All of your problems have something in common
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so maybe not all but a lot
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I think it's weird to think how democracy is so highly valued especially in developed nations, and yet the economic system---the system that dictates most areas of our lives---is not democratized
Couldn’t agree more -Michael
Would this be like Dutch democracy where redistribution occurs? Or like American? Because we are technically a representative democracy which is entirely separate from an individual free marketplace.
@@dailyright The economic system is authoritarian. Capital is held by the few, and they have all the power when it comes to the economy. So a supposedly democratic country where the politicians are bought out and bow down to the authoritarians in the economy. That's what's so weird about the economic system in America, for all the freedom we claim to have, the economy is authoritarian.
@@Alexander_Grant that's why the USA is not considered a democracy at all, but an oligarchy - or plutocracy.
Yes and it would also be fascinating to see what would occur in a capitalist system with no government regulation or interference
I’ve often wondered if without government bailouts and subsidies etc would provide higher wages since goods would have to actually cost what they cost to produce,
I remember reading the Polland book “Omnivores dilemma” and he outlined how much a bushel of corn actually cost to produce vs what it is sold for due to subsidies
I love when poverty is defined by the exact amount you need to survive. As if we wouldn't call someone poor just because they haven't died of poverty yet.
Well, its what is called Absolute poverty, there's also another term called Relative poverty, which is defined as the line below which people do not get access to needs deemed easy to acquire by societal standards
@@shiromusk4236in the EU relative poverty is defined as the half of the mean spending (yes, spending, not salary).
Except it's not even that, because any non-commodified or public good, any informal income that helps makes ends meet is discounted.
Yet worse, prices of products that don't at all affect an impoverished person's ability to support themselves are counted. The prices of diamonds and ferraris count towards the poverty line just like food and water.
How would you define it?
@@tlatolcalli682 I don't know what would be useful as a metric for policy decisions. To me, its a lack of security.
Telling poor people to cut costs and pinch pennies is like telling a starving man to eat less food
Especially when you consider how expensive it is to be poor
Nobody tells poor people to cut costs unless the poor are spending money on buying things they don't need. Like alcohol, drugs, expensive brands etc.
@@raccoon_from_heavenneeds go beyond physiology. if you're in a situation where you're taught worth is defined by wealth, and virtually everything, including social interactions, love, belonging, safety, etc. is defined by wealth, then obviously you're going to resort to whatever is emotionally numbing. humans are social creatures. we are not content just to "survive". capitalism deprives us of all of these and attempts to put a material/monetary value on them, which is why drug use is such a huge issue, and designer brands are bought to fulfill desperate consumer culture, because people will do anything to look or feel like they're wealthy, and people will do anything to make their lives feel worth living.
@@raccoon_from_heaventv’s, refrigerators, air conditioning, cell phones, cars, clothes, food, children, childcare and education….
YES!!!!
“If capitalism works then why is it so costly” a sentence has never hit me so hard
The same reason why socialism doesn’t work… corruption
im 14 and this is deep
@@PacoCotero1221don't buy into this shit
@@PacoCotero1221 god forbid anyone is sincere on the internet!
So true
When taxpayers money is uses to bailout companies that should fail then the whole system is screwed.
When rich people are at risk, We're suddenly socialists
@@stevecarter8810 Rich people should be scared of socialism. They work hard for their success. Why should they have to give their hard earned dollars to somebody that hasn't earned it?
@@devinstucky6948 I think you missed my point. When taxpayer money bails out banks or other companies "too large to fail" then they are suddenly dropping their free market idealism for "the good of all". i.e. the banks are suddenly advocating for a socialist solution to their free market screwup.
@@devinstucky6948But that's not how socialism works.
Profits are privatized and losses are socialized. A huge bureaucratic system keeps the status quo.
@@peekaboo1575 I'm sure if you gave a huge bureaucracy the power to socialize and allocate funds that they totally wouldn't abuse that for their own selfish gain... As they totally never did in various actual real world examples... And that said bureaucracy would totally stay efficient...
What the US and many other countries are seeing, is the result of failing capitalism because they don't actually follow capitalist doctrine. There is too much lobbying, too much regulation (regulation that prevents small businesses from competing with government-made monopolies.)
To say that's the fault of capitalism... Well that's like saying the USSR proves communism doesn't work. They didn't actually follow the doctrine, but they still used it as a power grab and as a rallying point.
All it really did is prove that there are plenty that seek to use communism and socialism for selfish means. Could the same not be true for those who claim to be capitalist? Could they perhaps not be following capitalist doctrine just as Stalin and Mao didn't follow the communist manifesto exactly?
Whether or not the manifesto is good doesn't matter for this point, because the point is that there are so many factors outside of the manifesto that influenced things that it's dishonest to make a blanket statement about its usefulness. And as such, critiques of it cannot be formulated based off of end results alone, because there needs to be discussion and understanding of the actions that lead to said results, not just "ooh monopoly appeared, capitalism don't work" or "haha people starve socialism no work," you can argue certain intrinsic principles of each system lean towards one effect more than the other, but there needs to be an actual analysis, not a God-of-the-gaps fallacy every time. (Even though technically socialism is worse with monopolies because the state is the monopoly and it is state mandated... In capitalism monopolies are usually state lobbied.)
To point at what is happening now and scream "late-stage capitalism!" That completely ignores government corruption and the variety of factors that contribute to all of this, that would just as easily destroy any one of these people's socialist utopias... And has destroyed them in the past.
There is a lack of accountability. And I'm sure that the powers that be are thrilled we are sitting here screaming about which economic system is the boogeyman, while completely ignoring the fact NEITHER will ever work under the corrupt leadership that is able to twist either system to their liking. Even if we converted to socialism tomorrow, the oligarchs would not care because they could still game the system in their favor. And guess what? The governments are in on it.
There is also another massive problem with statistics 'measuring' GDP in non-market economies. If a commercial farmer grows a thousand bushels of wheat and sells that to an industrial bakery, that economic transaction is recorded and feeds into the nation's gross domestic product statistics. If, however, a family of subsistence farmers grows a hundred bushes of wheat, threshes and grinds that into enough flour to last them a year, that activity is not recorded and catalogued within GDP. An 'advanced' market economy will always appear wealthier than a pre-capitalist non-market economy where people are self sufficient.
Guys it's easy, a system has to be predicated on transparency, logical thought, and good faith. . None of these words
Like socialism or capitalism mean anything in a non transparent system....... But we all know that already. After this years end the world will know (complete data sets for algorithm that run systems will be exposed) its all of our fault.
Add traditional women’s work nurturing children and running households, unpaid and therefore devalued by capitalistic metrics, so much actual value is exploited while simultaneously being ignored as having none.
Yooo i get it!
I agree that anyone that thinks our current economic system is bad should give subsistence farming a go and see how much they like it.
@@colinburns8854most people in the world depend on it. in Eastern Europe, especially Bulgaria, if you live outside cities and don't use your land to grow some food like tomatoes you won't make it through the winter.
If anyone is hopeless, don't be, don't give in to what they want. All acts of resistance no matter how small are a step in the right direction. You are billions
Resistance to what?
@@thomashibbard2132 to hopelessness
@@thomashibbard2132late stage capitalism, imperialism, colonialism
I don't remember where I heard it, but
"The fact that greed exists as a human trait is /no/ reason to build our entire world around it."
You will not reproduce
@@qoph1988buddy we are in a youtube comment section about the consequences of capitalism in decay. Non of us will.
!!!!!
@@qoph1988 and you _should_ not reproduce... yet these arbitrary rules are defied every day
Always bothered me how at least in the US (and so increasingly the world) the economic system was based on the presumption that humanity was evil and greed ruled all motivation, but the government was based on the presumption that humanity was virtuous and that we could trust all people to come together to make the right decisions. How did people fall for that???
Because most are evil and greedy, there you go, not everyone is like you.
