It sounds like your trying to quote the Bible but you got it wrong. 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." You see it's not money itself but the LOVE of money that is the root of all kinds of evil. Ask yourself what LOVE is; love is giving your most precious resources to someone or something. TIME and EFFORT are your most precious resources.
@chemicalsweet13 So you see if you give the vast majority of your time and energy to making money, you have very little left for your faith, your family, yourself. It is the LOVE of money that causes imbalance in your life and you feel the pain of that through stress, pressure on your marriage and relationships and social obligations etc. You have a finite amount of love, there are limitations on your ability to provide it so choose WISELY what you love. Money is a tool to get you what you need
Money is the root of all evil, buisnesses thrive on it, they will destroy the world in order to make more of it (the seven deadly sins), this is how our world will meet its demise... if we dont sort it out, That is
@Cogitatio023 another person who would what, wipe out a jungle for a bit of money, dude we got 1 planet and its gotta last us, money stops people seeing sense so to speak and as to me being an idiot, i would say im more hard hitting, obviously got you thinking if you replied to me
This is a lot of flowery words and is repeatative. Money is still the root of all evil. Though not per se but the system that uses money. XD IT is right in saying money is a tool but its existence having no real measure to measure value, nor are men honest in stating value, contribute to the ill's of money. It contributes directly to perpetuating an environment the induces crimes, and suffering.
so to speed up our progress to the inevitable future of harmony anyone who promotes capitalism should b taken out back and shot without a second thought as you would with a racist or even worse..a religious fuck. This is what keeps me going in a world scientifically proven to b without inherit value that one day these evil minds will b wiped out and we will look back and laugh and laugh that humans were once in this vile state
Your all viewing it from the wrong point. We must look at things from that of a futurist and we all agree in the future there will first off b no religion no racism and no jobs as machines wil b able to do anything a human does trillions of times more effeicent and since they will b self replecating it creates a closed loop. So we need to strive with all our might to reach this goal in which everyone is equal in every scence of the term and with no religion or money there would b world peace
my point is, things are out of balance.We are not living in harmony with nature, we are instead going for obscene profits and exploiting nature, because the corporation is beholdent to the stock holders. its not right that japan just got flooded with nuclear waste, that we had the oil gush of 2010, and that we were in a war where corporations had workers working alongside military. KBR, HALLIBURTON, BLACKWATER, should be ashamed for taking such advantage of the american taxpayer
The way I see it, Money, and the stockbrokerage system, the bankers interest, and oil have hyperinflated human society and human population. With new farming technolgies, we can stave off pests via pesticide to feed more people, but at the same time polluting the air and soil as well as diminishing the quality of the food. An organic banana cost twice as much as a sprayed banana. This is true not because of how trendy organic food is, the price is reflective of how much work was put into it.
2) Rand’s philosophy would proclaim he is thus worth less, that he has been less productive. This is certainly ridiculous. Rand seems not to recognize artistic or scientific productivity, only economic productivity. She would praise the millionaire CEO of a fashion company over the scientist who resolves the conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity. She places no value on knowledge itself, only the knowledge which can benefit society.
1) I find the value Rand places on money, well… contemptible. I find it dehumanizing; that it proclaims that one’s wealth is the measurement of one’s worth, as whether or not one is wealthy is based on the arbitrary, materialistic desires of a society, which is certainly not a measurement for objective worth. For example, Lady Gaga is certainly very wealthy, and if Mozart were alive today, he would not be as wealthy due to his lesser popularity among the masses.
@Johannes999999999 You show your stupidity by conflating the theory into meaning that the amount of money one makes defines one's objective worth. The theory is about one's labor's worth to others, not about one's objective worth in dollars.
@ElJefer My mistake; nevertheless, my point still applies in some manner. Specifically, for what reason does Rand's philosophy focus on economics to such a degree in defining one's worth in any respect? Economics is a human creation and to place such importance on it in some respects creates a circular argument. And please, there is no need for hostility; this should be constructive. In addition, I assure you I am not stupid.
@Johannes999999999 I overreacted initially, sorry. She does place great importance of economic freedom because it can restrict every other kind of freedom. She says money will not buy you intelligence or admiration if one's incompetent, so she recognizes that money does not = worth, but I think when she says "degree of productiveness = reward" you have a point, it often doesn't not work that way, and productiveness and reward should not be ideals. Still, the free market is the most moral system
The Bible says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. If you read the context of the Bible, it means you should not obsess over something in material form in exchange it for your soul. It does NOT say money is the root of all EVIL!
It´s interesting. She says an heir might be worthy of his money or he might be not, but at the same time she takes it for granted that any man who envies him does not deserve the money. The heir has done nothing more to deserve the money than the man who envies him.
We live in a thankful economy when you're thankful just to have a job we are at the point where having a job is more important than the money we earn regardless of your skill set or your vocation . It doesn't matter how hard you work or what ladder you try to climb to success. It is only meant for a privileged few only 1% of the population controls majority of the wealth which leaves scraps for everyone else to fight over I don't hate money but I don't want to sell my soul to get it either.
@TheHorta The bible, Timothy 6:10. "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."(depending on the Bible i think) and has just been misquoted like so many other things from the bible
Don't women exist in this narrators world? Where's the honour in modern day banking, fractional reserve, fiat currency, economies based on debt. Currency has been round for thousands of years, its time we prepare for a new system. Money is created out of nothing but debt, in order for money you need debt. We need to change this outdated system, stop trading for value. In the bigger picture humans accumulation of wealth is the biggest threat we face, even willing to destroy the planet for it.
It seems as though Ayn Rand took bribe from wealthy as all these ideas favor the wealthy. Who else but greedy wealthy people will say that charity is bad. Money is evil because the poor work their ass off to earn pennies, while the rich sit on cushions and count millions.. ;)
@gabsave That's not true at all. The rich also work their butts off which is why they have so much money. The rich also donate millions to charity. It's just a simple truth that some people will do better than others because of talent, education, personal drive and ambition. That is true in anything and everything. Some ar ebetter football players, better actors, better business people, better salesmen, etc. If U invent the next Ipod, you don't want a cut of the profits from your innovation?
@jboritzki Let me give you an example to help you better understand. Let's say I inherited 100Million$ and rental properties from my father. I don't do any job except collecting rent from my properties. I think investing in Crude oil is good and invest 100M$ in crude to make money. I created artificial demand and crude price goes up in market. After 2 months I sell my stock for 120M$ and make 20M$ profit. Now you tell me, did I work hard to earn 20M $ ? Average Joe can't earn that amount, ever.
@gabsave I don't know if you noticed, but the Average Joe makes himself rich often. In doing so, he works hard, gains knowledge, improves his standard of living, buys things which employed people have to produce or make for him. I don't see how that makes anyone greedy. Your stock market thing isn't realistic, but if it was, what would you do with that 20 million? Also, what is a poor person that earns pennies for hard work in your mind?
@jboritzki You argued that rich work hard. I just proved you were wrong. Some of them do work hard, but I know a lot of them don't. If a person is rich he can live a great life without doing any work and thats the point.
@gabsave You did not prove anything, you just asserted that rich people, I assume you mean most of them, inherit their money then sit on their butts and do nothing but live the good life. That is utterly ridiculous.
Even if it were true, what do you suppose should be done about other things that are inherited? Things like physical abilities or on the other side, physical disabilities. I assume you think there is a way to equal things out in those areas as well?
@gabsave You did not prove anything, you just asserted that rich people, I assume you mean most of them, inherit their money then sit on their butts and do nothing but live the good life. That is utterly ridiculous.
Even if it were true, what do you suppose should be done about other things that are inherited? Things like physical abilities or on the other side, physical disabilities. I assume you think there is a way to equal things out in those areas as well?
