves overseas, if we didnt millions of americans could have been killed inside our borders.
samuelgreenway 1 month ago
@samuelgreenway - Why did they attack the US of all places?
StateExempt 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Can you please explain why providing subsidies for higher education is a bad thing. Also contrast this with why K-12 is free but how more useful and more profitable job skills taught/offered in college aren't also offered for free.
Also
mechadamuramu 1 month ago
@mechadamuramu Nothing is free, there are expenses incurred by offering K through 12 for "free" and those expenses are indeed paid for.
eiffuy 1 month ago
@mechadamuramu Good question, The reason we originally provided K-12 was not to "ensure" better futures for everyone, but to give everyone a "chance" to ensure a better future for themselves. It was also to enhance our democracy, for ignorance is the enemy of a free society.
ShamanMcLamie 1 month ago
@mechadamuramu Now onto why Higher education isn't subsidized by the taxpayers. K-12 also shows who's fit for college. College isn't meant for everyone and just because you go there doesn't mean your going to be wealthier in life for it. Those who do have potential at taking advantage of a college education can get a loan and go to college and will hopefully make the most of it play their cards and life will pan out right and eventually they'll make enough money to pay off the...
ShamanMcLamie 1 month ago
@mechadamuramu ... The loan with interest and make even more money to buy whatever else they want. Also in the world of supply and demand if everyone had the potential to go to college and get a degree. There would be too many degree's and the regard for those with degree's would diminish, thus diminishing their value. For instance an African American held to a lower educational standard may be overlooked for a job. Unlike an Asian who is held to a higher standard.
ShamanMcLamie 1 month ago
In the latest edition of Reason, there is a review of Steven Pinker's latest book. In it, he shows the correlation between teh rise of the state and the reduction in murder rates worldwide. The reduction is remarkable - something like a factor fo 30. Anyway, this shows that states, or something a lot like them, are a good idea. But at the opposite extreme, totalitarianism is not much better than death. Minarchism is the best approach from a pragmatic perspective.
eventhisidistaken 1 month ago in playlist Featured Shorts
@eventhisidistaken Don't confuse statism with one of the services it demands a monopoly over: defense.
rbairos1 1 month ago
@rbairos1 According to Pinker, the reduction in murder rates is due to 3rd party vengeance. If vengeance is handled by a dissinterested 3rd party, it is less likely to cause escalation of violence. A state is not the only means of administering widespread 3rd party vengeance, but it is the most common. If you have a fairly universal system of justice, then this is "something like a state" even if it is not a state in the strictest sense.
eventhisidistaken 1 month ago
Free markets require strict enforcement of anti-monopoly laws. Large companies use legislation, price-fixing, regulatory exemptions, and secret agreements with suppliers and distributors, to marginalize smaller competition. Like the separation of church and state, there needs to be a realization of the separation of corporation and state. An corporation that harms people, just as a human being is jailed for murder must be terminated from doing further business. That is common sense.
yoginero 1 month ago
@yoginero Free markets do not "require" external laws or enforcement in and of themselves, so much as the inherent structure provides the individual actor the ability to solve market problems/inefficiencies with ingenuity. Please remember that corporations are a result of a legal status granted by the state. Most modern day market problems are caused by interference, yet curiously the solution is always more interference. Whats the definition of insanity?
aseredy 1 month ago
@aseredy
precisely
also, the state intervention implicitly creates mass corporate structure within the corporation (diseconomy of scale) by expanding the "hierarchial" pyramid which essentially leaves the top owners vastly out of touch with their "own" corporations (the informational scale being distorted). and on a theoretical free market it's predictable that the corporate structure would be far smaller (i.e. the structure would be less complex)
fountainherz 1 month ago
@yoginero Your argument is bizarre. First you say that the free market requires strict enforcement of anti-monopoly laws, then you point out how all the non-free aspects of our market (e.g. those created by government) lead to monopolies.
PissedFechtmeister 1 month ago
That's why I support Ron Paul
jerrylittlemars 1 month ago 65
@me too
avilicous1985 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
@jerrylittlemars - This channel seems to support Ron Paul without saying it.
