when i hear this..i think of the documentary i heard about germans fucked over jews who were their pharmacists and stood by while they got killed. History repeats itself, and there is going to be a time when this isn't funny anymore.
And that's why if you want good quality tools nowadays you gotta buy Snapon, which costs an arm and a leg, or some shit made in china that's just gonna fucking break on ya. Fuck the hell outta me.
@YoungBrave2006 There is like one Sears down here that I can buy quality handtools at that I don't have to mortgage my fucking house to buy, and it is not even in the capital city of my country. How fucked up is that?
For years I told my friends and family not to buy at big corporate stores. That they should give their money to the shop owners in their neighborhood. I said those corporations are trying to eliminate little business. I was constantly laughed at and called a "conspiracy nut". The herd mentality at work.
A new bookstore just opened in my neighborhood. The owner and I are on first name terms, and he hosts a game night which is excellent fun. To think you used to be able to have a relationship with more businessmen and women, it does make one nostalgic.
why is Bleached Shrek in the middle of an artistic airbushed photo depiction of Opus+Anthony. How dare Jim Norton show his pancaked face on Louis CK time-stick to RedEye w/ demented Bill Schulz. Demand more people.
These are all reasons for government regulation. Consider factory farming. We are torturing animals to save some money. It's too easy to blame the consumer for that. Government needs to step in and punish-tax the fuck out of harmful exploitation. That would make the small business competitive again.
Government regulation is what is needed. But tell that to an average American and they'll go apeshit. HURRTEHEVILSOSHALISMRONPAUL2012DURR
I see Louis' point, but he's already gone back on it. When he released that stand-up special online for five bucks, he made a lot of money (and to be fair, he certainly spread it around) but nobody at any brick and mortar store had the opportunity to stock it on a shelf, mark it up, and make a profit.
It's sad how Louis CK is expressing a genuine point, and they just laugh at him. The man might make jokes, but there's an underlying truth that we should listen to.
We have to remember that the movement to create technology to make businesses efficient was in order to make life easier for the American worker... not to make it harder. But when profit overrides the welfare of it's people, you create technology to replace people.
Louis only gets one thing wrong: the human being from the local family often gave even worst service in his shitty dirty store than the faceless walmart.
An advantage to some dirty or bad small businesses, however, is that you can complain and usually get something done, since they're generally concerned with keeping customers more than a corporate giant.
Louie is ABSOLUTELY right. I've seen it with my own eyes. Walmart comes in, shuts down an entire town then when they've made all the money they can off a town they literally close down over night. pack up the trucks with their cheap merchandise and leave the empty building and move to the next town. think about it.
I agree with Louis. If corporations now run the world, not governments, then you vote everyday by deciding who to give your money to. Vote with your feet, people!
I love Louis, but he's dead wrong on this one and not seeing the whole picture. People don't just care about saving a little money but also time. Instead of running to the mom and pop grocery store, crafts store, hardware store, etc, they can go to one big box store and get all of that stuff in one trip for cheaper. People's lives are busier and more hectic. Also, those big box stores have to hire the neighbors in the community and create decent jobs for young people or part-time retired people.
@edizzidydawg But you're not seeing the big picture. Companies like Walmart dictate the price from the manufactures because they have driven out all the competition. They do less for the local economy than mom and pop shops, and customer service goes out the window as well. it's a messed up cycle. People are more busy to keep up with the cost of living and inflation. Companies like Walmart make huge profits but don't pass it down to their workers. Walmart = no benefits, and low wages.
@edizzidydawg "People's lives are busier and more hectic."
why do you think that is? people are working longer hours for less money because thats the way the 1% want it. families used to live on 1 income but now they are barely getting by when both parents are working. people used to work 9-5 and now its 9-6. where will it end?
@edizzidydawg And they pay them shit, they don't give them a pension, they don't give them health care, they don't teach them any skills so if you get laid off from walmart 5 years after working there and making your way up to supervisor, the best you can hope for your next job is cashier at some grocery store or drugstore, if there are even some left in your town. Otherwise, you have to fucking move. To another town. In some cases to another fucking state.
@YoungBrave2006 Walmart actually owns quite a few stores down here. I don't shop there because all the produce and meat is shit. But if they ever try the same shit they do in the US, Imma stop that shit real quick. I know just how to fucking do it, and I'm all out of bubble gum, all out asses to kick, and all out of fucks to give.
@mmtna I don't think so. Internet really helped the spread of independent films, music and art. It isn't technology, its just our morality hasn't caught up with our increasing technology. Think about it... You are using technology typing on your technological computer to write a comment about how technology destroys everything while using technological outlets to view movies, TV and music. :D
@FloydIV 99% of all movies, tv shows and music are fucking shit these days. Do you know why? Technology made it so. Yes I know I use technology but if the internet SHUT down tomorrow I would be happy. I wouldn't give a fuck. It would be good for human productivity and creativity.
@mmtna lol Don't be such a fool. There was always easy cash in media, then years later it goes through a bullshit filter. The internet isn't a recent phenomenon that shitty popular media just gets popular. Look at some of the media today, its ridiculously good. Your just bitter because your looking back on the past which most likely notes the best shows, movies and music of its era since it went through the bullshit filter. That or your just a hipster :D
@jimmy098 How so? Why can't the internet just be the reflection of humanity? Your just more exposed to what more humans really are when they get a chance to be anonymous.
@FloydIV Trust me I'm no fucking Hipster. You talk about how ridiculously good media to day is. How many people have successfully used it to do something PRODUCTIVE or CREATIVE????
@mmtna I disagree. Advancements of digital technology and the advent of the Internet have merely coincided with a temporary cultural decline. Certainly, misuse of contemporary technology has exacerbated this decline, but in a sound society, its effect will likely be opposite.
Personally, I feel that technology needs be exploited to promote sound, intelligent alternatives to so much moronic, degenerate content defecated by mass media outlets.
I wanna hear louis ck, but I cannot stand the sound of all the rest of them faking laughter. The way they sound when they "laugh" is the way I felt the time I got lightly poisoned by expired dairy products.