@gabsave The poor people I know, meaning the ones on welfare, tend to be content with the income that welfare provides for them. They almost never take jobs for fear of losing that welfare. They would like to have millions, but they're not willing to do anything to earn it other than buy lottery tickets. Everyone has an equal opportunity, but no one has equal abilities or a guarantee or equal outcomes. If U invest and win, it's because you took that risk. U might have lost all of your money.
@gabsave A fool and his money are soon parted. Do you realize how many inheritances have been lost due to heir unable to match the ability that produced it? Do you know how little of the richest in society are there because of inheritance? You seem to think that a great deal of them are. It's not an accurate characterization of the very rich. The top levels of wealth are constantly shifting, not this generational class status that egalitarians love to project.
@Draniels let's try not to be condescending. I have read Atlas Shrugged and I even agreed with her at first but I had difficulty coming to terms with what she called selfish virtue... I don't think we can live in a sustained, calm world where the purpose of one's life is the pursuit of his own happiness. I think it's masked hedonism. I also blame our current economic climate on her laissez-faire philosophy and manipulation of the capitalist norm to have certain restrictions on our market.
I don't think money is the root of evil. Money is just an object that people give value. Money is no more or less evil than gold is. The love and/or lusting for money... well, that I could agree is a root of evil, but certainly not the only root of evil.
@tcvicesquad if it wasn't for hard working ppl a lot of millionaires, or millionaires wouldn't have the money they have now, plus theses are the same ppl who can't pay their weight, but the rest of the commo folk picks up the tab. now i'm not Do's redistribution of their money, but i'm not against them paying their fair share ya dumbass
The video leaves out the fact that Technology is replacing the need for humans to create (work). When robots create our needs what need will we have for money?
Our ancestors and we have been working for thousands of years to make our life easier on this planet so how are we going to survive when there is no work. In 50 years we won't have to work and finally we can enjoy the fruits of things created years before us.
If sex is good, and animals are good, how can sex with animals be bad?
Answer: Because they don't go together.
Love is to be directed toward personal beings, not inanimate objects.
People are unique and irrepleable, money is not unique and irreplaceble. Infact, when you realize that people are unique and irreplacble and behave like it, it does wonders for wallet. This enables you to do more good for people.
It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is actually the" LOVE" of money that is the root of all evil. Money is simply a tool to be used to live. It is when you love money and worship money that run into a problem.
Money is a burden to the human soul, because it becomes an idol. I don't call money evil, I don't hate money or those who make it. i am for free markets. But to deny that greed has ever catalyzed evil is simply insane. Like many things of this world money can make decent men turn cold and indifferent to the struggles of others. I have seen it happen in front of my eyes.
@pablocoon Who decides what is greed? To some, the man who achieves in always considered greedy, since he has more than those who do not. We all act in our self-interest. For ourselves, its being responsible. But, when others do it, we often call it greed.
Money cannot corrupt decent men, it only exposes men misidentified as decent.
Some seem to think it evil to achieve the best possible life to yourself and family, even though they seek the same. If so, money is the root of all evil.
@fzqlcs It very easy to decide what greed is. Greed is having far more than you could ever need to be comfortable and safe and then wanting far more. You're right, money cannot corrupt decent men, because there are no decent men. There are no truly good people, we all far short of good. But money can ensnare us in ways few things can. You can achieve the best life for your family without extreme material wealth, what I believe is that no one should ever force you to. Free will is from God.
@Darkrunner1975 I agree that Gates and Buffet don't owe people shit for their legitimate gains, but you should check out their inside dealings with the government to favor their business practices. Ayn Rand would not be proud.
I agree. But that is a political problem. Both republican and democrat tycoons work the political system, for better or worse. That won't change until there is a paradigm shift in government. Unfortunately, in times past, people thought government seizing ideas and money from the innovators was a panacea for mankind.
And we all know how that idea has worked out in history...
Those who succeed, such as Gates or Buffett, men who have created things the world uses are looked on upon by the people who haven't done shit with their lives as if those men owe them something.
The fact that those men give freely of their money says something to their character.
But to say somehow that because they come up with a good idea, and make billions off of it, that they OWE you something?
This whole rant could have been avoided by clarifying the quote or maybe correcting it. It is not "money is the root of all evil", but rather "the love of money is the root of all evil" as in greed that drives a person to do evil things for money such as murder, lie, cheat and steal.
@97Wildfire Actually I would say it is ok to love money, when that money will be used to improve your life. Greed does not drive people to do evil things. It is when people seek power through money that it is corrupted. Those who murder, lie, cheat and steal would have done all those things even if money didn't exist. They would have done it for the same reason, power.
Greed is good. It drives us to improve ourselves. It is the fact that we want a raise that will drive us to work harder.
@ryanpmurphy It depends on how you wish to define terms. When you say greed maybe you mean what others would call "self interest". People acting in their own self interest in a market that allows for voluntary exchanges is the probably the basic idea behind the free market and one I agree with. Greed on the other hand is usually seen as a vice, people going behind self interest and actively hurting others to promote themselves and/or acting in a short sighted unsustainable way to the same ends
@97Wildfire My point was more that it is power lust, and not greed that is the problem. One could argue Bill Gates is greedy, but he is not evil. Bernie Maddoff was not greedy he lusted for power over people by swindling them out of their money.
There is a difference there that is not merely semantic. And I think the definitions of words are important, and we need to defend against cultural shifts in definitions such as greed and selfish. Those words were not always viewed as a negative.
@ryanpmurphy for the most part we probably agree with each other, we are just wrestling with semantics. I never was much of Rand fan because I think she seemed to confuse matters with such semantic games and gimmicks. Others make a much better case for free market ideals and in a way that appeals to the mainstream IMHO.
hey i know george bush was a wishy washy cnservative but what i do know he defended was a completely deregulated system of doin business.infact when the market is spo deregulated it only takes a couple of yrs, less than a decade, for it to fold nd crumble within itself.no deregulation system has ever been known to support itself, they always crumble under financial crises or wars.
hey i know george bush was a wishy washy cnservative but what i do know he defended was a completely deregulated system of doin business.infact when the market is spo deregulated it only takes a couple of yrs, less than a decade, for it to fold nd crumble within itself.no deregulation system has ever been known to support itself, they always crumble under financial crises or wars.
NOW SERIOUSLY, WHO ARE THE "FOOLS" MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO, JUST BCOZ AM NOT MAKING BILLIONS, DOES IT MEAN THAT AM "LAZY".MAN FUCK THIS VIDEO, THIS IS A CLASS WAR VIDEO AM WILLING TO FIGHT
IT IS IMMORAL TO ASSUME THAT ONLY THOSE THAT PRODUCE CREATE MONEY.IT IS A CYCLICAL THING, U CAN PRODUCE ALL THE PRODUCTS U WANT BT WITHOUT PEOPLE WORKING TO AFFORD THE GOODS U PRODUCE, MONEY LOOSES VALUE
@madscientistify How do you make money? Rand is referring to all honest work as being productive. The janitor produces clean floors, the store clerk produces happy customers, and people like Bernie Maddoff produce nothing. They are the moochers.
Rand respected those at every economic level as long as they earned their money through honest trade.
Those who believe Wealth can come from a printing press will stop creating real wealth as in food, and start printing more money instead! Real Wealth can only come from Earth not a printing press!
No amount of gold can deliver one in the day of God's anger.