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smokinghollywoods 1 month ago 3
Awesome video.
Zimnyification 1 month ago
what this video says is true but it will never work in the days of Citizens united where huge Superpacs can influence the public and the nominees with enormous amounts of money! we need to get money out of the campaign! until then I believe nothing in government will happen in an honest way! Thus most actions taken by government will not help the average person but the very rich special interests in stead!
MrByronodmon 1 month ago in playlist Featured Shorts
@MrByronodmon
I would say that the solution is to get politics out of our lives instead. I am an Anarcho capitalist and firmly believe that a state less society would solve most problems, not because a stateless society is perfect but because most societal problems come from the state.
niklasbastholmhansen 1 month ago 4
@niklasbastholmhansen As a fellow an-cap, I wholeheartedly agree.
stalrunner 1 month ago
@stalrunner
I am amazed at how quickly someone becomes one of my best friends... When someone says they are An-cap I immediately know that tons of respect and praise is appropriate. Have a good weekend my brother....or sister...But most likely brother :)
niklasbastholmhansen 1 month ago 3
@niklasbastholmhansen I created a Facebook page called SouthernAnCap a few days ago. Pic is a Gadsden flag on an an-cap background. I post links and discussion topics pretty frequently, but I've only attracted 42 fans so far. Think you can help me get some more?
stalrunner 1 month ago
@stalrunner
Liked and shared. I know a few An-caps(around 25), we will see how many of them join. Have a good weekend my brother
niklasbastholmhansen 1 month ago
@niklasbastholmhansen I'm a libertarian/minarchist who hasn't quite converted to ancapism (only because I haven't read enough about it), but you're right. Fuck the state.
Zimnyification 1 month ago
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Hi Zimny. Hit me up on facebook and I will send you some reading material as a personal message :)
niklasbastholmhansen 1 month ago
@Zimnyification Ancap -> Ashley Subsidiarity Johnston, facebook me!
ashleyjohnston 1 month ago
The "Top Comment" on their YouTube video is a link to this LearnLiberty video. Go over there and give that comment a thumbs up. Thanks.
ggadguy 1 month ago
I like both video's but something seems a miss in both of them.
MrPrior69 1 month ago
global warming is real, dangerous, and urgent. fossil fuel industry violates my property rights. will no one help me sue the fossil fuel industry out of existense?
jffryh 1 month ago
That was a whole lot of powerful rhetoric with cute little animations, but the truth is that I could see through it all. Yes I believe in free markets, no I don't believe that we have them at current. People are not 'free' to make a consumer vote in this country. We are wage slaves and when we misallocate funds we can wind up on the street. So what do you do when the military industrial fascists tighten the belt so hard that we feel we cant afford obviously superior technology like CFL's?
MrBaldurthegood 1 month ago in playlist Economics Playlist
Though this points out the broken portions of an argument, this video reeks of unsupported(in the video) assertions.
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Trackfresh 1 month ago
Lee Doren's video was an awesome tear-down too...
Firestryke2 1 month ago
Fantastic video!
gratedrawur 1 month ago
Excellent response! It leaves me with one big question, how do the free markets prevent strangulation by the invisible hand of Walmart. i.e. everyone wants to save money, everyone shops walmart, walmart employs slave labor in 3rd world, American mom-n-pops go out of business, Americans compete for slave labor jobs. America becomes 3rd world.
SeanMauer 1 month ago
@SeanMauer There is plenty of Anti-walmart sentiment, which is incentive for people to compete with Walmart. Walmart long ago passed into 'diseconomy of scale', yet it remains competitive because of barriers to entry for smaller actors. Goods passed between firms are taxed, but goods passed within firms are not. Costs of complying with health and safety regulations are spread over more sales so it has less of an effect on the price tag. Minimum wage means that a kid can't take a moral stand and
ashleyjohnston 1 month ago
Unregulated economies will always lead to masters and serfs, just as they did before we thought to regulate them. Libertarianism is the Conservative version of Utopia. And just as childish and non-reality-based.
weddingvideosyt 1 month ago
@weddingvideosyt If you mean master and serf as employer and employee we still have that.