Just because the bigger stores are more convenient doesn't make them the right option. It goes beyond just the consumerism thing - taking the easy selfish route is becoming the American way and it's fucking the whole culture and society up. If people don't stick together and help one another out just because we don't have to, then people will become alienated, selfish and unfulfilled. Look beyond the immediate reward of what you're doing. Selfishness may not affect you now, but it'll catch up.
@Supaduck0 hopefully with time the internet might change things a bit like they talk about later. e.g. people can write their own books and publish them through the internet, especially with kindle etc. although saying that music hasnt really taken off like that although you wouldnt need all the recording gear, only a keyboard so you never know...
@BlunderCats music has totally taken off like that. There's so many artists now who don't get airplay or recognition but are developing underground followings.
Sorry Louis , but I've never placed any value on my old trips to blockbuster.
I'm never gotten laid off of them either.
The reason these big corporations beat out the little guys is because they are more efficient, plain and simple.
You may think people have an obligation to care about their community businesses, but I don't think it's fair to try to say your values are the only correct ones.
@FromMuToYou yeah well most people think their values are the only correct ones thats why they keep them their whole lives. plus he is being paid to express his views so drink some tea and calm down
@FromMuToYou maybe so but if you can live and be aware of other values youre implicitly saying that yours are better by not choosing to live by the others. does that make sense? i cant see how knowing about better values but consciously choosing not to live by them is any better
@TheHouseOffice It's not even the old days, that is the difference. We are now working on, "Back in my day, 5 years ago" and that is the problem and young folks today don't notice it because a lot of you were born into it. They can't notice you are the frog in the boiling pot, to them it just seems nice and warm.
I prefer the places that sell the cheapest shit. I have no money and live on student loans, I can't afford useless fucking sentiments like buying goods in community stores so my neighboors feel good.
@2MinutesToMidnightt well go and get a shitty job at one of these low paying no selfrespect money making asshole corporate shareholding zombie stores. and tell how good it feels to be part of soul less community
@2MinutesToMidnightt yeah but its not really useless sentiments its livlihoods and its not just making them feel good its giving them a business as opposed to a job
so what you guys are saying is i should mix mud and water and stand near a starbucks and sell the shit for a dime and i will be Bill Gates in 5 years?
furthermore, i abhore urban sprawl & mcmansions. i live in the city. hydro fracking is a terrible idea. our dependance on fossil fuels is depressing. i have no problem with technology & innovation. we put man on the moon with a slide rule. i do have an issue with the way technology is implimented & what it is turning our society into. perhaps listen to what louis has to say & think critically about what it means to be human instead of a mindless consumer. what does it mean to be human?
@frantic0blivion19 Yet clearly you are old enough to not fully remember your childhood and you clearly have no children of your own that you care about. Your ideas of morality are based on obsolete principles. You claim to have no responsibility for the problems the world faces yet you know that every person who owns a car, has no care for renewable energy and has been a part of the economy that is now failing has a certain part in the disasters we face.
Love the comedy, but Louies argument is over the symptom, not the problem....which is common, as everybody has a vald idea in how to deal with a symptom. What is the problem? It's like, lets all switch over to a math where 2 + 3 = 4, and then come up ways to compensate for it's obvious error. There will be a lot of good ideas on how to somehow make that new math kinda, sorta work.....until it builds so big, that it starts to fail, no matter the band-aids. That is what money is.
age of convenience, era of immediate gratification. we're not better as a species for it. think about the attitude you embody when you decide to patronize wal-mart, starbucks, etc. I WANT IT NOW! (and as louis notes, all our amazing technology is completely wasted on the shittiest generation ever)
@frantic0blivion19 The reason we are the shittiest generation is because assholes like you ruin our lives before we start them. We have to deal with the problems you leave behind and that is some huge pressure on us, asshole. Stress at the age of 7 tends to mess people up.
@outlander180 a rather confounding statment seeing as you don't know how old i am. furthermore, how is my choice of personal reponsibily/accountablily based on what i know to be morally correct rather than being swept up with the tide of rampant consummerism affecting your ability to prosper? what problems am i 'leaving behind' exactly? where is that stress coming from? does it perhaps have something to do with the backwards way your generation operates through smartphones rather than in person?
@frantic0blivion19 From your statement I would guess you to be in a position of monetary superiority to others and you clearly have never been told as a child that you will never afford a house because the economy cannot support that. You have not been told that your generation has to fix up the pollution and other basic problems we face. You seem to forget that your generation has started this consumerism and assume that everybody from my generation owns a blackberry and only understands text.
@frantic0blivion19 And you call modern technology backwards, a phrase which clearly shows your lack of computer knowledge. Why should we make an effort to walk out to meet our friends when we can talk to them online, especially since now your generation is too lazy to take us to meet them. Your movement and migration into suburbia separate us and we are left with no choice but to talk online. You take no notice of the effects your generation have had on us.
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louis ck is an idiot, obviously we all prefer netflix to personal family service. let them die, if all they know how to do is run a store then they're useless to society.
Meh, the thing about this is that they don't take the argument seriously because it's supposed to be a comedic show. They're arguing a very old and dead and sealed argument... the "for capitalism" guy just doesn't take his point far enough to win the argument because he wants ot keep the show funny and not offend anyone.
Not every town has nice little shops. In fact most of them are arseholes that open and close when they feel like it and change their prices depending on how naive they think the respective customer is.
I'll take faceless, 24hr, well priced, convince and growth any day.
I think Louis is wrong here. I don't want to "support local business" that isn't efficient and convenient. I'd much rather evolve the business world to have things that work better. I'm not interested in giving you money just for being local. I won't buy American if another country does it better and cheaper; that's actually bad for America's economy. If I only buy stuff made in my local area, I end up with crappy, overpriced goods. Time to move on.
@TheRichardHinckley I love when apathetic narcissists look to justify themselves by science and economics, because you don't know how it works. First off, some economics basics. Efficiency, productivity, and technological innovation do not spring from the cheapest workforces. Plonking down a factory in bangladesh doesn't mean better handtowels, it means cheaper handtowels. There is nearly no correlation between locality and quality in a world of globalized knowledge.