13 "No servant can serve two masters at the same time. He will hate one of them and love the other. Or he will be faithful to one and dislike the other. You can't serve God and Money at the same time."
r people seriously out of tune wth their own personal lives just coz u have a black president??americans u all r just fucked up, seriously, i know countries in the 3rd world whose people thnk and reason better than u
no1 has anythng against money, just the people who produce that money, seriously people, r u so fuckin ignorant as o love ths video??dont u hear what ths guy is tellin u?cud u be so fckin retarded as nt 2get the message?only the trumps of ths world r useful, and u all shud work to ensure their continued happiness.
well said, the only problm is we tried ths for like 8years and all we ended up wth were housing crises, economic turmoil, incessant wars ENRON, FANNIE, oil hitting 140 dolaz a barrel, goldman sachs, george bush, dick cheney,job losses a million a month etc.seriously my fellow human beings, r u going to allow to be called shoddy,useless human beings, "nt 2carry the weight of ur misery" yet u work 3jobs to just keep up.r u gonna allow urselves to be so abused jst coz u got a black president??
In case you are unaware, the previous 8 years to which you refer did not represent a laissez faire economy. Not even close. You literally just listed off a series of things that government did.
The person who wrote the words in this video was not a Republican, by the way. She was an Objectivist minarchist.
@VTAcraft well like it or not, 1 out of every7 americans live below the poverty line.these are the sort of people this video deems as shoddy, or useless, or whose personal misery shud not be taken in2 acct for reason of them not being able t create substantial amts of wealth.u r the dumb 1 if ur nt in sync wth the reality of many people on the ground
@madscientistify Excuse me, Rand's words provided a description of 2 general types of people—one a mooch and the other a thief. You here to defend mooching and thievery?
She said nothing of those living under the poverty line in the United States of America in 2010, the majority of whom are being kept down by inflation, corporatism, regulations, taxes, licenses, etc.
@VTAcraft hey i know george bush was a wishy washy cnservative but what i do know he defended was a completely deregulated system of doin business.infact when the market is spo deregulated it only takes a couple of yrs, less than a decade, for it to fold nd crumble within itself.no deregulation system has ever been known to support itself, they always crumble under financial crises or wars.
@VTAcraft the people ths video is seemingly castigating are the hardest workers, those who shuffle 2 jobs just to make ends meet.who were caught in a financial turmoil, that was not of their doing, honest hard workingt coalminers who do not know anythng abt the wall street crash, yet their jobs end up suffering as a result of a few individuals overzealousness for short term profit.dude, WTF IS WRONG WTH U??
@madscientistify WHEN WE QUESTION why people live such miserable lives, idiots like u come terming it as socialism, whe we leave idiot executives self drive the markets into disaser and let it be, that gets termed as capitalism.
You should re-listen to this and resist the urge to assume that D'Anconia is slamming poor people for being poor. He isn't. He's slamming those men who believe that they have a right to the mind of other men.
P.S. this financial turmoil to which you refer was created and catalyzed by governments violating the very principles that D'Anconia is stressing in this monologue.
@VTAcraft hey ths is what i know.if the free market system, which this video refers to, was so almost perfectly capable of supporting itself, the majority of people would not want to reform it.all the time, even history shall dictate, when free mkt was left to its own devices, we either had the slave trade, the 1897 crash, the 1907 crash, the the 1929 crash, the 2007 crash.all that was as a result of a completely deregulated market.
@madscientistify That logic embarrassingly bad. Stating that free markets are obviously bad because certain people want to "reform" them is the logical equivalent of stating that a girl is a whore because certain people want to rape her. Not her fault.
I'm not going to give you a full history lesson on youtube but suffice it to say that those things you referred to were mostly either caused or sustained by govt. action (eg fiat currency policies, fugitive slave laws, etc).
An "unregulated free market" is redundant; a "regulated free market" is an oximoron... by definition.
You might as well say that men with XY chromosomes are bad while men with XX chromosomes are bad. lol
You literally just said that free markets are good except for the ones that are free. And free markets are bad except for the ones that aren't free. lol.
@madscientistify The 19th Century didn't represent a PERFECTLY free market society. Perfection isn't achievable. But it was much freer relative to the 20th Century, and look at the 20th Century.... decade long depressions instead of 2 year recessions; huge wars; millions of people utterly dependent on the tit of the state and never able to work their way out of poverty; huge bailouts and special favors for the politically connected rich elite.
@madscientistify Slaves are completely counter to a free market, if slavery exists in a free market, it ceases to be a free market. A slave cannot trade his labor for goods. When a government protects the institution of slavery that is a form of economic regulation.
these crashes did not occur in deregulated markets, there has always been regulation, especially the most recent. Bush was no free market advocate, and in fact expanded bank regulations more than most of his predecessors.
@VTAcraft WHEN WE QUESTION why people live such miserable lives, idiots like u come terming it as socialism, whe we leave idiot executives self drive the markets into disaser and let it be, that gets termed as capitalism.
@OSCAR7893 Our world is controlled by psychopaths. Money is used to keep the slaves in line and to concentrate power, in the hands of a few. Why should I have to pay for anything, on a planet I was born on? The famous quote of Christianity is "The love of money is the root of all evil". We are forced to use money by a corrupt system that is concerned with power and control and not peace and love. Evil men love money and lust after it and when they have it, they move on to power.
@Nonterastor Money doesn't make all righteous men evil, thus your absolute statement is false. Your second statement is also false because some people are satisfied with the money they have.
My second statement was:"And there will never be enough money for everyone",what i meant was,there is not enough money in the world to bail all the nations out,even if every citizen,gives ALL his money.
The reason for that is something called "interest".
You may want to watch this video: /watch?v=AgKFLk9xffA
The love of money is the root of all evil. Those in charge love money and once they have money they want power and control. These are men who have a reptilian brain, fully in control of them. Our world will not be free until there is no money. The use of money is a perfection of left brain beings. The left brain connects us to our body and the right brain, to the universe.Money makes absolute sense to left brain reasoning.Those that will enter 4th density, will be those connected to right brain.
Money is not the root of evil but part of the tools that those who use it for there own selfish gain. Money is a simple object that we use to obtain that which we wish be it for good or for our own wishes.
In my mind Fiat currency has no true value at all only that who control use to control.
This is the root of all evil. Masochistic altruism that defines good as something that does not benefit you and describes evil as that which does benefit you.
If this is supposed to be a passage from Atlas Shrugged, it must be a rather stale book. Does she have characters subsitute for her every other page in long speeches?
Money isn't goods, it only represents goods. Unless you are producing goods (or providing an honest service that people will trade for goods), your money isn't honest. The love of money is evil because it causes people to seek money in dishonest ways. The love of producing goods or providing an honest service is not evil, even though it would lead to the accumulation of lots of money. If your goal is only to get money you will never be satisfied, money is a result of producing and providing
@thomaserossi Popular "knowledge" has held that the Bible verse says that money itself is the root of all evil. Wrong, yes, but a popular idea. Rand was using this thought, to point out the real meaning of money.
@thomaserossi@thomaserossi "Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you..."
Yeah...Rand covered that too. Plus a lot of people say that money is the root of all evil, ignoring the context so it really isn't a strawman... Maybe you should actually pay attention to the speech before you criticize it.
This entire argument is a straw man, because the Bible does not say that money is the root of evil... it says the LOVE OF money is.
"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
@TheLegalImmigrant05 Simply put, I would define "the love of money" as greed. To take it a step further, I would characterize it as putting one's faith in the things of this world. Regarding your offer to "discuss whether it is indeed the root of all evil", there is no discussion, as the word of God is not open for debate.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
@TheUSVET I believe Thomas Jefferson said something along those lines about a central bank indeed, but that particular quote is bogus.
Look up, for instance, the word "deflation" in an etymology dictionary. That word was first used in the late 19th century, and only applied to currency in the 20th century!
"Corporation" was also applied too broadly back then. It applied to any association of people that had a legal existence. Marriage was a corporation for instance.
@TheUSVET Not only has that quote been manipulated by someone to stupid to write in old English, but it makes no sense. I can see why a central bank would want to inflate the currency (ie. print money), but deflate?! And why would a central bank first inflate and _then_ deflate? Why do corporations grow around such a central bank, and not other forms of institution? Won't the central bank share money with the army, government, etc too?