Unregulated markets work fine. Look at the stateless territories in the Western US.
crazypants88 1 month ago
so we go from bad to worst and all he does is create more questions, the way I see it he is part of problem no part of the solution.
christianzen2004 1 month ago
@christianzen2004 How do you mean?
ashleyjohnston 1 month ago
@ashleyjohnston if you listen carefully you will notice that he is not saying that he has a better way, he is just saying that the solution presented in this video is full of flaws an inconsistencies, yet he doesn't deliver any real solutions, is easy to say someone is wrong when no alternative solutions are given.
christianzen2004 1 month ago
@christianzen2004 I'm not sure if you watched it to the end. He says to cut subsidies and use markets. That sounds like a prescription to me. Simply because it is not a vision for a new government program does not mean it is not an alternative. The alternative is no government program.
ashleyjohnston 1 month ago
10 people think governments know what's best for "us", even when the government makes
terrible investments.
jaybreak 1 month ago 2
@jaybreak both parties are war parties and both parties ae debt parties . only Ron Paul and a few others talk diferently
throwerofturds 1 month ago in playlist Economics Playlist 6
@throwerofturds Agreed!
jaybreak 1 month ago
LOL howtheworldworks already did a critique on this quite a while ago
wobinga7 1 month ago
RON PAUL 2012
hmt741 1 month ago
@hmt741 This guy 2012
Judahmangi 1 month ago
Thumbs up Way Way Up for this vid.
ronwandell 1 month ago in playlist Economics Playlist
All subsidizes, military or otherwise, must stop! What we need is a complete separation of, like the separation of church and state, political power (coercion) and private economic life!
capitalistsamurai 1 month ago in playlist Economics Playlist
There is one thing that surprised me a little. He portrayed lobbyists negatively while at the same time promoting free markets without regulations. Lobbyists use their influence to rig the game in their favor. So do you guys honestly think that when all regulations are gone suddenly everybody is nice and doesn't use his influence, power and wealth to get ahead anymore while keeping everybody else down? Of course they will. Even more so because now there is nothing the rabble can do about it.
StoryOfAPanic 1 month ago
@StoryOfAPanic There is a big difference that you need to consider. While there will never be a world without corruption, in a free market, corrupt people can not utilize the violence of the state to gain advantage and harm others. In addition, the state created fiction that is a corporation would not shield individuals from being punished for their transgressions (like it currently does).
boxant 1 month ago
@boxant All I am getting from you is that you don't like the word "government". In an unregulated market such people would simply make deals with each other like they are currently making deals with corrupt politicians. Now the public in principle still has all the power to keep them in check. But once this power is gone...well then everybody who isn't part of the fortunate upper classes is majorly fucked.
StoryOfAPanic 1 month ago
@StoryOfAPanic There's plenty of regulation in a free market. It's not just principle. It's principle based on observation. Free market principle is the only thing that explain why anything works. If what you said was true nothing would work and we would be a severely impoverished country, or nonexistent. All your eco. gibberish is simply the twist shadow of free market principle. You ironically bash monopolies while at same time promoting the biggest monopoly ever, government.
Bleakfacts 1 month ago
@Bleakfacts "plenty of regulation in a free market." Please name them and explain how they prevent the things I mentioned. "nothing would work". I never claimed that. I simply said that things like exploitation, pollution, monopolies, a growing gap between rich and poor, planned obsolescence or unsafe products aren't prevented in a market without any regulations. And yes the government has a monopoly of power as it should have since it is supposed to represent the will of the people.
StoryOfAPanic 1 month ago
@StoryOfAPanic First off you have to understand problems are only fixed by those who take the initiative to do so, and in a free society people can recognize such people and give or withdraw from them their support whether at Any Time through donations or purchasing goods. There's no greater regulation then this, and if it did not work there would be no society . Government forces true reformers to go through a mass of bureaucracy on anything it monopolizes creating the problem..
Bleakfacts 1 month ago
@Bleakfacts And I almost forgot: Since you talked about observation: Have a look at England during the industrialization. Are you going to claim now that the working classes were only exploited because of government regulations?
StoryOfAPanic 1 month ago