@niclasjt Actually, the "basic economics" principle is called "Comparative Advantage" and you can look it up easily, and you'll find it supports my point about efficient economies. With regard to the quality of products (towels in your example), the foreign-made towels could be better or worse, but if people are buying them, then they must be good enough. Otherwise, people would go "these towels are overpriced" and stop buying them in favor of higher-quality products.
@TheRichardHinckley Comparative advantage is a 19th century oversimplification, and it doesn't speak to quality, nor, in its modern application, does it have anything to do with efficiency. The American economy was, and is, capable of tremendous production compared to many of the countries that we outsource to. Cost of production was the only deciding factor - sacrificing some livelihoods for the enlargement of others.
@niclasjt "19th century" doesn't make something invalid or wrong. Comparative advantage (you can read about it on Wikipedia) is a perfectly valid part of economic theory and does relate to the efficiency of production. "Quality" of products has nothing to do with this concept, it's entirely irrelevant, and a higher-cost-of-production location doesn't always make a better product. If I stop being able to sell my labor cheaply enough to make a living, I'll change careers or I'll starve.
@TheRichardHinckley I've got Ricardo covered, thanks. And you've co-opted my argument. You introduced comparative advantage, and I'm telling you why that principle does not make the products inherently "better," nor does investment in one's community by paying a higher price for local goods lead to inefficiencies in a world economy of globalized production-knowledge. You're confusing your terms. Also, the majority of our + net jobs are been part-time positions, so good luck.
@niclasjt Yeah, you totally have it covered. "Better" is a meaningless term here. You can buy high-end or low-end products from the same country or even the same company. Buying "local" has no impact on quality. Comparative advantage, however, dictates that it's more efficient to buy goods and services from the places that provide them at a reduced opportunity cost. I.e. if Canada sells good-enough XYZ products cheaper than America, I'm buying Canadian because it's the smart move.
@TheRichardHinckley And here's where it should get personal, that by supporting local business, it helps provide the people around you with the decent jobs they need to afford whatever skills, services, or intellectual property you;re pushing. You cover your own ass. Driving down cost, production, puts yourself one step closer to redundancy vis-a-vis some foreign narcissist. You're just gambling it won't happen to you, because you have meat where the imagination should be.
@niclasjt No, I'm not simply "gambling" that it won't happen to me. I make sure that my job doesn't get outsourced overseas by working hard to do it better and cheaper than it would be to hire someone from another country. It's a constant struggle to be the best and earn your keep, it's the red queen's race cradle to grave, but that's evolution and that's how the world works. If you want to be on the team, you have to pull your weight, end of story.
@TheRichardHinckley Ricardian econ aside, you're also working with a misaplication of evolution. Evolution isn't simply a "strongest survives" system of growth, as some growth is maladaptive. It's whatever works best with its environment. The current series of economic crises should suggest that these kinds of misapplications are increasingly destabilising world systems. It's selfish me-first douchery, and it'll hit you too, when you can't sell yourself cheap enough.
@DevnMC .. If so, he couldn't help that. It's not his fault if he wasn't born in Boston, and it would be to his credit that he corrected the problem, developing his character and comedic insight in the Athens Of America, Cradle Of Liberty, and Hub Of The Universe.
This is how Comedy and Nations are improved. You can look it up.
@DevnMC ..Also a Correction : Louis CK was born in Washington D.C, of admittedly mixed parentage (for which he wasn't responsible). He moved to Boston at age 7 ... apparently the 'age of reason'.
Louie complains about capitalism, but it's made him fucking rich. Corporations are assholes, yes. But until someone can improve the system it's all we got
@captainbatguano well, his most recent special was all private enterprise, and it made him more money than his TV show. Unfiltered free market commerce, with no big business attachment. That's the future...unless SOPA passes...
@BarefootArizona If there weren't Mom and Pop shops, then we will be overcome by McDonalds and Walmart. My grandparents had to shut down their business, because of Walmart moving in. They survived on it VERY WELL, for 15 years. People like you, are why Corporations are getting huge, and closing family owned business', causing them to lose their jobs, and their employees job. No one WANTS to work at Walmart, it's because they shut down the little stores.
@BarefootArizona All those people who lost their jobs at the video stores should just find a red box to crawl into huh?
Things don't just come from nothing. Convenience is great, but it destroys jobs. Inconvenience is what creates jobs. Is something inconvenient? Pay some fucker to do it for you. Know what that is? A fucking job. The fact is: We need little shitty jobs. Not everyone can be a doctor. When a computer takes your job, you'll sing a different tune.
@CrabJock No I won't. I'll sing the same tune I always sing. The tune about making due with what I have and moving on. We live in a different time. Back in the 80's, it was a different time. I miss the 80's too but it's not like that. I prefer convenience. I'm just an internet guy, otherwise I go to Goodwill and craigslist. Peace : )
@BarefootArizona "Too much of a good thing is a bad thing" You're only looking at the upside without realizing what it does to society.
Its simple logic really. Store goes online, worker gets fired, can't find another job because they're all taken or a low demand for them (we can't all be doctors), worker goes broke so he can't afford those those things online, boom.
Without money getting pumped into these businesses, things will become little less than convenient.
@CrabJock I understand your point, but I think people can find work. I've seen a lot of people go from making 8-12 dollars an hour doing labor, and now they own their own company doing the same thing. I just want the opportunity to succeed. I want the Government to stay away as much as possible.
It's not the consumers or Wal-Mart's fault... we used to have anti trust laws. Wal Mart couldn't exist without really big concessions from city and local government to get them in there cheaply ---concessions not available to average businesses without "connections." So now taxpayers have to pay billions extra to provide health care for their employees so we can save pennies at their stores. It's a sucky deal in the long run.
Well shit. If we're just going to have faith in people to put the whole before themselves then why not just have socialism? (I'm not actually suggesting that)
you know why lot of jews are rantting about Capitalism for at least 200 years? because they suck on surviving in gentiles environment and society, that's why they always gang-up and lobying with their narcistic dark jokes bullshits thingy..... look where the first critique of capitalism ever made, from jew called marx... not even french were complaining about monarchism or colonialism either after Revolution...
when i hear this..i think of the documentary i heard about germans fucked over jews who were their pharmacists and stood by while they got killed. History repeats itself, and there is going to be a time when this isn't funny anymore.