That video is a big big lie for this philosophy of money equals work was true before the introduction of income tax...
Now with income tax we receive only HALF what we are worth, here in Ontario we have less than 47 cents left on each dollar we work for, which means some people loving money without earning it through labour steals from us, which means we are ROBBED workers!!
THey should create a more sinister video about the real life value of work!!! bah!
I believe the phrase is "the love of money is the root of all evil". Money is not evil. Wanting money is not evil. Loving money above God, live and your fellow man is what is the root of evil.
@GeminiK That's what I'm saying: loving money above God and life and others. If you care for money and are willing to sacrifice a person or life or God, then that begats evil. Just wanting money isn't bad, especially if you hold life and others and such as more important.
evil is also defined by religions as basically money but that is not important. Money is evil yes. Everyone should just help eachother for free we should be able to function. No one like the money system... No one likes capitalism they just think its less worse than the alternatives. just because capitalism is better dosnt mean it is not shitty.
@progressxoverdue Also saying it is the only ethical system is a false dichotomy. You dont know every possible arrangments of all possible fiscal systems.
@AEVautomatic "money is an abstraction its not even real. We should change any numbers we like to improve things. There is no reason we can't do this."?
hahahahahahahah, Oh really!? so most of mankind's history has been spent in abject poverty because we just never thought to print bills with bigger numbers on them??? Ohh god, this is great news!
@Spalg because that would be a harmfull manipulation. You should only interviene in markets if what you do will be worthwhile. Makeing every dollar worth 1 trillion will cause too much inflation. It would be idiotic to make every dollar worth 1 trillion.
@Spalg no your idea is idiotic. I said we should minupulate money in any way we can that makes things better. "better" bettter" better" better means "not worse." your idea makes things worse so you dont do that. Don't misquote me again. If you are not more intellectual i will end this pointless debate. You must respond with a valid argument that is cogent or you have lost this online debate.
"You should only interviene in markets if what you do will be worthwhile". Worthwhile to whom? You sir have to much trust. What would be "idiodic" would be to allow control over the money supply.
you already are doing it. If we only spent the GDP or "the money workers make" then we would probably be 50 years behind where we are today. From now on we will replace (money that workers make) with GDP because its less idiotic. ok???
Money isn't the root of all evil. The abuse of power, which is what money represents, power, is the root of all evil. Money is simply power in paper.
Floafffy 2 weeks ago
fuck ayn rand.
fluffysnakeful 3 weeks ago
It sounds like your trying to quote the Bible but you got it wrong. 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." You see it's not money itself but the LOVE of money that is the root of all kinds of evil. Ask yourself what LOVE is; love is giving your most precious resources to someone or something. TIME and EFFORT are your most precious resources.
chemicalsweet13 3 weeks ago
@chemicalsweet13 So you see if you give the vast majority of your time and energy to making money, you have very little left for your faith, your family, yourself. It is the LOVE of money that causes imbalance in your life and you feel the pain of that through stress, pressure on your marriage and relationships and social obligations etc. You have a finite amount of love, there are limitations on your ability to provide it so choose WISELY what you love. Money is a tool to get you what you need
chemicalsweet13 3 weeks ago
Money is the root of all evil, buisnesses thrive on it, they will destroy the world in order to make more of it (the seven deadly sins), this is how our world will meet its demise... if we dont sort it out, That is
W33DKingCA 1 month ago
@W33DKingCA If you believe that you are an Idiot.
Cogitatio023 1 month ago
@Cogitatio023 another person who would what, wipe out a jungle for a bit of money, dude we got 1 planet and its gotta last us, money stops people seeing sense so to speak and as to me being an idiot, i would say im more hard hitting, obviously got you thinking if you replied to me
W33DKingCA 1 month ago
This is a lot of flowery words and is repeatative. Money is still the root of all evil. Though not per se but the system that uses money. XD IT is right in saying money is a tool but its existence having no real measure to measure value, nor are men honest in stating value, contribute to the ill's of money. It contributes directly to perpetuating an environment the induces crimes, and suffering.
HajtomY 1 month ago
so to speed up our progress to the inevitable future of harmony anyone who promotes capitalism should b taken out back and shot without a second thought as you would with a racist or even worse..a religious fuck. This is what keeps me going in a world scientifically proven to b without inherit value that one day these evil minds will b wiped out and we will look back and laugh and laugh that humans were once in this vile state
AnonymousTheMusician 2 months ago
Your all viewing it from the wrong point. We must look at things from that of a futurist and we all agree in the future there will first off b no religion no racism and no jobs as machines wil b able to do anything a human does trillions of times more effeicent and since they will b self replecating it creates a closed loop. So we need to strive with all our might to reach this goal in which everyone is equal in every scence of the term and with no religion or money there would b world peace
AnonymousTheMusician 2 months ago
Lucky to have heard these words.
heapner 2 months ago
my point is, things are out of balance.We are not living in harmony with nature, we are instead going for obscene profits and exploiting nature, because the corporation is beholdent to the stock holders. its not right that japan just got flooded with nuclear waste, that we had the oil gush of 2010, and that we were in a war where corporations had workers working alongside military. KBR, HALLIBURTON, BLACKWATER, should be ashamed for taking such advantage of the american taxpayer
radicalphil42069 2 months ago
The way I see it, Money, and the stockbrokerage system, the bankers interest, and oil have hyperinflated human society and human population. With new farming technolgies, we can stave off pests via pesticide to feed more people, but at the same time polluting the air and soil as well as diminishing the quality of the food. An organic banana cost twice as much as a sprayed banana. This is true not because of how trendy organic food is, the price is reflective of how much work was put into it.
radicalphil42069 2 months ago
You can be the greediest man in the world and still not make one more penny because of it. ~Milton Friedman
ElJefer 2 months ago
2) Rand’s philosophy would proclaim he is thus worth less, that he has been less productive. This is certainly ridiculous. Rand seems not to recognize artistic or scientific productivity, only economic productivity. She would praise the millionaire CEO of a fashion company over the scientist who resolves the conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity. She places no value on knowledge itself, only the knowledge which can benefit society.
Johannes999999999 2 months ago
1) I find the value Rand places on money, well… contemptible. I find it dehumanizing; that it proclaims that one’s wealth is the measurement of one’s worth, as whether or not one is wealthy is based on the arbitrary, materialistic desires of a society, which is certainly not a measurement for objective worth. For example, Lady Gaga is certainly very wealthy, and if Mozart were alive today, he would not be as wealthy due to his lesser popularity among the masses.
Johannes999999999 2 months ago
@Johannes999999999 You show your stupidity by conflating the theory into meaning that the amount of money one makes defines one's objective worth. The theory is about one's labor's worth to others, not about one's objective worth in dollars.
ElJefer 2 months ago
@ElJefer My mistake; nevertheless, my point still applies in some manner. Specifically, for what reason does Rand's philosophy focus on economics to such a degree in defining one's worth in any respect? Economics is a human creation and to place such importance on it in some respects creates a circular argument. And please, there is no need for hostility; this should be constructive. In addition, I assure you I am not stupid.
Johannes999999999 2 months ago
@Johannes999999999 I overreacted initially, sorry. She does place great importance of economic freedom because it can restrict every other kind of freedom. She says money will not buy you intelligence or admiration if one's incompetent, so she recognizes that money does not = worth, but I think when she says "degree of productiveness = reward" you have a point, it often doesn't not work that way, and productiveness and reward should not be ideals. Still, the free market is the most moral system
ElJefer 2 months ago
The Bible says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. If you read the context of the Bible, it means you should not obsess over something in material form in exchange it for your soul. It does NOT say money is the root of all EVIL!
