jajajaja good clip but cheap ideas, keep trying. Anticapitalism is not about neglecting every act of consume but to do it in a responsible and conscious way:
consumer-capitalist: why have only one car when i can buy 3, so everyone sees how rich i am...also why walk to the market next block when i can get there in my car so everybody see me?
eco-concious: i have this one car for when im traveling far with my family, it´s cheap, safe and when im not using it I walk, take bus or bicycle...
@ravenwitch1 and no...it´s not socialism, it is called “sustentability systems” where the economy is not bases on the whims of some group at the top but on RATIONAL and quantified measures of natural resources available in a region. Capitalism ISN´T WORKING ANYMORE
Yes, because capitalism is the only system that would allow for the existence of things like soy milk and So Delicious soy "ice cream", cameras and other gadgets, etc. Wow...
What ordinary people don't realize is that it's corporations that want you to think capitalism makes all of this possible. They don't want anyone to realize that we could do it under socialism, too, and ordinary people would have MORE consumer goods and power.
@kimberlily1983 Under a socialist system, the incentive to produce crap products that last a fraction of the time they should would also disappear. Once the profit incentive disappears, the humane and environmental interests can take center stage.
@kimberlily1983 Good one. Under a socialist system, the individual has no power to freely exchange and engage with others. Under a socialist system, the individual is merely a tool to be used to help the "greater good." And you're fucking delusional if you think socialism is what promotes quality products and services and not capitalism. Wake the fuck up and stop being a socialist moron. Under a free market society (which we do NOT have), profit motive is what drives innovation and efficiency.
@pinkkfloydd Profit motive drives... the search for profits. That's achieved through cutting costs, expanding markets, etc. Lowering wages, lowering the quality of goods, cheating people. That's the reality of your beautiful free market capitalism. You're right, it doesn't remain "free" for long: because it can't. It gets controlled by fewer and fewer people as time goes on, making it more difficult for the poor to join the ranks of the exploiters (for those who want to).
capitalism is a system of resource control that allows a small group of people to hoard more than their share of land and other material resources, usually acquired via abuse and violence, (i.e. stealing indigenous homelands, slavery profits, or other labor exploitation, raping and destroying the environment), and then forcing others into servitude in order to get access to a share... no one by rights deserves more than their share of anything on this earth. only abusers buy into this mentality.
Militarism is the most destructive invention of our species. Communism/Socialism - more successful than any messianic ideology of collectivism invented prior to the economic superstitions of radical egalitarian death cults and Police States. These provided the ultimate intellectual cover for militarism's protection racket for the last 150 years. yviva, tell your economically illiterate delusions to dead people in mass graves.
Nobody can force you to buy or do anything except a government. It is a legal monopoly of force designed to kill people by extorting payment from willing weak minded people who then have to beg to it in order to receive its services in return.
@yviva You're a fucking moron because that is not capitalism. AT ALL. That is corporatism sponsored by GOVERNMENT. Any libertarian/free market capitalist abhors use of force and aggression, so don't attribute capitalism with the atrocities committed by government backed special interests groups. And what is someone's "share of anything on this earth." People deserve what they work for and earned. It is NOT a right to steal from the rich just because you're jealous.
hey, if the government wasn't a tool of the capitalist powers and committing massive acts of aggression both around the world & domestically to further their own economic ends, the capitalists would be doing it with private militias. same story.
yes, i believe that as we are all born on to this earth equally no one has the right to claim that they own pieces of the earth and then force others to pay for the right to live on a piece of this earth. that is a capitalist trick.
@yviva No it's not. You really don't understand what capitalism is apparently. For some weird reason, you think capitalism and anarchy are one in the same. You think that the government is absent in a free market society. The government would have three roles regarding the economy: 1)Prevent the use of aggression and force 2)To enforce contracts that are made 3) To enforce antifraud laws.
Private militias are not a part of free market capitalism because THAT IS A USE OF FORCE.
@yviva And yes, we are born equally, but that does not guarantee us equal outcome, and nor should it. You should get what you have earned through hard work. No one has the right to steal land from others, that is a use of force, which is not allowed in a libertarian, free-market society. But if someone buys a piece a land from someone and uses it to make profit by consumers who are willing to pay for whatever services the landowner is providing, then good for him. Capitalism =/= anarchy.
flawed reasoning. in a communal society people could barer for and share goods. no one would have to accumulate more and more material possessions to have their needs or desires met.
you fucking retard. barter is not fundamentally different from any other exchange involving a commonly valued item which breaks the coincidence of wants (money)
yeah, it's a decent critique of hypocritical college kids, but not of any serious ideas, cause it has none of it's own. superficiality making fun of superficiality isn't funny, it's sad.
Should've came with the subtitle: "Brought to you by Smug Conservative Dickwads of America Inc.". Don't get me wrong though, I dislike the people this vid skewers too.
Nice straw man critique. Yes it does make fun of many liberal college students with very naive ideas about the world, but you haven't addressed the actual arguments against capitalism or its consequences.
It isn't exactly hypocritical to participate in a capitalist society even if you're against it. For example, in order to make a living, you need transportation, and a bike is a less wasteful and cheaper solution than a car.
Thing is, unlike other schools of libertarian thought, the government wouldn't care about a bunch of communists/socialists/whatever you prefer getting together and being socialist -being that they by definition wouldn't be doing anything profitable enough to confiscate/tax- thus attacking their hypocrisy is a valid point.
oh god that was awesome! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS. Ah yes and while everyone is at it, read "Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter." Stop thinking you're special
Dude, your just as much of a geek as the people you critize, come on admit it. Oh OH, there's this really cool attidtude coming out right now, and nobody knows it's cool yet... quick before it becomes a target for ridicule!!!!
Laissez-Faire Capitalism grants Primacy to Productivity(a Virtue), Production and the Producer. ie) Producerism (the Cause)
What you are witnessing here is a parody on consumerism(an Effect)- Nothing to do with Capitalism.
*Classic reversal of the Law of Causality*
(Sorry to be a 'lexic-stickler' folks, but I'm concerned with the youth coming up the pipe getting a wrong First-Principle Definition. ie.How we got in such a mess in the first place) -LFC-
yeah, I don't know about your point exactly. Sure, lots of hypocrites out there, but buying things with money is not the same thing as implicitly endorsing big business, free market economics. Whatever. Doesn't matter. It's just more blah blah blah blah blah
There is also a YouTube video that purports to show what it looks like when anti-consumerism is taken to its logical conclusion, and what happens when the anti-consumerist practices what he preaches. That video is bureaucrash's "Consume Nothing Day."
yeah, just replace "it's logical conclusion" with "a ridiculous exaggeration." Myself, I don't celebrate consumerism or anti consumerism, as both celebrations seem kind of retarded, but I can see how people get fed up with all of the advertising and image and all and wish to say "you don't have to buy into it all, to be happy." That makes some sense to me.
One can both (1) refrain from buying into it all and going on wasteful spending sprees, and (2) refrain from trying to guilt-trip other adults for how they spend their money. We hear it said that people go overboard in their spending. Can it not be said that Adbusters often goes overboard in portraying commercialism as depraved?
I think this video does a great job at describing the new liberal *cough*socialist*cough* moment that frightens to tie down the free market and create even bigger gub'mint.
Let us progress a systemization of our labor forces that does not recognize individual or the enviroment.. Mankind!
Let us use an ancient systemization that has not been able to adapt to NEW REALITIES. The only reason we keep an inferior system is because people at the top are ruthless, they had to look at life and the continuation of it as a quick resource to exploit in order to be competitive.
People who legitimize this system are not so much rational individuals as they are lemmings .
Oh, anti-capitalists come up with all sorts of wacky things. One of them is "anarcho-syndicalism." Basically, the whole world decides to live in socialist communes where people farm organic vegetables all day. This is different from State Socialism in that no government forces anyone to be like this; people just "finally decide to be moral."
Do you mean that capitalism tends to be more practical than socialism, but that socialism tends to be more morally-minded than capitalism? Do you mean that capitalism is sort of a necessary evil, but that socialism is preferable when- and wherever it can work?
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So because I cant build a bike on my own, (meaning I have to buy one) then that means I love capitalism? It may mean that I love bikes but that doesn't mean I love the system in which I obtain that bike. The logic of this video is retarded.
"Thats your problem" summarizes the capitalist mentality quite nicely. If the reality of my situation inhibits me from doing such things (having the free time, the resources, the money or the knowledge to build bikes), then the whole idea of doing such a thing is just that; an idea.
Yeah, the same way that the light bulb was "just an idea", or cars were "just an idea".
And whats wrong with it being your problem, if you can't feed yourself, it is YOUR PROBLEM. If it werent, you wouldn't be begging other people to support YOU.
The people who invented the light bulb & the car had the free time, the resources, the money and the knowledge to do such. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers (to cite more contemporary inventors of each example you gave), all had these things going for them.
"if you can't feed yourself, it is YOUR PROBLEM." But did I cause this problem? Does a child born into poor circumstances choose their lot? Or is it "their problem"? Like I said, the capitalist mentality is morally depraved.
"They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness" --John Milton.
No, it's their parents fault for being irresponsible unthinking dopes who decide to have children when they know they arent in a position to do so,and also they make their situation worse. And its the parents fault for probably voting in or not doing anything about the politicians that probably inhibit great thinkiers and men like Ford,Edison, etc, that produce great wealth and technology that improve our lives.
Were the Americans of the mid-late 1930's, who had children, dopes? Could they foresee the coming depression? And the intelligentsia has always been full of "great thinkers", Ivy League schools are grooming grounds for the future leaders and owners of America, and unless you live with your head in the sand, you'd recognize that the population is not even allowed in the political arena, for reasons that "great thinkers" like James Madison pointed out when the country was founded.
When the free market Economist Ludwig Von Mises was told by a friend(way before the depression) that his ideas had already won, that most of the major countries had already adopted them to some extent. He told his friend that he was wrong, he said, if you want to see the future look at what they teach at the Universities, these ideas were statist socialist ideas. The same ideas that were tought at those Ive league schools that informed all our politicians.
When you decide to regulate the minds of people that produce don't get upset when you face a "slight" depression. TANSTAAFL!
Political power only empowers the particular politicians that get elected, if you want to give people power it isnt done by letting them in the political process so they can vote in more statist that will just take away their freedom, its done by giving people economic freedom to advance their lives. That will do more than electing people from the ghetto,inner city,etc
I had a longer post, but accidentally hit the "Discard" button.
1) What countries adopted Mises' ideas?
2) The same ivy league universities that teach "statist socialist" economics also teach Austrian economics (Menger, Mises, Hayek, etc.). Harvard, for example, requires reading of the Austrian school in at least 1 course.
When I say his ideas I dont mean that people in the goverment saw his ideas and decided to adopt them. I mean that in the late 19th and early 20th century many countries,for example, were on the gold standard,which is an idea that Mises advocated. And the time Im talking about Mises and Hayek were JUST developing their ideas, they weren't even known.
pirate chomsky audio lectures. Rent videos from a library, Pirate the rest. Steal food from the super market. and buy only one bike. A bikes a bike. Thats my answer to that. Oh and buy one tape for your video and reuse it after loading it onto your computer (i assume it's a mac).
Funny video. Good point, as there are folks I know who decry capitalism/consumerism but then buy a bunch of junk anyway. However, I still think that it is possible to truly point out the negative effects of free market capitalism, and build local systems of ecnomics and culture without buying a bunch of soy milk. Buy local people, that's the key.
I recall an area of Brooklyn Williamsburg. Everyone there bought their clothes second hand and dressed in the alternative style because they rejected homogenous pop culture styles. They seemed to forget they all looked exactly the same and were similarly following the crowd, just a different crowd. I think the drugs are to blame.
I remember a South Park Elisode wher a hippy said something like "Imagine a place where people live together and do things for eachother in exchange for goods and services..." and I thought, "That's just normal capitolism".
Will the milk you drink at least be raw organic milk from cows that have not been given any antibiotics or hooked up to any machines in factory farms?
"Noam Chomsky hates capitalism too. I need to buy more Chomsky books."
Jaluzaga 7 months ago
jajajaja good clip but cheap ideas, keep trying. Anticapitalism is not about neglecting every act of consume but to do it in a responsible and conscious way:
consumer-capitalist: why have only one car when i can buy 3, so everyone sees how rich i am...also why walk to the market next block when i can get there in my car so everybody see me?
eco-concious: i have this one car for when im traveling far with my family, it´s cheap, safe and when im not using it I walk, take bus or bicycle...
ravenwitch1 8 months ago
@ravenwitch1 and no...it´s not socialism, it is called “sustentability systems” where the economy is not bases on the whims of some group at the top but on RATIONAL and quantified measures of natural resources available in a region. Capitalism ISN´T WORKING ANYMORE
ravenwitch1 8 months ago
I love this video!!!!
Coteincdr 11 months ago
Yes, because capitalism is the only system that would allow for the existence of things like soy milk and So Delicious soy "ice cream", cameras and other gadgets, etc. Wow...
What ordinary people don't realize is that it's corporations that want you to think capitalism makes all of this possible. They don't want anyone to realize that we could do it under socialism, too, and ordinary people would have MORE consumer goods and power.
kimberlily1983 1 year ago
@kimberlily1983 Under a socialist system, the incentive to produce crap products that last a fraction of the time they should would also disappear. Once the profit incentive disappears, the humane and environmental interests can take center stage.
kimberlily1983 1 year ago
@kimberlily1983 Good one. Under a socialist system, the individual has no power to freely exchange and engage with others. Under a socialist system, the individual is merely a tool to be used to help the "greater good." And you're fucking delusional if you think socialism is what promotes quality products and services and not capitalism. Wake the fuck up and stop being a socialist moron. Under a free market society (which we do NOT have), profit motive is what drives innovation and efficiency.
pinkkfloydd 1 year ago
@pinkkfloydd Profit motive drives... the search for profits. That's achieved through cutting costs, expanding markets, etc. Lowering wages, lowering the quality of goods, cheating people. That's the reality of your beautiful free market capitalism. You're right, it doesn't remain "free" for long: because it can't. It gets controlled by fewer and fewer people as time goes on, making it more difficult for the poor to join the ranks of the exploiters (for those who want to).
kimberlily1983 1 year ago
capitalism is a system of resource control that allows a small group of people to hoard more than their share of land and other material resources, usually acquired via abuse and violence, (i.e. stealing indigenous homelands, slavery profits, or other labor exploitation, raping and destroying the environment), and then forcing others into servitude in order to get access to a share... no one by rights deserves more than their share of anything on this earth. only abusers buy into this mentality.
yviva 2 years ago
Militarism is the most destructive invention of our species. Communism/Socialism - more successful than any messianic ideology of collectivism invented prior to the economic superstitions of radical egalitarian death cults and Police States. These provided the ultimate intellectual cover for militarism's protection racket for the last 150 years. yviva, tell your economically illiterate delusions to dead people in mass graves.
marcusbarr 1 year ago
Nobody can force you to buy or do anything except a government. It is a legal monopoly of force designed to kill people by extorting payment from willing weak minded people who then have to beg to it in order to receive its services in return.
marcusbarr 1 year ago
@yviva You're a fucking moron because that is not capitalism. AT ALL. That is corporatism sponsored by GOVERNMENT. Any libertarian/free market capitalist abhors use of force and aggression, so don't attribute capitalism with the atrocities committed by government backed special interests groups. And what is someone's "share of anything on this earth." People deserve what they work for and earned. It is NOT a right to steal from the rich just because you're jealous.
pinkkfloydd 1 year ago
@pinkkfloydd
hey, if the government wasn't a tool of the capitalist powers and committing massive acts of aggression both around the world & domestically to further their own economic ends, the capitalists would be doing it with private militias. same story.
yes, i believe that as we are all born on to this earth equally no one has the right to claim that they own pieces of the earth and then force others to pay for the right to live on a piece of this earth. that is a capitalist trick.
yviva 1 year ago
@yviva No it's not. You really don't understand what capitalism is apparently. For some weird reason, you think capitalism and anarchy are one in the same. You think that the government is absent in a free market society. The government would have three roles regarding the economy: 1)Prevent the use of aggression and force 2)To enforce contracts that are made 3) To enforce antifraud laws.
Private militias are not a part of free market capitalism because THAT IS A USE OF FORCE.
pinkkfloydd 1 year ago
@yviva And yes, we are born equally, but that does not guarantee us equal outcome, and nor should it. You should get what you have earned through hard work. No one has the right to steal land from others, that is a use of force, which is not allowed in a libertarian, free-market society. But if someone buys a piece a land from someone and uses it to make profit by consumers who are willing to pay for whatever services the landowner is providing, then good for him. Capitalism =/= anarchy.
pinkkfloydd 1 year ago
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yviva 2 years ago
flawed reasoning. in a communal society people could barer for and share goods. no one would have to accumulate more and more material possessions to have their needs or desires met.
yviva 2 years ago
you fucking retard. barter is not fundamentally different from any other exchange involving a commonly valued item which breaks the coincidence of wants (money)
thorsmitersaw 2 years ago
@thorsmitersaw
you could use some counseling to get over the abusive way you talk to other people.
yviva 2 years ago
welcome to the internet, faggot
thorsmitersaw 2 years ago
you still need counseling.
yviva 2 years ago
@thorsmitersaw
do you always talk to women that way? or even to men? whatever... counseling asap.
yviva 2 years ago
yeah, it's a decent critique of hypocritical college kids, but not of any serious ideas, cause it has none of it's own. superficiality making fun of superficiality isn't funny, it's sad.
johnnondrowsyd 2 years ago
Should've came with the subtitle: "Brought to you by Smug Conservative Dickwads of America Inc.". Don't get me wrong though, I dislike the people this vid skewers too.
marijumanji 2 years ago
Nice straw man critique. Yes it does make fun of many liberal college students with very naive ideas about the world, but you haven't addressed the actual arguments against capitalism or its consequences.
It isn't exactly hypocritical to participate in a capitalist society even if you're against it. For example, in order to make a living, you need transportation, and a bike is a less wasteful and cheaper solution than a car.
jortylbro 3 years ago
Thing is, unlike other schools of libertarian thought, the government wouldn't care about a bunch of communists/socialists/whatever you prefer getting together and being socialist -being that they by definition wouldn't be doing anything profitable enough to confiscate/tax- thus attacking their hypocrisy is a valid point.
Shezmu 2 years ago
oh god that was awesome! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS. Ah yes and while everyone is at it, read "Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter." Stop thinking you're special
teewillis1981 3 years ago 2
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I agree fully with this. Lifestyling and branding of sustainable thinking yields nothing or is even counterproductive.
The only effective means to limit pollution and destruction of environment is by prohibitions on the nation and supernation level.
It's how we got rid of freons, DDT, sulfur emissions in Europe etc. and it worked.
Yes, it means implied rules for the market but the market suffers nothing from it. I'm capitalist but libertarians can suck it.
herrfrunck 3 years ago
If marijuana could be legalized, we would save billions on drug prohibition.
ColonelCognitional 3 years ago 9
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that's what sucks about the system. even when you fight it, you're still part of it.
Bootgrl88 3 years ago
Yay capitalism!
reneekatz 3 years ago 5
oh man that was funny! i used to be a film student and had to deal with people like that every day.
John031989 3 years ago 5
I went to a technical arts school and had to deal with them too... I feel your pain brother!
thorsmitersaw 3 years ago 4
welcome to the new world order
thepossessor 4 years ago
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Down with capitalism and the state!
oliver556 4 years ago
WARP DUDE
ADICKTED2YOU 4 years ago
Awesome video. I'm a bisexual, pot smoking, bike riding, vegetarian, indie film watching CAPITALIST.
I know it's not cool to support capitalism in hipster circles but honestly how would we piss off the establishment without it?
kidairbag 4 years ago 12
Dude, your just as much of a geek as the people you critize, come on admit it. Oh OH, there's this really cool attidtude coming out right now, and nobody knows it's cool yet... quick before it becomes a target for ridicule!!!!
restresto 4 years ago
Laissez-Faire Capitalism grants Primacy to Productivity(a Virtue), Production and the Producer. ie) Producerism (the Cause)
What you are witnessing here is a parody on consumerism(an Effect)- Nothing to do with Capitalism.
*Classic reversal of the Law of Causality*
(Sorry to be a 'lexic-stickler' folks, but I'm concerned with the youth coming up the pipe getting a wrong First-Principle Definition. ie.How we got in such a mess in the first place) -LFC-
LaissezFaireCapital 4 years ago
yeah, I don't know about your point exactly. Sure, lots of hypocrites out there, but buying things with money is not the same thing as implicitly endorsing big business, free market economics. Whatever. Doesn't matter. It's just more blah blah blah blah blah
FrankFacade 4 years ago
There is also a YouTube video that purports to show what it looks like when anti-consumerism is taken to its logical conclusion, and what happens when the anti-consumerist practices what he preaches. That video is bureaucrash's "Consume Nothing Day."
legendre007 4 years ago
yeah, just replace "it's logical conclusion" with "a ridiculous exaggeration." Myself, I don't celebrate consumerism or anti consumerism, as both celebrations seem kind of retarded, but I can see how people get fed up with all of the advertising and image and all and wish to say "you don't have to buy into it all, to be happy." That makes some sense to me.
FrankFacade 4 years ago
One can both (1) refrain from buying into it all and going on wasteful spending sprees, and (2) refrain from trying to guilt-trip other adults for how they spend their money. We hear it said that people go overboard in their spending. Can it not be said that Adbusters often goes overboard in portraying commercialism as depraved?
legendre007 4 years ago
I think this video does a great job at describing the new liberal *cough*socialist*cough* moment that frightens to tie down the free market and create even bigger gub'mint.
Shezmu 4 years ago 5
Let us progress a systemization of our labor forces that does not recognize individual or the enviroment.. Mankind!
Let us use an ancient systemization that has not been able to adapt to NEW REALITIES. The only reason we keep an inferior system is because people at the top are ruthless, they had to look at life and the continuation of it as a quick resource to exploit in order to be competitive.
People who legitimize this system are not so much rational individuals as they are lemmings .
notloz2 4 years ago
What alternative(s) to market economics do you propose?
legendre007 4 years ago 2
A welfare state. What else could it be? =/
Shezmu 4 years ago 2
Oh, anti-capitalists come up with all sorts of wacky things. One of them is "anarcho-syndicalism." Basically, the whole world decides to live in socialist communes where people farm organic vegetables all day. This is different from State Socialism in that no government forces anyone to be like this; people just "finally decide to be moral."
legendre007 4 years ago 3
Changing to anarcho-syndicalism would usher in a new dark age in every respect of the term.
snuffydoug 4 years ago
good vid
as much capitalism as needed as much socialism as possible
my opinion hughh
unbehagen1000 4 years ago
Do you mean that capitalism tends to be more practical than socialism, but that socialism tends to be more morally-minded than capitalism? Do you mean that capitalism is sort of a necessary evil, but that socialism is preferable when- and wherever it can work?
legendre007 4 years ago 2
Heard that
wkustolemymoney 4 years ago
This reminds me of the song "Hooker with a Penis" by Tool.
FeellikeDirt 4 years ago
no room for dissent in this system... OBEY
zkwaerwaivbace 4 years ago
I do love Soy ice-cream!
Harpakhrad11 4 years ago 3
Man, this cracked me up.
acidie 4 years ago 3
I can relate. :-)
legendre007 4 years ago 3
I am a capitalist but I do need cheaper pot.
Excelion333 4 years ago 4
it's funny cause it's real.
funboxcomedy 4 years ago 3
Hehe, nice points.
DJLorenzen 4 years ago 3
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So because I cant build a bike on my own, (meaning I have to buy one) then that means I love capitalism? It may mean that I love bikes but that doesn't mean I love the system in which I obtain that bike. The logic of this video is retarded.
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
Who said you cant build a bike? You can build all the bikes you want, thats why the system is great.
WarVideo 4 years ago 4
But how realistic is that? Do I have the free time, the resources, the money or the knowledge to build it?
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
Thats your problem, the solution is to advance to a situation where you can make whatever goals you want to achieve possible.
WarVideo 4 years ago 2
"Thats your problem" summarizes the capitalist mentality quite nicely. If the reality of my situation inhibits me from doing such things (having the free time, the resources, the money or the knowledge to build bikes), then the whole idea of doing such a thing is just that; an idea.
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
Yeah, the same way that the light bulb was "just an idea", or cars were "just an idea".
And whats wrong with it being your problem, if you can't feed yourself, it is YOUR PROBLEM. If it werent, you wouldn't be begging other people to support YOU.
WarVideo 4 years ago 3
The people who invented the light bulb & the car had the free time, the resources, the money and the knowledge to do such. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers (to cite more contemporary inventors of each example you gave), all had these things going for them.
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
Hah, "they had things going for them", yes the planets and the stars and all the spirits confered to make it happen.
WarVideo 4 years ago 3
"if you can't feed yourself, it is YOUR PROBLEM." But did I cause this problem? Does a child born into poor circumstances choose their lot? Or is it "their problem"? Like I said, the capitalist mentality is morally depraved.
"They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness" --John Milton.
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
No, it's their parents fault for being irresponsible unthinking dopes who decide to have children when they know they arent in a position to do so,and also they make their situation worse. And its the parents fault for probably voting in or not doing anything about the politicians that probably inhibit great thinkiers and men like Ford,Edison, etc, that produce great wealth and technology that improve our lives.
WarVideo 4 years ago 2
Were the Americans of the mid-late 1930's, who had children, dopes? Could they foresee the coming depression? And the intelligentsia has always been full of "great thinkers", Ivy League schools are grooming grounds for the future leaders and owners of America, and unless you live with your head in the sand, you'd recognize that the population is not even allowed in the political arena, for reasons that "great thinkers" like James Madison pointed out when the country was founded.
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
To answer both your assertions:
When the free market Economist Ludwig Von Mises was told by a friend(way before the depression) that his ideas had already won, that most of the major countries had already adopted them to some extent. He told his friend that he was wrong, he said, if you want to see the future look at what they teach at the Universities, these ideas were statist socialist ideas. The same ideas that were tought at those Ive league schools that informed all our politicians.
WarVideo 4 years ago 3
When you decide to regulate the minds of people that produce don't get upset when you face a "slight" depression. TANSTAAFL!
Political power only empowers the particular politicians that get elected, if you want to give people power it isnt done by letting them in the political process so they can vote in more statist that will just take away their freedom, its done by giving people economic freedom to advance their lives. That will do more than electing people from the ghetto,inner city,etc
WarVideo 4 years ago
I had a longer post, but accidentally hit the "Discard" button.
1) What countries adopted Mises' ideas?
2) The same ivy league universities that teach "statist socialist" economics also teach Austrian economics (Menger, Mises, Hayek, etc.). Harvard, for example, requires reading of the Austrian school in at least 1 course.
IntelligentHoodlum 4 years ago
When I say his ideas I dont mean that people in the goverment saw his ideas and decided to adopt them. I mean that in the late 19th and early 20th century many countries,for example, were on the gold standard,which is an idea that Mises advocated. And the time Im talking about Mises and Hayek were JUST developing their ideas, they weren't even known.
WarVideo 4 years ago 2
And how is it unrealistic? Name the law of physics that prevents me from building a bike.
WarVideo 4 years ago
Geez. SHUT UP YOU TWO.
aekimie5 3 years ago
Once typical arguments about the market being unable to provide prosperity failed, the focus shifted to anti-consumerism. Baffling and desperate.
Elhan2005 4 years ago 3
try reading a book
rockumsockum 4 years ago
Perhaps you should try reading a book of logic. I would recommend one called Atlas Shrugged.
IItothe222345helomot 4 years ago 4
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING? HAHAHA
EonM 3 years ago 2
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Capitalism, as this video shows, force us all to live using goods produced by capitalists who exploit masses of workers in the third world.
Cheesehall 4 years ago
I thought people stopped believing this nonsense aeons ago?
Elhan2005 4 years ago 5
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Really? Well... people stopped believing politicians even more time ago =D
Cheesehall 4 years ago
As they should have.
Elhan2005 4 years ago 4
Very funny,i agree with your views on Capitalism.
philipsmovies 4 years ago 2
pirate chomsky audio lectures. Rent videos from a library, Pirate the rest. Steal food from the super market. and buy only one bike. A bikes a bike. Thats my answer to that. Oh and buy one tape for your video and reuse it after loading it onto your computer (i assume it's a mac).
doctorbasic 4 years ago
awesome. hahaha
thorsmitersaw 4 years ago 3
Funny video. Good point, as there are folks I know who decry capitalism/consumerism but then buy a bunch of junk anyway. However, I still think that it is possible to truly point out the negative effects of free market capitalism, and build local systems of ecnomics and culture without buying a bunch of soy milk. Buy local people, that's the key.
thirdeyetc 4 years ago
Logical Fallacy: Tu Quoque (lat. 'You Also')
Hypocrisy does not invalidate the conclusion of an argument.
I suppose to be a "true" anti-capitalist one should starve or otherwise live like a caveman.
Logical Fallacy: False Dilemma
I could probably go on...
Excellent video, however - like the style.
Freedom is not choice!!!
tccraig 4 years ago
I think the point of the video is that the character bought into consumerism while he protested against it, therefore the hypocricy.
Vessol 4 years ago 3
This video needs to get featured more than anything.
chadagg 4 years ago 4
I agree. I really want this to go uber-viral, and become the next "Charlie the Unicorn" or next "Hotness Prevails/Worst Video Ever."
legendre007 4 years ago 2
freedom = choice = idividual right (don't God bless America, God bless Capitalism!)
PirateSamGrrr 4 years ago 7
LOL! Bravo.
poonhounds2 4 years ago 3
I am an alternative cow, and my life has meaning.
neuromonkey 4 years ago 3
I recall an area of Brooklyn Williamsburg. Everyone there bought their clothes second hand and dressed in the alternative style because they rejected homogenous pop culture styles. They seemed to forget they all looked exactly the same and were similarly following the crowd, just a different crowd. I think the drugs are to blame.
birdyb24 4 years ago 4
I remember a South Park Elisode wher a hippy said something like "Imagine a place where people live together and do things for eachother in exchange for goods and services..." and I thought, "That's just normal capitolism".
dechha1981 4 years ago 6
Being anti-capitolism and living in civilization is a bit like being anti-violence and living in the jungle.
dechha1981 4 years ago 7
Yep.
dechha1981 4 years ago 3
awesome too damn funny
karang4 4 years ago 5
But if we don't exploit cows, then cows' lives have no meaning! Soy products are evil; drink more milk!
Mathewmatic 4 years ago 4
Will the milk you drink at least be raw organic milk from cows that have not been given any antibiotics or hooked up to any machines in factory farms?
legendre007 4 years ago 2
That's something I really can't decide for myself, I'll have to go out and buy a bunch of Chomsky books to see what he thinks about it.
Mathewmatic 4 years ago 7
Awesome!
chadagg 4 years ago 4
Funny and oh so very true.
daveylp 4 years ago 4
Woo hoo I love it, too!!
marneedear 4 years ago 4
Woo hoo1
marneedear 4 years ago 3
LOL!!!!!! The scary thing is that I really do meet a lot of college students like that.
legendre007 4 years ago 5