TheKhaya90 22 hours ago
Prepping us for white mexicans and organic communities.....louis ck...
theforestero 1 day ago
I co-signed what C.K. Is saying here. Fu*k walmart and other corporation for controling this nation.
UltraDOG17 1 day ago
And that's why if you want good quality tools nowadays you gotta buy Snapon, which costs an arm and a leg, or some shit made in china that's just gonna fucking break on ya. Fuck the hell outta me.
YoungBrave2006 2 days ago
@YoungBrave2006 There is like one Sears down here that I can buy quality handtools at that I don't have to mortgage my fucking house to buy, and it is not even in the capital city of my country. How fucked up is that?
YoungBrave2006 2 days ago
For years I told my friends and family not to buy at big corporate stores. That they should give their money to the shop owners in their neighborhood. I said those corporations are trying to eliminate little business. I was constantly laughed at and called a "conspiracy nut". The herd mentality at work.
mindstormsabrewin 3 days ago
Love Louis CK, but these other d-bags, I could do without.
cpluhar1 3 days ago
i dont shop at walmart.i shop at goodwills and yardsales and ive saved THOUSANDS that way.fuck walmart
reachforacreech 3 days ago
people just dont give a fuck enough to even save themselves .so were fucked, period.
reachforacreech 3 days ago
Idk they say that theres gonna be no coffee stores? Bullshit, they forget about supply and demand?
kellerdood32 5 days ago
governments ARE corporations
impalapez 5 days ago
A new bookstore just opened in my neighborhood. The owner and I are on first name terms, and he hosts a game night which is excellent fun. To think you used to be able to have a relationship with more businessmen and women, it does make one nostalgic.
RandomTask3000 1 week ago 2
@RandomTask3000 That's wicked you dont get that very often at all these days. Human interaction and decency is becoming a rare thing.
Edd731 6 days ago
i hate when it is youtube but there is no video
tripledoublee 1 week ago
@tripledoublee it's radio
winston2015 3 days ago
Occupy my nutsack
rigogurt 1 week ago
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wes1087 1 week ago
Video headquarters in Keene NH is still going strong, They put BlockBusters out of biz!! XD
sleestalk 1 week ago
why is Bleached Shrek in the middle of an artistic airbushed photo depiction of Opus+Anthony. How dare Jim Norton show his pancaked face on Louis CK time-stick to RedEye w/ demented Bill Schulz. Demand more people.
delslagle 1 week ago
there's no such thing as progress, only change
jm0281 1 week ago
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wes1087 1 week ago
These are all reasons for government regulation. Consider factory farming. We are torturing animals to save some money. It's too easy to blame the consumer for that. Government needs to step in and punish-tax the fuck out of harmful exploitation. That would make the small business competitive again.
Government regulation is what is needed. But tell that to an average American and they'll go apeshit. HURRTEHEVILSOSHALISMRONPAUL2012DURR
Pastor9764 1 week ago
Support the local stores, restaurants, artists etc.
mmtna 2 weeks ago
I see Louis' point, but he's already gone back on it. When he released that stand-up special online for five bucks, he made a lot of money (and to be fair, he certainly spread it around) but nobody at any brick and mortar store had the opportunity to stock it on a shelf, mark it up, and make a profit.
roebuckmckinney 2 weeks ago
It's sad how Louis CK is expressing a genuine point, and they just laugh at him. The man might make jokes, but there's an underlying truth that we should listen to.
KatSWG 2 weeks ago
We have to remember that the movement to create technology to make businesses efficient was in order to make life easier for the American worker... not to make it harder. But when profit overrides the welfare of it's people, you create technology to replace people.
lordbeaker 2 weeks ago
8:35 "The second place product always wins by being more vicious."
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sAlainVideos 2 weeks ago
Louis only gets one thing wrong: the human being from the local family often gave even worst service in his shitty dirty store than the faceless walmart.
xTheOxx 3 weeks ago
@xTheOxx That's a crock of shit and you know it. Wal-Mart has never given me anything resembling service, and my local grocery is AMAZING.
TheTerrorUforgot 2 weeks ago
@TheTerrorUforgot
I wrote "often", not "always" or "invariably" or anything like that. I'm going by my experience in small towns.
xTheOxx 2 weeks ago
@xTheOxx Ah... I see. Sorry, then.
An advantage to some dirty or bad small businesses, however, is that you can complain and usually get something done, since they're generally concerned with keeping customers more than a corporate giant.
TheTerrorUforgot 2 weeks ago
Louie is ABSOLUTELY right. I've seen it with my own eyes. Walmart comes in, shuts down an entire town then when they've made all the money they can off a town they literally close down over night. pack up the trucks with their cheap merchandise and leave the empty building and move to the next town. think about it.
cmptrwhz31 3 weeks ago
I agree with Louis. If corporations now run the world, not governments, then you vote everyday by deciding who to give your money to. Vote with your feet, people!
antichris78 3 weeks ago 18
@antichris78 Yeah, but then they will get bailed out and get our money anyway ;)
Anyhoot. I'm with you there.
lordbeaker 2 weeks ago
@antichris78 Wake up Sheeple!
UniAKJudo 2 weeks ago
@antichris78 Yeah, you've got it, but it's cooperation between government and corporations
that has put us all in this condition.
pretorious700 1 week ago in playlist Louis CK and capitalism
@antichris78 What do you mean, going to Mexico?
taubstumm 3 days ago
I love Louis, but he's dead wrong on this one and not seeing the whole picture. People don't just care about saving a little money but also time. Instead of running to the mom and pop grocery store, crafts store, hardware store, etc, they can go to one big box store and get all of that stuff in one trip for cheaper. People's lives are busier and more hectic. Also, those big box stores have to hire the neighbors in the community and create decent jobs for young people or part-time retired people.
edizzidydawg 3 weeks ago
@edizzidydawg But you're not seeing the big picture. Companies like Walmart dictate the price from the manufactures because they have driven out all the competition. They do less for the local economy than mom and pop shops, and customer service goes out the window as well. it's a messed up cycle. People are more busy to keep up with the cost of living and inflation. Companies like Walmart make huge profits but don't pass it down to their workers. Walmart = no benefits, and low wages.