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It´s interesting. She says an heir might be worthy of his money or he might be not, but at the same time she takes it for granted that any man who envies him does not deserve the money. The heir has done nothing more to deserve the money than the man who envies him.
lifevt94hellotoworld 6 months ago
We live in a thankful economy when you're thankful just to have a job we are at the point where having a job is more important than the money we earn regardless of your skill set or your vocation . It doesn't matter how hard you work or what ladder you try to climb to success. It is only meant for a privileged few only 1% of the population controls majority of the wealth which leaves scraps for everyone else to fight over I don't hate money but I don't want to sell my soul to get it either.
dmtrssngltn 6 months ago
@dmtrssngltn Excellent view and understanding. As long as we don't take up too much debt and live with in our means we should be ok. Good luck.
gabsave 5 months ago
What idiot said money is the root of all evil?
TheHorta 6 months ago
@TheHorta The bible, Timothy 6:10. "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."(depending on the Bible i think) and has just been misquoted like so many other things from the bible
PhauxTheFox 6 months ago
Either money or the human race will be extinct in the next 200 years.
mcmcerson 6 months ago
u wana know how money is the root to all evil, plant a couple stacks in some place and see how much hell you can raise.
dat1mesikindude 6 months ago
Don't women exist in this narrators world? Where's the honour in modern day banking, fractional reserve, fiat currency, economies based on debt. Currency has been round for thousands of years, its time we prepare for a new system. Money is created out of nothing but debt, in order for money you need debt. We need to change this outdated system, stop trading for value. In the bigger picture humans accumulation of wealth is the biggest threat we face, even willing to destroy the planet for it.
patlad11 6 months ago
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins, money has its place when properly used and cared for.
SpringChatty 6 months ago
Money isn't the root of all evil, but the love of money sure is.
cmiller8492 7 months ago
In my experience, those who think money is evil have no qualms with using violence to take it from those who have it.
Dirge987 7 months ago 3
It seems as though Ayn Rand took bribe from wealthy as all these ideas favor the wealthy. Who else but greedy wealthy people will say that charity is bad. Money is evil because the poor work their ass off to earn pennies, while the rich sit on cushions and count millions.. ;)
gabsave 8 months ago 3
@gabsave That's not true at all. The rich also work their butts off which is why they have so much money. The rich also donate millions to charity. It's just a simple truth that some people will do better than others because of talent, education, personal drive and ambition. That is true in anything and everything. Some ar ebetter football players, better actors, better business people, better salesmen, etc. If U invent the next Ipod, you don't want a cut of the profits from your innovation?
jboritzki 5 months ago
@jboritzki Let me give you an example to help you better understand. Let's say I inherited 100Million$ and rental properties from my father. I don't do any job except collecting rent from my properties. I think investing in Crude oil is good and invest 100M$ in crude to make money. I created artificial demand and crude price goes up in market. After 2 months I sell my stock for 120M$ and make 20M$ profit. Now you tell me, did I work hard to earn 20M $ ? Average Joe can't earn that amount, ever.
gabsave 5 months ago
@gabsave I don't know if you noticed, but the Average Joe makes himself rich often. In doing so, he works hard, gains knowledge, improves his standard of living, buys things which employed people have to produce or make for him. I don't see how that makes anyone greedy. Your stock market thing isn't realistic, but if it was, what would you do with that 20 million? Also, what is a poor person that earns pennies for hard work in your mind?
jboritzki 5 months ago
@jboritzki You argued that rich work hard. I just proved you were wrong. Some of them do work hard, but I know a lot of them don't. If a person is rich he can live a great life without doing any work and thats the point.
gabsave 5 months ago
@gabsave You did not prove anything, you just asserted that rich people, I assume you mean most of them, inherit their money then sit on their butts and do nothing but live the good life. That is utterly ridiculous.
Even if it were true, what do you suppose should be done about other things that are inherited? Things like physical abilities or on the other side, physical disabilities. I assume you think there is a way to equal things out in those areas as well?
jboritzki 5 months ago
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@gabsave You did not prove anything, you just asserted that rich people, I assume you mean most of them, inherit their money then sit on their butts and do nothing but live the good life. That is utterly ridiculous.
Even if it were true, what do you suppose should be done about other things that are inherited? Things like physical abilities or on the other side, physical disabilities. I assume you think there is a way to equal things out in those areas as well?
jboritzki 5 months ago
@gabsave Are you arguing that a rich person who lives a great life without effort should be coerced into relinquishing that wealth?
ElJefer 2 months ago
@gabsave The poor people I know, meaning the ones on welfare, tend to be content with the income that welfare provides for them. They almost never take jobs for fear of losing that welfare. They would like to have millions, but they're not willing to do anything to earn it other than buy lottery tickets. Everyone has an equal opportunity, but no one has equal abilities or a guarantee or equal outcomes. If U invest and win, it's because you took that risk. U might have lost all of your money.
jboritzki 5 months ago
@gabsave A fool and his money are soon parted. Do you realize how many inheritances have been lost due to heir unable to match the ability that produced it? Do you know how little of the richest in society are there because of inheritance? You seem to think that a great deal of them are. It's not an accurate characterization of the very rich. The top levels of wealth are constantly shifting, not this generational class status that egalitarians love to project.
ScionAscendant 2 months ago
ayn rand has a perverse vision of mankind, and any conclusion drawn from her ethics retains her disgusting ideology.
PeterKeffer 8 months ago 2
@PeterKeffer
hahaha! if you would read the book, you would see how the villains in it talk in the same way as you.
Tell me, what is this "perverse vision of mankind" you speak of?
Draniels 8 months ago
@Draniels let's try not to be condescending. I have read Atlas Shrugged and I even agreed with her at first but I had difficulty coming to terms with what she called selfish virtue... I don't think we can live in a sustained, calm world where the purpose of one's life is the pursuit of his own happiness. I think it's masked hedonism. I also blame our current economic climate on her laissez-faire philosophy and manipulation of the capitalist norm to have certain restrictions on our market.
PeterKeffer 7 months ago
Money is made by the intelligent at the expense of the middle class. And intelligence comes from pure luck, nothing else.
lifevt94hellotoworld 8 months ago
Love it.
nikolayzou 8 months ago
Money is debt....it has nothing to do with what people produce. It is an instrument for enslavement
gryspnik 9 months ago
@gryspnik your thinking of fiat currency
firebadger101 8 months ago
I don't think money is the root of evil. Money is just an object that people give value. Money is no more or less evil than gold is. The love and/or lusting for money... well, that I could agree is a root of evil, but certainly not the only root of evil.
LazerSinkWolf 9 months ago
@tcvicesquad if it wasn't for hard working ppl a lot of millionaires, or millionaires wouldn't have the money they have now, plus theses are the same ppl who can't pay their weight, but the rest of the commo folk picks up the tab. now i'm not Do's redistribution of their money, but i'm not against them paying their fair share ya dumbass
blackboi262 11 months ago
Lazy welfare niggers and credit addicted yuppies with a sickening sense of entitlement to the wealth of the working man are the root of all evil.
tcvicesquad 11 months ago
The video leaves out the fact that Technology is replacing the need for humans to create (work). When robots create our needs what need will we have for money?
Our ancestors and we have been working for thousands of years to make our life easier on this planet so how are we going to survive when there is no work. In 50 years we won't have to work and finally we can enjoy the fruits of things created years before us.
CosmosPrivateer 1 year ago
Looks like green paper.
PrivateDmitry 1 year ago
Rand is "dead on balls accurate." If love is good and money is good how can love of money be evil?
c4wins 1 year ago
@c4wins
If sex is good, and animals are good, how can sex with animals be bad?
Answer: Because they don't go together.
