Felix the Cat and Capitalist Competition 1 of 2

Felix the cat teaches us about the productive innovations driven by capitalist competition.

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[topicalone]

Where do you find these cartoons?

[HebaruSan]

What about attacking competition directly? Aren't monopolies, cartels and trusts, government regulation, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and the like are all options instead of or in addition to increasing productivity? Anything that makes it harder or impossible to compete with a particular capitalist, on a permanent basis.

[MaoistRebelNews2]

@brendanmcooney I highly recommend the third one, its much better. They dump the conspiracy and use science instead. From an anti-capitalist stand point I highly recommend it.

[brendanmcooney]

@shady2oo7 The first two films were so wildly incoherent that I can't imagine forcing myself to sit through a third one.

[shady2oo7]

@shady2oo7 Cont. (FckYouTube for making me remove punctuation to try to fit your stupid max character count) Anyways yeah he's 95 and in great shape...he's full of knowledge. Anyways, I'll check your video out but you should definitely look into it.

[shady2oo7]

@brendanmcooney Theres a 3rd Zeitgeist & its the best one came out this year but Jacque Frescos random rants/video's about problem/solution are the best, he even was in a recent video released 2 days ago at the Occupy Miami Protests Anyways you should check out the 3rd movie (He wanna make another one that dives further 2 help imagine what the world would be like Also, I dont agree w/ everything he says but give some respect he's smart as hell & ought to be...hes been on this earth for 95 years.

[GodlessInfinity]

@brendanmcooney Most people have black and white thinking and quickly reduce issues like this into a false dichotomy, so if they like Zeitgeist and you debunk it, then by their reasoning it must mean that you're endorsing the status quo.

[GodlessInfinity]

By eliminating labor, you can lower the cost and pass the savings on to the customer, but you also leave a lot of people with no income. By shipping production over seas and exploiting people's desperation, you can pay people slave wages and pass the savings on to the customer, but then even more jobs are lost. If you import all your goods from other producers where they are cheapest, you can save more still, but you cut out the entire supply chain.

Ah Capitalism, welcome to corporatocracy.

[brendanmcooney]

@boumar19721972 Where did I say America needed to continue on it's current path? Since when did critiquing a phony-excuse for political theory like Zeitgeist equate to endorsement of the status quo?

[boumar19721972]

@brendanmcooney Ok ok I get it. You know what? America just need to continue on the path it's going and you'll see what is going to happen.

[brendanmcooney]

@boumar19721972. You don't understand. I'm not brainwashed by the rich to criticize Zeitgeist. (that's not even way ideology works: see my vid "manufacturing consent") I have a better critique of our society than Zeitgeist, and a better solution. I think Zeitgeist's arguments are full of bourgeois ideology, are self-contradicting, are incoherent, and are childish. Even the term "monetary system" to describe our economy is problematic. Why not just say "capitalism"? And yes I've seen both movies.

[boumar19721972]

@brendanmcooney Self deception is a strong thing. A resource based economy would be a better system but the rich people with lots of money to pay servants don't want it so they implant the ideas in our heads that the monetary system is the only way. A system of reward. I use that system on my dogs. But I guess we're not civilized enough so we need to treat people like animals in a system of reward and punishment. I think you din't understand that movie. Not the first one but the second one.