AiruhnG 3 weeks ago
@AiruhnG small business is still the major of business in this country. Small businesses employ for than the big corporations as a whole
AiruhnG 3 weeks ago
@AiruhnG I agree..for now...but big corporations and multinationals are doing everything in their power to change that.
davehutchinson67 2 weeks ago
@edizzidydawg "People's lives are busier and more hectic."
why do you think that is? people are working longer hours for less money because thats the way the 1% want it. families used to live on 1 income but now they are barely getting by when both parents are working. people used to work 9-5 and now its 9-6. where will it end?
breton1 2 weeks ago
@edizzidydawg And they pay them shit, they don't give them a pension, they don't give them health care, they don't teach them any skills so if you get laid off from walmart 5 years after working there and making your way up to supervisor, the best you can hope for your next job is cashier at some grocery store or drugstore, if there are even some left in your town. Otherwise, you have to fucking move. To another town. In some cases to another fucking state.
YoungBrave2006 2 days ago
@YoungBrave2006 Walmart actually owns quite a few stores down here. I don't shop there because all the produce and meat is shit. But if they ever try the same shit they do in the US, Imma stop that shit real quick. I know just how to fucking do it, and I'm all out of bubble gum, all out asses to kick, and all out of fucks to give.
Walmart can go eat a dick.
YoungBrave2006 2 days ago
technology has ruined so many things including movies, tv, music, art, etc.
mmtna 3 weeks ago
@mmtna I don't think so. Internet really helped the spread of independent films, music and art. It isn't technology, its just our morality hasn't caught up with our increasing technology. Think about it... You are using technology typing on your technological computer to write a comment about how technology destroys everything while using technological outlets to view movies, TV and music. :D
FloydIV 1 week ago
@FloydIV 99% of all movies, tv shows and music are fucking shit these days. Do you know why? Technology made it so. Yes I know I use technology but if the internet SHUT down tomorrow I would be happy. I wouldn't give a fuck. It would be good for human productivity and creativity.
mmtna 1 week ago
@mmtna lol Don't be such a fool. There was always easy cash in media, then years later it goes through a bullshit filter. The internet isn't a recent phenomenon that shitty popular media just gets popular. Look at some of the media today, its ridiculously good. Your just bitter because your looking back on the past which most likely notes the best shows, movies and music of its era since it went through the bullshit filter. That or your just a hipster :D
FloydIV 1 week ago
@FloydIV The internet is the bane of humanity.
jimmy098 1 week ago
@jimmy098 How so? Why can't the internet just be the reflection of humanity? Your just more exposed to what more humans really are when they get a chance to be anonymous.
FloydIV 1 week ago
@FloydIV Trust me I'm no fucking Hipster. You talk about how ridiculously good media to day is. How many people have successfully used it to do something PRODUCTIVE or CREATIVE????
mmtna 1 week ago
@mmtna I disagree. Advancements of digital technology and the advent of the Internet have merely coincided with a temporary cultural decline. Certainly, misuse of contemporary technology has exacerbated this decline, but in a sound society, its effect will likely be opposite.
Personally, I feel that technology needs be exploited to promote sound, intelligent alternatives to so much moronic, degenerate content defecated by mass media outlets.
rqbuchanan 1 week ago
damn its true there are no more video stores and bookstores in my city
mmtna 3 weeks ago
we have to start looking out for each other as human beings
mmtna 3 weeks ago 22
@mmtna
I agree!
pizzazzammer 2 weeks ago
Who fucking cares about your neighbours. Your neighbours need to go do something else.
Esoparagon 4 weeks ago
If we haven't learned by now...what matters is employment. Mom & pop stores kept more of the population employed than large corporations do.
ChipArgyle 4 weeks ago 3
Why is it that comedians seem like the only people that make holistic social commentary?
JimmyeDallas 4 weeks ago 5
Louis is funny because he's insightful.
pretorious700 1 month ago
So much off-rail butthurt.
GreenGearMood 1 month ago
very true..
qwezzie 1 month ago
not gonna lie, only clicked on this vid cause i thought the thumbnail was him smokin :)
churup123 1 month ago
I wanna hear louis ck, but I cannot stand the sound of all the rest of them faking laughter. The way they sound when they "laugh" is the way I felt the time I got lightly poisoned by expired dairy products.
existenceisrelative 1 month ago
Just because the bigger stores are more convenient doesn't make them the right option. It goes beyond just the consumerism thing - taking the easy selfish route is becoming the American way and it's fucking the whole culture and society up. If people don't stick together and help one another out just because we don't have to, then people will become alienated, selfish and unfulfilled. Look beyond the immediate reward of what you're doing. Selfishness may not affect you now, but it'll catch up.
Supaduck0 1 month ago
@Supaduck0 hopefully with time the internet might change things a bit like they talk about later. e.g. people can write their own books and publish them through the internet, especially with kindle etc. although saying that music hasnt really taken off like that although you wouldnt need all the recording gear, only a keyboard so you never know...
BlunderCats 1 month ago
@BlunderCats music has totally taken off like that. There's so many artists now who don't get airplay or recognition but are developing underground followings.
BurenVanMartin 1 month ago
@BurenVanMartin well thats sort of what i mean, its still underground rather than getting widespread recognition
BlunderCats 1 month ago
Opie, Anthony and the other guy... terrible.
FreeMeFromG 1 month ago
Sorry Louis , but I've never placed any value on my old trips to blockbuster.
I'm never gotten laid off of them either.
The reason these big corporations beat out the little guys is because they are more efficient, plain and simple.
You may think people have an obligation to care about their community businesses, but I don't think it's fair to try to say your values are the only correct ones.
FromMuToYou 1 month ago
@FromMuToYou Nope... They beat the little guy based on their size and capital. How do you think they can have 40 copies of the newest movie.
You don't care, that is OK, at least you admit you don't care.
FreeMeFromG 1 month ago
@FreeMeFromG
I'd be surprised if you even know what the law of diminishing returns is with a comment like that.