Love is to be directed toward personal beings, not inanimate objects.
People are unique and irrepleable, money is not unique and irreplaceble. Infact, when you realize that people are unique and irreplacble and behave like it, it does wonders for wallet. This enables you to do more good for people.
Onieracraft 1 year ago
Narrator sounds like V.
madass888 1 year ago
It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is actually the" LOVE" of money that is the root of all evil. Money is simply a tool to be used to live. It is when you love money and worship money that run into a problem.
richlud1 1 year ago
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"Like many things of this world money can make decent men turn cold and indifferent to the struggles of others."
"Money" can't make decent men do anything they decide not to do anymore than women can make decent men rape. We all have free will.
Lbfent2 1 year ago
Money is a burden to the human soul, because it becomes an idol. I don't call money evil, I don't hate money or those who make it. i am for free markets. But to deny that greed has ever catalyzed evil is simply insane. Like many things of this world money can make decent men turn cold and indifferent to the struggles of others. I have seen it happen in front of my eyes.
pablocoon 1 year ago
@pablocoon Who decides what is greed? To some, the man who achieves in always considered greedy, since he has more than those who do not. We all act in our self-interest. For ourselves, its being responsible. But, when others do it, we often call it greed.
Money cannot corrupt decent men, it only exposes men misidentified as decent.
Some seem to think it evil to achieve the best possible life to yourself and family, even though they seek the same. If so, money is the root of all evil.
fzqlcs 1 year ago 8
@fzqlcs It very easy to decide what greed is. Greed is having far more than you could ever need to be comfortable and safe and then wanting far more. You're right, money cannot corrupt decent men, because there are no decent men. There are no truly good people, we all far short of good. But money can ensnare us in ways few things can. You can achieve the best life for your family without extreme material wealth, what I believe is that no one should ever force you to. Free will is from God.
pablocoon 10 months ago
@Darkrunner1975 I agree that Gates and Buffet don't owe people shit for their legitimate gains, but you should check out their inside dealings with the government to favor their business practices. Ayn Rand would not be proud.
Hoenhoff 1 year ago
@Hoenhoff
I agree. But that is a political problem. Both republican and democrat tycoons work the political system, for better or worse. That won't change until there is a paradigm shift in government. Unfortunately, in times past, people thought government seizing ideas and money from the innovators was a panacea for mankind.
And we all know how that idea has worked out in history...
Darkrunner1975 1 year ago
Those who succeed, such as Gates or Buffett, men who have created things the world uses are looked on upon by the people who haven't done shit with their lives as if those men owe them something.
The fact that those men give freely of their money says something to their character.
But to say somehow that because they come up with a good idea, and make billions off of it, that they OWE you something?
Get fucked.
Darkrunner1975 1 year ago
@Darkrunner1975 yeah ur talkin shyt and probably earnin around 20,000$ a year
madscientistify 1 year ago
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@madscientistify
Nope, I am not one of you. Nice try though!
Darkrunner1975 1 year ago
This whole rant could have been avoided by clarifying the quote or maybe correcting it. It is not "money is the root of all evil", but rather "the love of money is the root of all evil" as in greed that drives a person to do evil things for money such as murder, lie, cheat and steal.
97Wildfire 1 year ago
@97Wildfire actually I misquoted it myself LOL. It is "for the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil" 1 Timothy 6:10
In a world of sound bites context makes all the difference.
97Wildfire 1 year ago
@97Wildfire Actually I would say it is ok to love money, when that money will be used to improve your life. Greed does not drive people to do evil things. It is when people seek power through money that it is corrupted. Those who murder, lie, cheat and steal would have done all those things even if money didn't exist. They would have done it for the same reason, power.
Greed is good. It drives us to improve ourselves. It is the fact that we want a raise that will drive us to work harder.
ryanpmurphy 1 year ago
@ryanpmurphy It depends on how you wish to define terms. When you say greed maybe you mean what others would call "self interest". People acting in their own self interest in a market that allows for voluntary exchanges is the probably the basic idea behind the free market and one I agree with. Greed on the other hand is usually seen as a vice, people going behind self interest and actively hurting others to promote themselves and/or acting in a short sighted unsustainable way to the same ends
97Wildfire 1 year ago
@97Wildfire My point was more that it is power lust, and not greed that is the problem. One could argue Bill Gates is greedy, but he is not evil. Bernie Maddoff was not greedy he lusted for power over people by swindling them out of their money.
There is a difference there that is not merely semantic. And I think the definitions of words are important, and we need to defend against cultural shifts in definitions such as greed and selfish. Those words were not always viewed as a negative.
ryanpmurphy 1 year ago
@ryanpmurphy for the most part we probably agree with each other, we are just wrestling with semantics. I never was much of Rand fan because I think she seemed to confuse matters with such semantic games and gimmicks. Others make a much better case for free market ideals and in a way that appeals to the mainstream IMHO.
97Wildfire 1 year ago
Should have used the Christopher Hurt version, it is SOOOOO Much better. This reader sounds like he is being flippant.
progressxoverdue 1 year ago
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hey i know george bush was a wishy washy cnservative but what i do know he defended was a completely deregulated system of doin business.infact when the market is spo deregulated it only takes a couple of yrs, less than a decade, for it to fold nd crumble within itself.no deregulation system has ever been known to support itself, they always crumble under financial crises or wars.
madscientistify 1 year ago
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hey i know george bush was a wishy washy cnservative but what i do know he defended was a completely deregulated system of doin business.infact when the market is spo deregulated it only takes a couple of yrs, less than a decade, for it to fold nd crumble within itself.no deregulation system has ever been known to support itself, they always crumble under financial crises or wars.
madscientistify 1 year ago
NOW SERIOUSLY, WHO ARE THE "FOOLS" MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO, JUST BCOZ AM NOT MAKING BILLIONS, DOES IT MEAN THAT AM "LAZY".MAN FUCK THIS VIDEO, THIS IS A CLASS WAR VIDEO AM WILLING TO FIGHT
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify
Hit your cap lock key, and somebody might read what you write.
Darkrunner1975 1 year ago
IT IS IMMORAL TO ASSUME THAT ONLY THOSE THAT PRODUCE CREATE MONEY.IT IS A CYCLICAL THING, U CAN PRODUCE ALL THE PRODUCTS U WANT BT WITHOUT PEOPLE WORKING TO AFFORD THE GOODS U PRODUCE, MONEY LOOSES VALUE
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify How do you make money? Rand is referring to all honest work as being productive. The janitor produces clean floors, the store clerk produces happy customers, and people like Bernie Maddoff produce nothing. They are the moochers.
Rand respected those at every economic level as long as they earned their money through honest trade.
ryanpmurphy 1 year ago
Those who believe Wealth can come from a printing press will stop creating real wealth as in food, and start printing more money instead! Real Wealth can only come from Earth not a printing press!
No amount of gold can deliver one in the day of God's anger.
13 "No servant can serve two masters at the same time. He will hate one of them and love the other. Or he will be faithful to one and dislike the other. You can't serve God and Money at the same time."
14 The Pharisees (Gov.) loved money.
Budvb 1 year ago
I laughed pretty hard when the mac popped up at 4:30
Ickeriss69 1 year ago
r people seriously out of tune wth their own personal lives just coz u have a black president??americans u all r just fucked up, seriously, i know countries in the 3rd world whose people thnk and reason better than u
madscientistify 1 year ago
no1 has anythng against money, just the people who produce that money, seriously people, r u so fuckin ignorant as o love ths video??dont u hear what ths guy is tellin u?cud u be so fckin retarded as nt 2get the message?only the trumps of ths world r useful, and u all shud work to ensure their continued happiness.
madscientistify 1 year ago
well said, the only problm is we tried ths for like 8years and all we ended up wth were housing crises, economic turmoil, incessant wars ENRON, FANNIE, oil hitting 140 dolaz a barrel, goldman sachs, george bush, dick cheney,job losses a million a month etc.seriously my fellow human beings, r u going to allow to be called shoddy,useless human beings, "nt 2carry the weight of ur misery" yet u work 3jobs to just keep up.r u gonna allow urselves to be so abused jst coz u got a black president??
