RE: RE: Deep Thoughts From an Intellectual Lightweight

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[YouSpamTard]

Cro-Magnon man was a socialist culture, at least somewhat socialized. It is because they acquired communication and shared thoughts that they on and survived, while Neanderthal, more suited for the environment than Cro-Mangnon man, died out.

If a cave man says hey, I know how to make fire, he shared it with the community not expecting anything other than help to make fire. Another says they know where wood is so they all gathered wood and they all were able to survive the climate. Together.

[Guncriminal]

Socialist != socialised.

It's one thing to live with others for the benefit of mutual gain; it's something else to be politically enslaved by or be made to live solely for the sake of those others.

[YouSpamTard]

Yes, that is correct, but same goes for capaltism. If one guy owns the beef ranch and know meat is better food than corn, and hold the rest of the community hostage because he has the goods worth something, then culture, and culture growth quickly dies, society quickly dies and next thing you know, we have the fall of the great Roman empire, or the fall of the U.S.A, or consider mankind is just about global now, the fall of mankind.

[Guncriminal]

If one guy owns a beef ranch, someone else should be able to open their own without hindrance. You are not holding society to ransom merely by posessing something of value. Labour, in general, has a value. However I bet you'd object to the notion that witholding your labour was "holding society to ransom."

Do you support a ban on strikes or slavery? I should hope not.

Neither the fall of the Roman empire nor current crisis have anything to do with what you've described.

[YouSpamTard]

It all boils down to greed and simply what's right and what's wrong. If a person has greed to manipulate, the cattle rancher in my example, then that means less and less for the others. He lives in a mansion his workers built, and the workers live 10 people per shack. This is capitalism. Its fine at first, because it causes growth that is healthy, but when it grows to big, it will self implode. Thus the bail out. A system that was a mom and pop store is now wall street in the name of capitalism

[Guncriminal]

The quantity of wealth isn't static, so you can't really make the argument that richness for some automatically means poverty for others. This is old and long-refuted argument.

As for the bailout, I'm sorry but I don't know where you're getting this information from. The recent crash had nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with the government manipulating the money supply, just as it did last time - if anything, the bailout was a direct contradiction to capitalism.

[Darganot]

"Being right is not a popularity contest"

-Best statement I've heard on YT in a long time.

[FlowCell]

If TF has proven anything, it's that people have adopted atheism and evolution because of group think, not because of enlightened reasoning. Clearly we have not yet escaped out tribal tendencies on youtube.

[franzpolak]

rights are a western luxury. compulsory sacrifice is a societal imperative. your life belongs to the state, guncriminal. SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO ME!

[davisfleetwood]

help me ! I need to impeach SCOTUS

[YouSpamTard]

Huah? LoL. I got a friend that majored in economics. I have had sit down discussion with him. At the end of the day, no one knows shit. He described to me the massive complexity of all that he had to learn, thus in my mind, it is this very thing that makes it all a load of shit. In my mind, it all has to do with greed. People want and desire, more than a particular culture can provide, so they seek ways to take from others what they do not deserve and manipulate them to their selfish advantage.

[fringeelements]

Remember that the US economy is extremely statist. It's a cycle:

1. Growth

2. Losers lobby the state for "regulations"

3. State imposes "regulations", which causes a misallocation of resources

4. Eventually misallocations must be reallocated along productive lines. This means firing unproductive workers, thus freeing up the resources to start new, sustainable industries and careers.

5. Instead of this being allowed to happen, the state uses the crisis to justify more "regulation"

Repeat.

[fringeelements]

First, "cultural growth" is a meaningless term invented to short-circuit rational argumentation. "I don't have an actual argument, so I'll blather about 'culture'".

The "poor person" is being paid the negotiated value of his labor, which employers compete for.

If he's worth the investment to learn medicine, he can take loans, or a Uni may even invest in him (scholarship). If he's not worth it, then the only entity that would waste the resources of others to "educate" him would be the state.

[fringeelements]

Really? Are we still doing this?

This is the myth of the "free market monopoly". Standard Oil was kicking butt in the oil industry, their workers were the best paid in the industry, prices were falling all the time, and so their competitors bribed some economists to tell tall tales about Standard Oil being a "monopoly". When Standard Oil was broken up, their market share had actually been falling.

Monopoly originally meant a state-enforced single producer of something, hence the "pol".

[fringeelements]

Wow, this is some extreme stupidity. First, remember what prices and wages are. An employer can't just pay his laborers any wage he wants, learn why this is using google searches.

A state-funded bailout involves a state. People who are pro-freedom oppose the state. You clearly support the state. It seems as if you are literally just restating what you were told in the mandatory 12-year state camps. (Even "private" schools must be state-approved).

[YouSpamTard]

A math teacher once said never make math to complicated, This is why I made the rancher and crop grower analogy in a small community. We have labor and goods. Supply and demand. When the wealth becomes skewed to mega rich and mega poor, it is simply unhealthy for the community and it's cultural growth How can the poor study medicine if he is a slave to his labor for the rancher? How can he buy property to compete with the rancher? Most Ceo's know nothing, but how to manipulate the system.