FromMuToYou 1 month ago
@FromMuToYou yeah well most people think their values are the only correct ones thats why they keep them their whole lives. plus he is being paid to express his views so drink some tea and calm down
BlunderCats 1 month ago
@BlunderCats
"most people think their values are the only correct ones"
Most ignorant idiots.
FromMuToYou 1 month ago
@FromMuToYou maybe so but if you can live and be aware of other values youre implicitly saying that yours are better by not choosing to live by the others. does that make sense? i cant see how knowing about better values but consciously choosing not to live by them is any better
BlunderCats 1 month ago
Why would you.. Digital Delivery. Because, some of us like movies, and digital streaming kills quality for convince. It's the same with iTunes.
Frallon 1 month ago
Black's Books kept coming to mind
retared88 1 month ago
louis is really an idealist. im sorry but the local places that survive and kill t he competition just work harder
UpalKashey 1 month ago
@UpalKashey nah
eviltube1111 1 month ago
Louis CK is totally a grandfather. lol.
"Back in the old days..."
TheHouseOffice 1 month ago 2
@TheHouseOffice It's not even the old days, that is the difference. We are now working on, "Back in my day, 5 years ago" and that is the problem and young folks today don't notice it because a lot of you were born into it. They can't notice you are the frog in the boiling pot, to them it just seems nice and warm.
FreeMeFromG 1 month ago
Louis CK for Treasury Secretary
MrMaddhater 1 month ago
zero point zero.
wearedeadalready 1 month ago
Hmm....
Blankname101 1 month ago
I prefer the places that sell the cheapest shit. I have no money and live on student loans, I can't afford useless fucking sentiments like buying goods in community stores so my neighboors feel good.
2MinutesToMidnightt 1 month ago
@2MinutesToMidnightt well go and get a shitty job at one of these low paying no selfrespect money making asshole corporate shareholding zombie stores. and tell how good it feels to be part of soul less community
greatkeyboardwarrior 1 month ago
@2MinutesToMidnightt yeah but its not really useless sentiments its livlihoods and its not just making them feel good its giving them a business as opposed to a job
BlunderCats 1 month ago
so what you guys are saying is i should mix mud and water and stand near a starbucks and sell the shit for a dime and i will be Bill Gates in 5 years?
pegasus2077 1 month ago
furthermore, i abhore urban sprawl & mcmansions. i live in the city. hydro fracking is a terrible idea. our dependance on fossil fuels is depressing. i have no problem with technology & innovation. we put man on the moon with a slide rule. i do have an issue with the way technology is implimented & what it is turning our society into. perhaps listen to what louis has to say & think critically about what it means to be human instead of a mindless consumer. what does it mean to be human?
frantic0blivion19 1 month ago
i'm 27, lower middle class & you're an entitled whining cunt
frantic0blivion19 1 month ago
@frantic0blivion19 Yet clearly you are old enough to not fully remember your childhood and you clearly have no children of your own that you care about. Your ideas of morality are based on obsolete principles. You claim to have no responsibility for the problems the world faces yet you know that every person who owns a car, has no care for renewable energy and has been a part of the economy that is now failing has a certain part in the disasters we face.
outlander180 1 month ago
Love the comedy, but Louies argument is over the symptom, not the problem....which is common, as everybody has a vald idea in how to deal with a symptom. What is the problem? It's like, lets all switch over to a math where 2 + 3 = 4, and then come up ways to compensate for it's obvious error. There will be a lot of good ideas on how to somehow make that new math kinda, sorta work.....until it builds so big, that it starts to fail, no matter the band-aids. That is what money is.
dudebro313 1 month ago
"2nd place product always wins by being more vicious." Microsoft.
sotai100 1 month ago
@sotai100 Who is now being attacked by the second place products, apple.
outlander180 1 month ago
@outlander180 2nd attacking 3rd place which still has dominance, then.
sotai100 1 month ago
age of convenience, era of immediate gratification. we're not better as a species for it. think about the attitude you embody when you decide to patronize wal-mart, starbucks, etc. I WANT IT NOW! (and as louis notes, all our amazing technology is completely wasted on the shittiest generation ever)
frantic0blivion19 1 month ago
@frantic0blivion19 The reason we are the shittiest generation is because assholes like you ruin our lives before we start them. We have to deal with the problems you leave behind and that is some huge pressure on us, asshole. Stress at the age of 7 tends to mess people up.
outlander180 1 month ago
@outlander180 a rather confounding statment seeing as you don't know how old i am. furthermore, how is my choice of personal reponsibily/accountablily based on what i know to be morally correct rather than being swept up with the tide of rampant consummerism affecting your ability to prosper? what problems am i 'leaving behind' exactly? where is that stress coming from? does it perhaps have something to do with the backwards way your generation operates through smartphones rather than in person?
frantic0blivion19 1 month ago
@frantic0blivion19 From your statement I would guess you to be in a position of monetary superiority to others and you clearly have never been told as a child that you will never afford a house because the economy cannot support that. You have not been told that your generation has to fix up the pollution and other basic problems we face. You seem to forget that your generation has started this consumerism and assume that everybody from my generation owns a blackberry and only understands text.
outlander180 1 month ago
@frantic0blivion19 And you call modern technology backwards, a phrase which clearly shows your lack of computer knowledge. Why should we make an effort to walk out to meet our friends when we can talk to them online, especially since now your generation is too lazy to take us to meet them. Your movement and migration into suburbia separate us and we are left with no choice but to talk online. You take no notice of the effects your generation have had on us.
outlander180 1 month ago
@frantic0blivion19 who now is the shittiest generation ever?
outlander180 1 month ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
louis ck is an idiot, obviously we all prefer netflix to personal family service. let them die, if all they know how to do is run a store then they're useless to society.
frother 1 month ago
@frother fuck you louis is a legend
MrCeltic76 1 month ago 2
you guys have NO concept of community.. thats why you sound ignorant when you say you prefer the big chains.