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify You appear dumb. Just being honest with you.
In case you are unaware, the previous 8 years to which you refer did not represent a laissez faire economy. Not even close. You literally just listed off a series of things that government did.
The person who wrote the words in this video was not a Republican, by the way. She was an Objectivist minarchist.
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@VTAcraft well like it or not, 1 out of every7 americans live below the poverty line.these are the sort of people this video deems as shoddy, or useless, or whose personal misery shud not be taken in2 acct for reason of them not being able t create substantial amts of wealth.u r the dumb 1 if ur nt in sync wth the reality of many people on the ground
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify Excuse me, Rand's words provided a description of 2 general types of people—one a mooch and the other a thief. You here to defend mooching and thievery?
She said nothing of those living under the poverty line in the United States of America in 2010, the majority of whom are being kept down by inflation, corporatism, regulations, taxes, licenses, etc.
VTAcraft 1 year ago
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madscientistify 1 year ago
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@VTAcraft hey i know george bush was a wishy washy cnservative but what i do know he defended was a completely deregulated system of doin business.infact when the market is spo deregulated it only takes a couple of yrs, less than a decade, for it to fold nd crumble within itself.no deregulation system has ever been known to support itself, they always crumble under financial crises or wars.
madscientistify 1 year ago
@VTAcraft the people ths video is seemingly castigating are the hardest workers, those who shuffle 2 jobs just to make ends meet.who were caught in a financial turmoil, that was not of their doing, honest hard workingt coalminers who do not know anythng abt the wall street crash, yet their jobs end up suffering as a result of a few individuals overzealousness for short term profit.dude, WTF IS WRONG WTH U??
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify WHEN WE QUESTION why people live such miserable lives, idiots like u come terming it as socialism, whe we leave idiot executives self drive the markets into disaser and let it be, that gets termed as capitalism.
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify I disagree with nothing you said in this post.
You should re-listen to this and resist the urge to assume that D'Anconia is slamming poor people for being poor. He isn't. He's slamming those men who believe that they have a right to the mind of other men.
P.S. this financial turmoil to which you refer was created and catalyzed by governments violating the very principles that D'Anconia is stressing in this monologue.
You're reaching for a conflict where none exists.
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@VTAcraft hey ths is what i know.if the free market system, which this video refers to, was so almost perfectly capable of supporting itself, the majority of people would not want to reform it.all the time, even history shall dictate, when free mkt was left to its own devices, we either had the slave trade, the 1897 crash, the 1907 crash, the the 1929 crash, the 2007 crash.all that was as a result of a completely deregulated market.
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify That logic embarrassingly bad. Stating that free markets are obviously bad because certain people want to "reform" them is the logical equivalent of stating that a girl is a whore because certain people want to rape her. Not her fault.
I'm not going to give you a full history lesson on youtube but suffice it to say that those things you referred to were mostly either caused or sustained by govt. action (eg fiat currency policies, fugitive slave laws, etc).
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@VTAcraft hey i did nt say free markets are bad.please get my point, i said UNREGULATED FREE MARKETS, THAT THIS VIDEO IS PROMOTING, IS BAD
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify You cannot be serious.
An "unregulated free market" is redundant; a "regulated free market" is an oximoron... by definition.
You might as well say that men with XY chromosomes are bad while men with XX chromosomes are bad. lol
You literally just said that free markets are good except for the ones that are free. And free markets are bad except for the ones that aren't free. lol.
really?
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@VTAcraft ***Men with XX chromosomes are good***
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@VTAcraft lol
Freedom21stCenturi 1 year ago
@madscientistify The 19th Century didn't represent a PERFECTLY free market society. Perfection isn't achievable. But it was much freer relative to the 20th Century, and look at the 20th Century.... decade long depressions instead of 2 year recessions; huge wars; millions of people utterly dependent on the tit of the state and never able to work their way out of poverty; huge bailouts and special favors for the politically connected rich elite.
Sorry, I think I'll take my chances with freedom.
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@VTAcraft hey no ur raising an argument against urself, ur contradicting ur position
madscientistify 1 year ago
@madscientistify What are you talking about? Contradicting what? It's not enough just to state it.
VTAcraft 1 year ago
@madscientistify Slaves are completely counter to a free market, if slavery exists in a free market, it ceases to be a free market. A slave cannot trade his labor for goods. When a government protects the institution of slavery that is a form of economic regulation.
these crashes did not occur in deregulated markets, there has always been regulation, especially the most recent. Bush was no free market advocate, and in fact expanded bank regulations more than most of his predecessors.
ryanpmurphy 1 year ago
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@VTAcraft WHEN WE QUESTION why people live such miserable lives, idiots like u come terming it as socialism, whe we leave idiot executives self drive the markets into disaser and let it be, that gets termed as capitalism.
madscientistify 1 year ago
God bless you for your ayn rand uploads.
m4nikm4ti 1 year ago
Any tool used by evil men, becomes an evil tool. Any tool in the hands of righteous men becomes a tool for good.
rollsthepaul 1 year ago 35
@rollsthepaul wow thanks man u just cleared a lot up for me... be looking for pro from inglewood
QuotaPBaby 1 year ago
@rollsthepaul Meaning that we are the root of all evil, am I right?
OSCAR7893 10 months ago
@OSCAR7893 Our world is controlled by psychopaths. Money is used to keep the slaves in line and to concentrate power, in the hands of a few. Why should I have to pay for anything, on a planet I was born on? The famous quote of Christianity is "The love of money is the root of all evil". We are forced to use money by a corrupt system that is concerned with power and control and not peace and love. Evil men love money and lust after it and when they have it, they move on to power.
rollsthepaul 10 months ago
@rollsthepaul I definitely agree with you
OSCAR7893 10 months ago
@rollsthepaul asked: "Why should I have to pay for anything, on a planet I was born on?"
Because forcing other people to produce for you is the enslavement you pretend to disavow.
usmcbrat2 9 months ago 19
@rollsthepaul
But the tool "money" makes righteous men evil.
And there will never be enough money for everyone
Nonterastor 4 months ago
@Nonterastor Money doesn't make all righteous men evil, thus your absolute statement is false. Your second statement is also false because some people are satisfied with the money they have.
ElJefer 2 months ago
@ElJefer
My second statement was:"And there will never be enough money for everyone",what i meant was,there is not enough money in the world to bail all the nations out,even if every citizen,gives ALL his money.
The reason for that is something called "interest".
You may want to watch this video: /watch?v=AgKFLk9xffA
Its the best for english-speaking people,i think.
Just let me know,what you think.
Nonterastor 2 months ago
The love of money is the root of all evil. Those in charge love money and once they have money they want power and control. These are men who have a reptilian brain, fully in control of them. Our world will not be free until there is no money. The use of money is a perfection of left brain beings. The left brain connects us to our body and the right brain, to the universe.Money makes absolute sense to left brain reasoning.Those that will enter 4th density, will be those connected to right brain.
rollsthepaul 1 year ago
i do not think this does apply to todays money, created out of thin air in amounts needed at the moment, it's has no real value anymore.
ask yourself why they used gold as a currency in atlas shrugged
myztic123 1 year ago
Money is not the root of evil but part of the tools that those who use it for there own selfish gain. Money is a simple object that we use to obtain that which we wish be it for good or for our own wishes.
