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Helping the Poor: Analyzing a Banana Republic

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Uploaded by on Mar 20, 2008

How to help the poor without pointing the gun at everyone else... by Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, the most popular philosophy podcast on the web - www.freedomainradio.com

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  • Brilliant video, you completely changed my view of democracy!

  • @jiveturkey86 thank you so much for your very kind words!

  • The very analysis to support the finest aspests of anarchism assumes and suggests uniform and potent reaction to the problem. If 70% of people, wish good circumstances for the poor it does not follow that anywhere near that amount of public resource will reach the problem.

    To me this is why we need represention of that will by government so that it becomes potent.

    The present form of representation does not represent the will of the people.

  • Do you know how much the govt bureaucracy takes in overhead? Would you like to guess? :)

  • Out of all the people that vote for socialist governement measures, I'm fairly certain that very few of them will actually be willing to pay to help the needy in an anarchist system.

  • You may not know this, but my educational site survives entirely on donations.

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  • 75% of women don't want to go out with me Stef, what's your secret? I mean I've lost all the hair I could, but still I can only get 2 out of 3!

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  • So there's no helping the poor in a welfare society?

  • @DanteMcSparda By far the best comment on you tube in years. well done.

  • Wow. It's like I just woke up from the Matrix.

  • I like how he was like, "If you get this..!" and then waves a Bannana with marker scribbled all over it.

    To the naive eye it is a bannana with marker. To the informed eye it is a beautiful concept of how the poor would be aided in a free society.

  • It seems to me that the majority of people want someone else to help the poor. Hence the current system where people "help" the poor by robbing the rich and the unborn.

  • @Tabanese There is a video on YouTube by Kirk Camron and Ray Comfort called "Atheist's Nightmare". They claim the banana refutes all of atheism because of how it is shaped. Search for it. It is really funny and dumb.

  • @ArtinEmil I hate to be that guy but....

    I don't get it. Why is what he said an atheist nightmare? :/

    Be gentle; I'm only a noob. :P

  • For example, you could do this by providing statistics on charity that shows that charities substantially step in while the government steps out and the marginalization of the poor in fact decreases.

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