WURLITZER ORGAN!!!!!lol i love this guy
auxhernandez81 1 month ago 26
Meh, the thing about this is that they don't take the argument seriously because it's supposed to be a comedic show. They're arguing a very old and dead and sealed argument... the "for capitalism" guy just doesn't take his point far enough to win the argument because he wants ot keep the show funny and not offend anyone.
cacarory 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
I much prefer the huge chains.
Not every town has nice little shops. In fact most of them are arseholes that open and close when they feel like it and change their prices depending on how naive they think the respective customer is.
I'll take faceless, 24hr, well priced, convince and growth any day.
bailer4life 2 months ago 2
I think Louis is wrong here. I don't want to "support local business" that isn't efficient and convenient. I'd much rather evolve the business world to have things that work better. I'm not interested in giving you money just for being local. I won't buy American if another country does it better and cheaper; that's actually bad for America's economy. If I only buy stuff made in my local area, I end up with crappy, overpriced goods. Time to move on.
TheRichardHinckley 2 months ago
@TheRichardHinckley I love when apathetic narcissists look to justify themselves by science and economics, because you don't know how it works. First off, some economics basics. Efficiency, productivity, and technological innovation do not spring from the cheapest workforces. Plonking down a factory in bangladesh doesn't mean better handtowels, it means cheaper handtowels. There is nearly no correlation between locality and quality in a world of globalized knowledge.
niclasjt 1 month ago
@niclasjt Actually, the "basic economics" principle is called "Comparative Advantage" and you can look it up easily, and you'll find it supports my point about efficient economies. With regard to the quality of products (towels in your example), the foreign-made towels could be better or worse, but if people are buying them, then they must be good enough. Otherwise, people would go "these towels are overpriced" and stop buying them in favor of higher-quality products.
TheRichardHinckley 1 month ago
@TheRichardHinckley Comparative advantage is a 19th century oversimplification, and it doesn't speak to quality, nor, in its modern application, does it have anything to do with efficiency. The American economy was, and is, capable of tremendous production compared to many of the countries that we outsource to. Cost of production was the only deciding factor - sacrificing some livelihoods for the enlargement of others.
niclasjt 1 month ago
@niclasjt "19th century" doesn't make something invalid or wrong. Comparative advantage (you can read about it on Wikipedia) is a perfectly valid part of economic theory and does relate to the efficiency of production. "Quality" of products has nothing to do with this concept, it's entirely irrelevant, and a higher-cost-of-production location doesn't always make a better product. If I stop being able to sell my labor cheaply enough to make a living, I'll change careers or I'll starve.
TheRichardHinckley 1 month ago
@TheRichardHinckley I've got Ricardo covered, thanks. And you've co-opted my argument. You introduced comparative advantage, and I'm telling you why that principle does not make the products inherently "better," nor does investment in one's community by paying a higher price for local goods lead to inefficiencies in a world economy of globalized production-knowledge. You're confusing your terms. Also, the majority of our + net jobs are been part-time positions, so good luck.
niclasjt 1 month ago
@niclasjt Yeah, you totally have it covered. "Better" is a meaningless term here. You can buy high-end or low-end products from the same country or even the same company. Buying "local" has no impact on quality. Comparative advantage, however, dictates that it's more efficient to buy goods and services from the places that provide them at a reduced opportunity cost. I.e. if Canada sells good-enough XYZ products cheaper than America, I'm buying Canadian because it's the smart move.
TheRichardHinckley 1 month ago
@TheRichardHinckley And here's where it should get personal, that by supporting local business, it helps provide the people around you with the decent jobs they need to afford whatever skills, services, or intellectual property you;re pushing. You cover your own ass. Driving down cost, production, puts yourself one step closer to redundancy vis-a-vis some foreign narcissist. You're just gambling it won't happen to you, because you have meat where the imagination should be.
niclasjt 1 month ago
@niclasjt No, I'm not simply "gambling" that it won't happen to me. I make sure that my job doesn't get outsourced overseas by working hard to do it better and cheaper than it would be to hire someone from another country. It's a constant struggle to be the best and earn your keep, it's the red queen's race cradle to grave, but that's evolution and that's how the world works. If you want to be on the team, you have to pull your weight, end of story.
TheRichardHinckley 1 month ago
@TheRichardHinckley Ricardian econ aside, you're also working with a misaplication of evolution. Evolution isn't simply a "strongest survives" system of growth, as some growth is maladaptive. It's whatever works best with its environment. The current series of economic crises should suggest that these kinds of misapplications are increasingly destabilising world systems. It's selfish me-first douchery, and it'll hit you too, when you can't sell yourself cheap enough.
niclasjt 1 month ago
Louis CK is a genius
IssaTai 2 months ago
Louis CK apparently doesn't get Free markets vs corporatism
LogSNES 2 months ago
Our local videostore was around long before Blockbuster came, and it's now the only game in town again.
mideonv 2 months ago 4
Amen. Louis is right.
lockwoodisafaggot 2 months ago 15
@lockwoodisafaggot Is he ever wrong?
MattCadillac 3 weeks ago
I can end this argument right now. We are what we are. If you want to make changes, change yourself and be an example.
joemoe23 2 months ago
@joemoe23 No, you can't end an argument, or a video, or all 598 comments with your piece of shit comment just because you say so, gtfo.
ButtsexSandwich 2 months ago
@ButtsexSandwich Do you have another solution that's going to be productive?
joemoe23 2 months ago
@joemoe23 Instead of trying to use cliche statements such as,"We are what we are," try death.
ButtsexSandwich 2 months ago
Stick to jokes.
sybo59 2 months ago
Sounds like Louis is talking out of his ass throughout most of this.
TurkeyProphet 2 months ago
Who was the comic that joked..."Shame on Wal Mart and their prices that people can afford. That's terrible making people save money"
Todd Barry maybe???
TrueBlueMo 2 months ago
@theciskokidd .What happened? ...you ate too much food too often!!!
TrueBlueMo 2 months ago
@theciskokidd wow.. I hope your shitting situation has since improved
iloveme1415 2 months ago
Yeah, it's too bad book stores are going out of style.
ErichoTTA 2 months ago
Louis CK ...Boston comedian.
Another example of why Boston is the 'Hub of the Universe'.
Bostonism ... the only True Faith.
ProNorden 2 months ago
@ProNorden louis was born in mexico city
DevnMC 2 months ago
@DevnMC where you're born ≠ where you're from
iloveme1415 2 months ago
@DevnMC .. If so, he couldn't help that. It's not his fault if he wasn't born in Boston, and it would be to his credit that he corrected the problem, developing his character and comedic insight in the Athens Of America, Cradle Of Liberty, and Hub Of The Universe.
This is how Comedy and Nations are improved. You can look it up.
ProNorden 2 months ago
@DevnMC ..Also a Correction : Louis CK was born in Washington D.C, of admittedly mixed parentage (for which he wasn't responsible). He moved to Boston at age 7 ... apparently the 'age of reason'.
ProNorden 2 months ago
He said on Fallon the other day that he was doing the Correspondents Dinner.
SillySantaHat 2 months ago
@SillySantaHat ...Louis CK doing the Correspondents Dinner? Outstanding !
Louis CK actually has some guts .... while that Seth Meyer last year was a complete sycophantic prostitute to Obama.
ProNorden 2 months ago
@ProNorden Agreed. Someone needs to do to Obama what Colbert did to Bush.
SillySantaHat 2 months ago
I love this guy.
mandicreveling 2 months ago
@theciskokidd Yeah the internet's done that to a LOT of things in life
haribo687 2 months ago
Louie complains about capitalism, but it's made him fucking rich. Corporations are assholes, yes. But until someone can improve the system it's all we got
captainbatguano 2 months ago
@captainbatguano well, his most recent special was all private enterprise, and it made him more money than his TV show. Unfiltered free market commerce, with no big business attachment. That's the future...unless SOPA passes...
DenOfVipers 2 months ago
@captainbatguano, @DenOfVipers ,..Don't feed the Parasite Intermediaries ... intermediary corporations, 'management', etc. go Work Co-ops.
I've never known the worker-owners of a work co-op to send their own jobs overseas ...or anybody else's.
ProNorden 2 months ago
but if we don't have coffee chains and mega bookstores, where will homeless people in cities take a shit?
iloveme1415 2 months ago 45
@iloveme1415
in SLC they take their shits under the overpasses and bridges. where there's a wall theres a shit.
alexjoeluke 2 months ago
excellent and true and right on and genius and ...
kimonui 2 months ago
Well, the Walmart has more items for cheaper, so...
stop bitching nigga
isubscribeeveryone2 2 months ago
watch my video of Louis CK
JayPivot 2 months ago
Everyone should see this video.
JackFrostSG 2 months ago
Sigh. Sad but true.
RayatoTV 2 months ago
its bill burr and dave attell
carloshernandez78 2 months ago
I love Louis CK, but he's full of shit about this. Fuck mom and pop shops. I want convenience. Find another fucking job and quit crying.
BarefootArizona 2 months ago
@BarefootArizona If there weren't Mom and Pop shops, then we will be overcome by McDonalds and Walmart. My grandparents had to shut down their business, because of Walmart moving in. They survived on it VERY WELL, for 15 years. People like you, are why Corporations are getting huge, and closing family owned business', causing them to lose their jobs, and their employees job. No one WANTS to work at Walmart, it's because they shut down the little stores.
SamBramcisco 2 months ago
@SamBramcisco I don't eat fast food anyways, so I don't care about that. I love Walmart.
BarefootArizona 2 months ago
@BarefootArizona Enjoy Walmart you bastard, you'll be working there someday, after they shut down everything else.
SamBramcisco 2 months ago
@BarefootArizona you are an idiot and an asshole.
jordanw2300 2 months ago
@BarefootArizona you are an idiot and an asshole. Wal mart is evil
jordanw2300 2 months ago
@jordanw2300 On on Walmart's cock.
BarefootArizona 2 months ago
@BarefootArizona All those people who lost their jobs at the video stores should just find a red box to crawl into huh?
Things don't just come from nothing. Convenience is great, but it destroys jobs. Inconvenience is what creates jobs. Is something inconvenient? Pay some fucker to do it for you. Know what that is? A fucking job. The fact is: We need little shitty jobs. Not everyone can be a doctor. When a computer takes your job, you'll sing a different tune.
CrabJock 2 months ago
@CrabJock No I won't. I'll sing the same tune I always sing. The tune about making due with what I have and moving on. We live in a different time. Back in the 80's, it was a different time. I miss the 80's too but it's not like that. I prefer convenience. I'm just an internet guy, otherwise I go to Goodwill and craigslist. Peace : )
BarefootArizona 2 months ago
@BarefootArizona "Too much of a good thing is a bad thing" You're only looking at the upside without realizing what it does to society.
Its simple logic really. Store goes online, worker gets fired, can't find another job because they're all taken or a low demand for them (we can't all be doctors), worker goes broke so he can't afford those those things online, boom.
Without money getting pumped into these businesses, things will become little less than convenient.
CrabJock 2 months ago
@CrabJock I understand your point, but I think people can find work. I've seen a lot of people go from making 8-12 dollars an hour doing labor, and now they own their own company doing the same thing. I just want the opportunity to succeed. I want the Government to stay away as much as possible.
BarefootArizona 2 months ago
is this where south park got the idea of something wal mart comes this way?
MyaChrisify 2 months ago
It's not the consumers or Wal-Mart's fault... we used to have anti trust laws. Wal Mart couldn't exist without really big concessions from city and local government to get them in there cheaply ---concessions not available to average businesses without "connections." So now taxpayers have to pay billions extra to provide health care for their employees so we can save pennies at their stores. It's a sucky deal in the long run.
sinistar99 3 months ago
Well shit. If we're just going to have faith in people to put the whole before themselves then why not just have socialism? (I'm not actually suggesting that)
CDCalvert 3 months ago 3
you know why lot of jews are rantting about Capitalism for at least 200 years? because they suck on surviving in gentiles environment and society, that's why they always gang-up and lobying with their narcistic dark jokes bullshits thingy..... look where the first critique of capitalism ever made, from jew called marx... not even french were complaining about monarchism or colonialism either after Revolution...
Slamdumb020 3 months ago
@Slamdumb020
TONS of spelling errors
voscerote 2 months ago