In my mind Fiat currency has no true value at all only that who control use to control.
rh1507 1 year ago
@rh1507 "be it for good or for our own wishes"
This is the root of all evil. Masochistic altruism that defines good as something that does not benefit you and describes evil as that which does benefit you.
HamsterFueledRocket 1 year ago
4:47 Einstein was a rabid socialist btw.
selfrealizedexile 1 year ago
If this is supposed to be a passage from Atlas Shrugged, it must be a rather stale book. Does she have characters subsitute for her every other page in long speeches?
selfrealizedexile 1 year ago
Money is NOT the root of all evil ! The LOVE of money is the root of all evil
dmhappy2777 1 year ago
Money should be viewed as a reward rather then an objective
timmit59 1 year ago
@timmit59 Value is an objective, money is a value.
MrYakushi12345 1 year ago
Money isn't goods, it only represents goods. Unless you are producing goods (or providing an honest service that people will trade for goods), your money isn't honest. The love of money is evil because it causes people to seek money in dishonest ways. The love of producing goods or providing an honest service is not evil, even though it would lead to the accumulation of lots of money. If your goal is only to get money you will never be satisfied, money is a result of producing and providing
timmit59 1 year ago
1 Timothy 6:10 "Fort the LOVE of money is the root of all evil..."
Nice strawman argument LibertyPen
thomaserossi 1 year ago
@thomaserossi Popular "knowledge" has held that the Bible verse says that money itself is the root of all evil. Wrong, yes, but a popular idea. Rand was using this thought, to point out the real meaning of money.
216trixie 1 year ago
@thomaserossi @thomaserossi "Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you..."
Yeah...Rand covered that too. Plus a lot of people say that money is the root of all evil, ignoring the context so it really isn't a strawman... Maybe you should actually pay attention to the speech before you criticize it.
theInversion99 1 year ago
This entire argument is a straw man, because the Bible does not say that money is the root of evil... it says the LOVE OF money is.
"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Now, go make another argument.
shueevon 1 year ago
@shueevon Define "love of money", then we can discuss whether it is indeed the root of all evil.
TheLegalImmigrant05 1 year ago
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@TheLegalImmigrant05 Simply put, I would define "the love of money" as greed. To take it a step further, I would characterize it as putting one's faith in the things of this world. Regarding your offer to "discuss whether it is indeed the root of all evil", there is no discussion, as the word of God is not open for debate.
shueevon 1 year ago
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shueevon 1 year ago
@shueevon if you read the bible it really says evil is in something like that yes.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
WRONG PICTURES!!
Paper isn't money, money is silver
MoneyIsSilver 1 year ago
fiat money is evil! inflation is a tax! involuntary taxation is theft!
redrajani 1 year ago
When you love money more than anything or anyone or God, you are tapping into the root of every vice and evil persuasion that exists in humanity
paticakoos 1 year ago
Tthe Love of money is the root of all evil is the correct saying
paticakoos 1 year ago 2
The root of all evil is the bankers who control the money!
alandufour 1 year ago
i love this speech,ive reread it like three times,and have looked for it on yt before,thanks for putting this up,its going to my favs
isfahelww 1 year ago
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson
TheUSVET 1 year ago
@TheUSVET I believe Thomas Jefferson said something along those lines about a central bank indeed, but that particular quote is bogus.
Look up, for instance, the word "deflation" in an etymology dictionary. That word was first used in the late 19th century, and only applied to currency in the 20th century!
"Corporation" was also applied too broadly back then. It applied to any association of people that had a legal existence. Marriage was a corporation for instance.
picapauengracado 1 year ago
@TheUSVET Not only has that quote been manipulated by someone to stupid to write in old English, but it makes no sense. I can see why a central bank would want to inflate the currency (ie. print money), but deflate?! And why would a central bank first inflate and _then_ deflate? Why do corporations grow around such a central bank, and not other forms of institution? Won't the central bank share money with the army, government, etc too?
picapauengracado 1 year ago
This is a great speech. It's a shame that this guy's voice is so annoying.
MarkCancellieri 1 year ago
@MarkCancellieri No kidding. ick!
82compoundw 1 year ago
@MarkCancellieri There is a version of this book read by Christopher Hurt which is phenomenal. Much better than this guy.
progressxoverdue 1 year ago
That video is a big big lie for this philosophy of money equals work was true before the introduction of income tax...
Now with income tax we receive only HALF what we are worth, here in Ontario we have less than 47 cents left on each dollar we work for, which means some people loving money without earning it through labour steals from us, which means we are ROBBED workers!!
THey should create a more sinister video about the real life value of work!!! bah!
godbeliever72 1 year ago
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Frickin classic! Love this channel.
pinegrove33 1 year ago
I believe the phrase is "the love of money is the root of all evil". Money is not evil. Wanting money is not evil. Loving money above God, live and your fellow man is what is the root of evil.
bsabruzzo 1 year ago
@bsabruzzo If wanting money is not evil, then why loving it instead make it evil?
Besides you're phrasing I think you mean that loving money above you're morals is evil, which I would agree (that is if your morals aren't corrupt).
GeminiK 1 year ago
@GeminiK That's what I'm saying: loving money above God and life and others. If you care for money and are willing to sacrifice a person or life or God, then that begats evil. Just wanting money isn't bad, especially if you hold life and others and such as more important.
bsabruzzo 1 year ago
too much respect for money like i said its an abstraction we should be able to control it by now.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
evil is also defined by religions as basically money but that is not important. Money is evil yes. Everyone should just help eachother for free we should be able to function. No one like the money system... No one likes capitalism they just think its less worse than the alternatives. just because capitalism is better dosnt mean it is not shitty.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
@AEVautomatic I like Capitalism… and not just because I like socialism worse, but because Capitalism is just. Capitalism is the ONLY moral system.
You clearly have a lot more to learn.
progressxoverdue 1 year ago
@progressxoverdue You have a lot more to learn. The capitalist system is not perfect, and its totally rediculous to claim that it is.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
@progressxoverdue Also saying it is the only ethical system is a false dichotomy. You dont know every possible arrangments of all possible fiscal systems.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
money is an abstraction its not even real. We should change any numbers we like to improve things. There is no reason we can't do this.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
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@AEVautomatic "money is an abstraction its not even real. We should change any numbers we like to improve things. There is no reason we can't do this."?
hahahahahahahah, Oh really!? so most of mankind's history has been spent in abject poverty because we just never thought to print bills with bigger numbers on them??? Ohh god, this is great news!
progressxoverdue 1 year ago
@AEVautomatic abstraction contingent on what is produced, so, no, or else why not say all dollars are actually worth a trillion
Spalg 1 year ago
@Spalg because that would be a harmfull manipulation. You should only interviene in markets if what you do will be worthwhile. Makeing every dollar worth 1 trillion will cause too much inflation. It would be idiotic to make every dollar worth 1 trillion.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
@AEVautomatic Indeed, hence your ideas are idiotic.
Spalg 1 year ago
@Spalg no your idea is idiotic. I said we should minupulate money in any way we can that makes things better. "better" bettter" better" better means "not worse." your idea makes things worse so you dont do that. Don't misquote me again. If you are not more intellectual i will end this pointless debate. You must respond with a valid argument that is cogent or you have lost this online debate.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
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@AEVautomatic
So then, Intervintion in markets do no harm?
"You should only interviene in markets if what you do will be worthwhile". Worthwhile to whom? You sir have to much trust. What would be "idiodic" would be to allow control over the money supply.
pensword5 1 year ago
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progressxoverdue 1 year ago
you already are doing it. If we only spent the GDP or "the money workers make" then we would probably be 50 years behind where we are today. From now on we will replace (money that workers make) with GDP because its less idiotic. ok???
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
@AEVautomatic You're quite belligerent.
Spalg 1 year ago
also money is made other ways then the 1 way you claim.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago