Response to Mr. Stefan Molyneux by Peter Joseph 1

Audio clip is from The Zeitgeist Movement Bi-Weekly Report. Questions answered by Mr. Peter Joseph. You can hear the full versions at:
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This particular clip was aired: 17th of June 2009.

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[musicworld01]

yeah- Stefan has no idea what he is talking about.

[sinhalaboy]

Exactly. You know I made these videos as reponse to his video. He still haven't accepted it.

[glopur0]

Without competition, there is no reason to make anything better.....

You guys need to read some Rand and some Rothbard. Your just helping the statists by confusing voluntaryism with violence.

Who is threatening us more? Wal-Mart? or the government with the military, police, and court system?????

[BreakingTheBanality]

Peter Joseph has been invited to debate / discuss differences with Stefan Molyneux but declined.

[knglerxst]

4:00 This is one problem I also saw with Stefan's review. Lying and being disingenuous is about the same to me. Modern advertising is built on misleading people. Stefan also seems to think that we make decisions inside a vacuum. You can tell he's never read much about the environment's influence on human behavior.

[knglerxst]

Stefan really showed his true colors in that review. 

[stephenrblv]

@glopur0 Ya well the whole point is this system is based on eliminating competition. That is what Capitalism seeks. Instead of competing, they seek to eliminate competitors. Once they do this like WalMart does, the quality sinks and the prices rise.

[adhocrat1]

@franks2732

then explain why my car lasts a lot longer now than my car in the 1960s?

[adhocrat1]

@franks2732

lol

You sure are gullible

[franks2732]

@adhocrat1 He is complaining rightly because there is no "real choice". People are being forced to choose. Because "choice' and the "freedom to choose" seldom if at all relate to the real world of "big business. Another example is the electric car that GM produced. They refused to "sell" the car and leased them only. The car could travel about 200km on a charge and required little or no maintenance. The car was "called in" by GM. GM has over 300,000 people willing to buy the car.

[franks2732]

@adhocrat1 The Former East Germany perfected a 20 year light bulb. It could be produced as cheap as a light bulb that would break in 3 months. The light bulb did not make it to the market place in the west as Companies refused to buy it. When asked they said 'what's the point' no will buy a new one. The "choice" of the consumer was not in effect. Given the choice the consumer would have purchased the 20 year lightbulb. Electric light companies had no willingness for that to occur. tbc

[franks2732]

@adhocrat1 "Planned obsolescence is a meaningless phrase" No it is not it is actually a deliberate market strategy taught in Business. Business now builds things that break down at point x . Where as before you used to be able to buy a lifetime warranty you can no longer do so. In the case of computers and printers etc. Companies like Sony etc has written in "code" in programs on the machine itself to force the machine to fail. The idea of quality is quaint but not a reality these days.

[adhocrat1]

I keep hoping someone will actually come up with some good response to Stefan. This isn't one.

What Stefan is saying makes sense, What you are saying doesn't.

Planned obsolescence is a meaningless phrase. Varying qualities would be more accurate. We purchase the quality of good most suited to our needs. If it is cheap, we expect it to wear out faster. Quality is the proper term. You are complaining that we have choices.

[neobudda1]

@glopur0 yes lets all read rand and watch fox news. time to evolve monkey! we the 99% demand 99% of everything!