That's not necessarily true, the Federalist papers discuss in depth that "men are no angels" and cannot be made to govern themselves without a system if checks and balances that turn their natures against one another for the benefit of the system. Not saying it always works, but the founders definitely were not blind or celebratory about man's natural tendencies for greed and power
@@DavserbanHard disagree, and you view the world through the lens you craft. Humanity is capable both of unfathomable cruelty and indescribable kindness. All is not lost, even if it sometimes seems that way, and if you feel the world should be different and less cruel it is important to work towards making it that way.
@@DavserbanIf you are raised in a society that rewards evil and greed, many people will become evil and greedy.
@@pivomanslovensko I think it's worth examining the question of whether we are selectively breeding greed and lack of empathy. Financial Darwinism is the idea that in a capitalist system, only those who can make money will survive. The poor will be less likely to be selected as a partner, less likely to have children, if they have the means to make that choice, less likely to pass on their qualities in general, not only genetically but in the culture as a whole. A similar pressure has arguably always existed, but tribal society meant that everyone would be taken care of if there were enough resources to do so. If wealth was genuinely relational to intelligence I might be okay with that, but it seems more like wealth is correlated to greed, sociopathy, and lack of empathy in general. It's not a good direction for humanity.
I always loved self-regulating systems. Originally from engineering, these systems can be found in sociological environments as well. An example: Split a piece of cake between two children fairly. If you do it, they will complain abut you not being fair, regardless of what you do. To avoid this, you present them with a knife and say: "one of you cuts the piece and the other one is first in line to choose one of the halves". The child cutting the cake is now forced to think, assuming that the other one will take the larger one if the halves are not the same size. It will therefore split the piece exactly in half and both will agree that they were treated fairly. Capitalism has the opposite effect: It's an instable system, in which wealth enables the growth of more wealth, which enables the growth of more wealth and on and on, even though our real resources are finite. Until somebody comes up with an intrinsically self-regulating system, I don't see much change happening.
Due to popular demand: guys, i get it. We all scroll down after watching this video, emotionally charged and most likely anxious about the future, understandably so. I did not provide an analogy. None of these children nor the parent are a metaphor for states, companies or the common person, they were a real example taken from pedagogy to underline self-regulating mechanisms using a parent-children dynamic as example. If we can put our heads into creating a real self-regulating system within politics and/or economics, then we might spark a chance of changing things for the better.
that's a really clever mechanism to teach fairness. Do you have any other rules/mechanism that leads to agents optimizing?
Capitalism already has self regulating features in it, you're just used to them that you don't understand how they do not arise naturally and cannot imagine life without them:
Capitalism turns greed and envy into productivity. It also gives you a clear path to climb the pyramid of needs. Without it, most societies stagnate. There's plenty of examples.
Also, do not fall into the currently-popular trap presented into this video. Gift-giving, hand-holding societies DO NOT SCALE. Sure, tiny village, couple of families, all well. As soon as you don't know the whole neighborhood by first name, the pleasantries end, you can't keep up with everyone and they keep rotating so your standing is never enough.... but money is still good.
Another trap presented here is equating capitalism to resources.
Countries do not go to war over capitalism. They go to war over resources. These are VERY different things.
"Split a piece of cake between two children fairly. If you do it, they will complain abut you not being fair, regardless of what you do"
do they ? Frankly this analogy of yours, regarding entire nations, it's a little simplistic don't you think ?
@@thomasdupont7186 his analogy has nothing to do with entire nations, he was using it to describe self regulating systems.
Where does the cake come from to be split evenly?
5 and a half min into the video I got one of those "want to hear how I made $2 million dollars?" ads and laughed so hard 😂
watching this without premimum bc you don't think it'd be a good idea to pay another $14 a month and being interuptted by ads really enriches the experience of this video
you considered paying for premium?! 😂
@@user-qw1xv8sc5d 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i feel so silly for being so desperate for some peace to even consider, but yes. lmao. haven't given in yet though!
It’s ironic how this guy is thriving due to capitalism. He could have demonetized the video
@@basement_culture something something "we should improve society somewhat" "yet you participate in society, curious!" meme something something.
like yes..... but also i'm sure this guy still has to like. eat.
we don't really know the state of his life.
@@basement_cultureyou do realize that we still have to participate in this system 🤡
Middle class is a term which no longer has any meaning. Theres only those that work and those that provide jobs. 90% of the world were farmers before the industrial revolution. Corporations like black rock have been buying every single family home they can. Most of us dont actually produce anything but money for the corporations that have shackled us. The fda performs aggressive raids on anyone that provides actual organic unprocessed food. Theyre working on taking our ability to save currency. When the world moves to digital currency whats stopping them from limiting how much you can have, how much you can spend and where. We will be pushed into a credit based system where we own nothing. Its in the works right now.
100% this.
"those that provide jobs"
Don't fall for their language, they aren't providing the jobs,they are merely exploiting the ones who do the work.
There's an Owner Class, and everyone else.
Bit doomer but yeah
@ReadParenti right if you go over that amount they take your benefits. You're kept in poverty barely scraping by with the amount they give you. With people that can't work it's a harsh life.
Man, growing up in this state of the world order just feels numbing. I don't parcticulary see a bright or a dark future ahead of us (or egotistically me). But to put put it in the matter of colours, it basically just feels grey.
In my younger years I've always had tendencies to anxiety. But with me growing older and understanding more and more about our world, it gets worse over time. My inital tought during and after this video was "Why not just end it all, so you I don't have to endure all of what's ahead." And I know that this is a very very dangerous thought, yet it was the first "rational" and impulsive thought that I had.
After writing this short paragraph, I noticed how silly it sounds. Initially it has not much to do with the topic in this video (great video btw.). Maybe my current state of mind is partly influenced by the consequence of Capitalism. I thought about deleting the paragraph and just moving on with my daily life, but I will just leave it there. On the other side I don't know the effects that my comment will have on other people reading this. However at the same time, I don't really care, because I feel immensly powerless in the big sceme and disconnected from the world around me. I apologize if I'm come a across as egocentric, rude and naive.
You are not alone not only me, bi I feel like a lot of people feel like that, some are just very good at hiding/ignoring it than others
Sounds like you're discovering nihilism. You're not far, you should make the jump to absurdism. For me, its proved to be a healthier mindset than nihilism.
Some days I feel absurd, other days I feel hopeless. Get plenty of rest and take care of yourself best you can in the system you've been born into. Unfortunately, unless we all band together (which will never happen thanks to the upper end constantly pitting us against each other) then we are powerless to change the world we live in. Circumstances may be bleak, but on an individual level they are not hopeless. We have access to food, water, decent infrastructure, and a mostly safe community depending on where you are located. That's a lot more than majority of the places in the world can say. I understand the hard work of anyone's day to day is numbing to their body and soul, but if you bite the bullet and you truly understand the system you live in then you can game it to put yourself into a better position than you are now. It'll be slow and you will NEVER reach the state of those who used foulplay or were born into money, but you will be comfortable and content with what you've earned as it truly is yours. Take pride in what you have and don't stop dreaming. You have the rest of your life ahead of you and I promise you don't know what it has to offer, you could end up anywhere doing anything and if that thought scares you then living must not be for you.
Edit: In the same vein as OP I don't know how people will take this as it's just the way that I've come to view things. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment can often lead to depression. I hope that what you take away from this is that sometimes you have to just accept that life is stupid and ridiculous and way beyond your control. Enjoy what you can and enjoy what you want, otherwise what's the point?
This is pretty much what I think too.
Thanks for all the anwers guys. Yes it's true, that compared to a lot of other people lifes mine is technically great. And often I try to remind myself of exactly that. It definetly helps, but I'm kind of stuck between being motivated to, as you say, biting the bullet and trying to get rest to relieve myself from the stress I've been giving myself recently. It's hard do describe, because of the many factors playing together to form my anxiety-driven mind.
At this exact moment I would say that I'm doing quite well, and I hope you guys may feel that way too.
In fact, I spoke to some friends of mine about this topic of being "hopeless for the future" (they are between the ages of 20-25) and at some point someone asked "Or is our generation just some kind of whining-generation"?
To be honest I think that this statement is not completely wrong, because some of us (even myself) seem pretty spoiled. Yet when a whole generation of people are saying something along the way of our topic, there must be something wrong. And I think we are not to blame, because we were way to young to have any major influence on it (whatever "it" is).
The best thing about statistics and figures is that if you don't like the results you can always move the goalposts
Hence this video making very stupid assertions
He explained why it wasn't accurate. Do you have an issue with what he presented?
no economic system or political setup will guarantee people will be good to each other, what brings all these systems down inevitably is humanity itself.
look up the acali raft. People of different cultures, believes and backgrounds were put on a raft for a year, completely isolated. They started loving each other despite being completely different. They shared everything, were like a happy family
We are good in nature. It's hierachies, authorities, greed that make us go bad
@@juannaym8488 well the truth is juan 2% of people are sociopaths and 1% are psychopaths. When they're are people who are hungry for power and wealth those guys are the ones that try the hardest to get to the top and those people at the top control you. That's the truth
@@noahsanchez5329 then we need a system were there's either no top or where the top's power is controlled by those by the bottom
@@juannaym8488and that kind of system has no example in our history.
@@juannaym8488that is what democracy was supposed to be. A system controlled by the people not by the ones in power.
Our morals are stuck in 1880’s while our technology is stuck in 2030’s while our education is stuck in 1980’s while our legislation is stuck in 1930’s while our economy is stuck in the 1970’s while our military Industrial complex is stuck in the 1990’s while the rest of the world decides how to divide us up into its dinner.
The us is still hegemonic, there is no carving. Yet.
What a comment! The aspects of our society you mention ARE really stuck in the respective decades you say. Spot on.
Our spirit was killed and replaced in Year 33 ad < proof is akin to gravity )
And our sexualities and mental software are still all caveman-mode
@@percivalyracanth1528hey I can read words AND music 😡
Man my mind was just screaming Kafka, Kafka, Kafka before you came out and used the word 'Kafkaesque' yourself....I think he was the first writer who really captures this feeling of absurdity and pointlessness and the feeling of being trapped that today's world evokes in many of us....
Kafka biographic video coming soon 👀
@@HorsesOnYT Love it....can't wait!
The problem are the people that can't be named.
Read Zola
read gogol he was proto absurdism and surrealism
"Capitalism is when you bomb Iraq." - a very fair analysis
wanna debate this video? you’re the only opposition i’ve seen, i’m guessing you’ll go the “economic systems are just a means to execute our nature. there’s no reason to change capitalism there’s gonna exploitation in every system” route? should we start there or do you have an actual point
@@wuizabug2648 No, not really interested in a debate. I think that most of the complaints about economic systems, or at least the ones in this video, are really complaints about choices that governments (or in many circumstances, particularly in the US, corporations) make. Capitalism doesn't require that people behave unethically, although some will claim that it does.
@@joshgoulash4889 oh okay i understand that. i’m an american so i personally haven’t experienced non-american capitalism. i assume that the governments of other countries paint the system is a far better light than we do.
@joshgoulash4889
Capitalism may not "require" anybody to behave unethically to function on paper, but it sure does encourage the most unethical behavior possible, and funnels all the most unethical people to the top of society.
@@ElectricAlien577 Any system that allows individuals to accrue power should expect to have some that game the system. The longer a system persists, the more obvious the exploits become, and the worse it can get. I think you're being hyperbolic, though.
This video is brilliant and encapsulates my melancholy feelings about the state of world affairs. This channel in its entirety is a gem btw one of if not the best I've seen
I, too, feel my own thoughts being fed back to me in these videos. It is truly a reflexive experience.
Everyone is just comfortable and privileged so they complain like spoiled children
@@adrian15041994indeed
@@adrian15041994agree wholeheartedly!!! I’ve shouted “EXACTLY!!!” & “that is SO true!!!” more times than I can count and I’m only a few minutes into the video. 😂😂😂😂😂
I come from an engineering background but I did have to take some business related classes in university, from that experience I can only say what I was wholly repilsed and that business people believe their own lies.
The experience that stuck withme the most was when my HR teacher praised Nike's (I think) "workforce outsourcing to south east asia", where we in the real world know they use child slavery.
Nike does outsource their work to east asia there was a documentary about it yet the adults that work these jobs are in very poor conditions not to say its any better yet i feel inclined to argue due to the fact that east asia doesnt have workers rights like in the us
@@xberserker7892the workers rights we've got in the US, like anti-child labor laws, a minimum wage, a 40 hour work week, etc were all won in long and bloody fights between organized labor and the owning class. Not a product of capitalism running unchallenged, but concessions from the factory owner to direct resistance by the factory workers
@@ethicsxcPeople these days have the collective memory of a gnat. People truly believe if capitalism ran unrestricted we’d have an amazing economic system. I’d like to point them to late 1800s/early 1900s América, where we actually had this. Child labor, 100 hour workweeks, deaths at work, company towns. Hell even the food went unregulated - you had people making bread with plaster and bleach to stretch the ingredients and make it look “perfect”. That’s what unfettered capitalism looks like, and it’s fucking horrible for us peons.
@@mikkelhansen3714how is democracy the worst lol
@@maxwellbarnhart1375 it’s the worst except for all the others
I absolutely love your message of empowerment that everything dies. I've been preaching this for years that doesn't matter if you're as big of as a sun or small as a blade of grass you have a moment in time where you don't exist then you are being made then you get to live and then you die. Every single entity within this physical realm adheres to that truth.
@@C12341could you expand?
@@C12341 It's called inherited wealth.
@@C12341nothing dies, it just transitions into a different lifeform.
Thanks for highlighting this. There is a sense of peace in this
@@C12341 I was born in a lower middle class family, but I know. I remember. No matter what reality or the facts presented…people praised “me” or said that I was “going to make it”(think general success). Since birth. Im not particularly good at any academia, business, sports, arts, or anything human really…but everyone saw it (literally even the people who’ve gone legit psychotic). It took time to realise that I was “going to make it” regardless and I didn’t have a choice. Like there was a much elder part of me that my younger mold had yet to comprehend. Though the transgender experience is riddled with much more hate and complexity, I have to say that I relate to extents.
"Historically laborers and working people have been able to feed themselves and their families pretty easily" 7:40. Yeah right go tell 'em that. All I know is people used to starve in my country, and they no longer do.
Yeah i don't understand this point of view. People were on the brink of starvation, dirty and poor for almost ALL of human history up until the industrial revolution, and even though things are better we're still not out of it.
Another way i think of it is that the scientists at CERN don't work for free. Thousands of people dedicating lifetimes to one project and we seriously think that if they had every one of their needs met outside of work that they would continue scientific pursuit? In my experience, brains are lazy. They need a tangible reason to push on and to work.
Around a year ago, I stopped participating in the consumer culture. I realised I didn't understand why I would buy many od the things, and I just kind of stopped buying unneeded products. Yet, whenever I tell people, I am seen as a "weirdo", because I don't go out and buy things I already own or things I can't use. I don't understand why I am the bizarre one, when that is just as bizarre
By the way, the term 'creative destruction' was written about extensively by an economist called Joseph Schumpeter and his book and his arguments are very elegantly structured. I loved reading his work in college (I did Economics Honours as my bachelors degree in India) and we also read some of the writings of Adam Smith and Karl Marx....no matter what you end up convinced about, there is no doubt that the works of these people are very elegantly written and are a joy to read for a curious, developing mind....Unfortunately, people tend to dismiss great works with just two sentence criticisms on social media (I dont mean you)...like I have seen Marx being trashed all my life and yet, if you read him you realise how much depth, originality and intellectual force there was in his work and writing....
Myself, I am quite confused but I know one thing for sure- The present system is broken and its just not working....If you look at my country India, we don't have the kind of neo-colonialist presence and domination of our economy by western interests (and even the Chinese now) that places like Africa have. However, we have increasing religious radicalization and a hollowing out of democratic institutions sponsored by what? You guessed it- a couple of corporates who finance the elections and the media brainwashing required to turn people into religious bigots and unthinking zombies....In return, the companies literally capture all of India's resources and get awarded every big contract in every sector.....At least, they are not foreign companies like in Africa but that is small consolation....Anyway, I am currently in Norway and I really respect this country and society....according to me, the scandinavian countries are the last existing paradise on earth....
Except when you understand the reason they got to that way is relient on the suffering of other peoples and nations.
Yeah it's nice what supporting American Imperialism and its capital system can buy you.
@@thebat4977I think it's important to point that out, but I disagree with how you frame it.
the fact that their place in the world economy places them in a privileged position in comparison to the heavily exploited people of the global south doesn't invalidate their political ideals.
What? Marx is a terrible writer, had terrible ideas, and couldn't explain them for shihh. The communist manifesto is basically sci fi garbage. Pseudo intellectualism is disgusting. Don't attach yourself to figures that loved to wax poetic. Attach yourself to strong ideas. Jeezus!
@@scotiacaper I think there's something to that idea for sure. that doesn't make those ideals wrong, though.
I am loving your videos. There are some broad thoughts that I've only scratched the surface of but my own defeatist attitude saying "what's the point?" has prevented me from ever making the effort to justify so they just became idle thoughts... Its nice to hear someone more educated expand on and give proper voice and reason to them.
Educate yourself! Horses is citing from the philosophers Mark Fisher and Frederic Jameson among others. Fisher is easily accessible in terms of much of his work being available online but also in terms of his clear and straightforward writing style. Don’t be defeatist, join a socialist org like DSA and fight capitalism.
“The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.”-Mark Fisher
anyways, great video. I didn't really know this much about how systems worked and used to go by my life ignorant. But in the last 2 years, now that I will be finishing highschool, I started checking out universities and it blew my mind how much they costs. And I can't even get a decent job considering the place I live without a certificate or experience. And i can't get experience without doing something which I can't since I don't have a certificate. This put me in this immensely terrifying place because I worked all my life for good grades so that I can get into good unis, which I can't even do all because I don't have the funds for that. So videos like this helped with my perspective on truly how things work.
The only comfort I find in climate change is that hopefully it will force the world to confront the evils of our global economic system and how it got us into this mess. The next 100 years are going to be really messy and I'm not psyched to live through them, but I only hope our grandchildren come out of it wiser than we are now
Sir, I IMPLORE YOU to research getting your own land if at all possible. Being self-sufficient and able to grow, hunt, forage and provide for yourself will be extremely important to your survival.
Mfw the icecaps all melted in 2012 😐
@@JJE18210 Even better to learn these as a whole community, that way if you have a bad run with crops your community can support you
Gotta rack our brain to act, not give in
Don't have children, you'll just making new people suffer in a world that'll be even worse than ours.
I've been saying this for years now, modern humanity doesn't fight against scarcity but against abundance. Every aspect of modern life is a quest to waste as much resources as possible consuming the most amount of time and energy.
Well spoken, well spoken.
A lot of these issues stem from corruption and lack of transparency not from the basic idea of “exchanging goods and services for capital”.
Yeah. Market economies are phenomenal. Market economies where the largest players monopolize all new market opportunities and suppress wages as low as possible are horrible.
@@TheSpecialJ11 I didn’t mention free market, just the basic concept of capitalism. I agree with you and all of this is facilitated by corruption, lobbyists and a lack of transparency.
nope
that's the standard answer they give so you won't question things further
but against scientific research none of that stands up
What is "corruption"?
When a company has an agreement behind closed doors with the government?
In the USA that's just called lobbying
and they'll lobby and ellect the politicians they want no matter what
and there's nothing we can do
Protest?
They'll use the full might of the police to bash our heads in. They've done it before.
There's no fairness. They have all the money, we have nothing.
Who's they? It's the rich, the burgeoisie. The owners of the HUGE farms, the factories, the machines, source codes, the data. and so on.
This is why social democracy is good. It retains the benefits of capitalism while also limiting the power of corrupt and self-serving capitalists.
@@binbows2258 well, the problem with social democracy is that it doesn't remove the mechanism that allows the rich to remain rich. Aka. Private property of the means of production.
Since they remain rich they have economical power. And economical power is political power.
So, they have the incentive and the power to revert all the achievements of the working class in a social democracy.
They use all the power to do things like: privatization of healthcare, privatization of transportation, destruction of labour safety regulations, eliminate the minimum wage, paid leave, maternity leave, etc.
The only way to maintain the welfare is by having popular power.
I'm very glad I stumbled upon this channel. Thank you for what you do 🖤
The ads for Dolce & Gabbana that appeared midway through were a stroke of genius 😂
Here’s the thing. I went to college and got an engineering degree and I got an engineering job. The salary is great on paper. I’m taxed on 1/3 of my salary. Then I’m taxed on everything I purchase. Then if I play it smart and invest, I’m taxed on my profits. It’s absolutely absurd how much we are taxed. Why can’t my money be my money? There is no reason nearly half of my earned money should go to the government. Then the government subsidizes failed companies with my tax dollars. We have neither a capitalist society nor a socialist society. We have this government and corporate conglomerate.
Cuz this is late stage cronyism.
Companies are now "too big to fail" so they never do regardless of their actions.
Capitalism without competition is just late stage communism with extra steps. Without checks and balances both systems just become oligopolies.
It just happens faster with communism cuz of the immediate unlimited power of the state rather than the gradual erosion of competition that capitalism requires to become cronyism.
Bombs and bailouts don't buy themselves.
A study showed that people who have good coping mechanisms will allow bad things to happen longer. 😢
Yea, people can put up with a ton and the ones who can't are world changers since most are introverts and off themselves, I've been getting "signs" is it really up to me?
Is 'what' up to you?
@@SOLIDSNAKE. at the end of the day I think the only person responsible for the happenings and reactions is ourselves
@@crystalwebster2005 reactions sure but is it really not us at the hands of the unpredictable ocean that is life
i need source for research
Trying to explain to people why I’m depressed is absolutely exhausting.
Maybe stop being so depressed and it would be less exhausting.
God is not a dead man
If you know about Allah, you would know you lost your time with fear of future
To the two others in the replies; HOW ARE THESE SUPPOSED TO SOLVE DEPRESSION
I really connect with all your essays. Great articulation, such ease and flow, not too fast, the visuals used in a truly contemporary design, and you probably use a good amount of ai. Keep up the good work, and hopefully you inspired me to create my own video essays. cheers.
Hopefully you do a bit more research on your own videos before making them public, rather than just regurgitating baseless anti-western gibberish as Horses has done here.
@@tomjohnson9833 you seem to be upset, tell us what's wrong?
Feels like many aspects of religions' origins are a guide to avoid as well as warning about capitalism. Capitalist behaviour goes directly against most of the 10 commandments for a start
yes, it is like this for most religions, too bad, the capitalist religious institutions love to go against all other forms of systems because they love exploiting people by using religion...
lmfao then how did monarchy came to exist? that's worse than capitalist lib democracy
Yup. I actually came back around to Christianity when I had the epiphany that Jesus was sacrificed for healing and feeding people without demanding profit. I realized that Satan was a real person who monopolized resources and made others bend to his will. Jesus was sacrificed for undermining the monopoly, because Satan propagandizes others to guard his fortune.
And God is just what we don't know. We don't know where all this came from, but we know it's wrong to exploit others for selfish gain. The most noble thing you can do is sacrifice your life fighting against exploitation.
If Jesus was a based commie, that kinda changes how I feel about Christianity, like it's been corrupted rather than being intrinsically corrupt. But it's corrupted easily because it isn't very scientific. So, yea.
@@MichelleHellexactly how I feel about Christianity as a Christian. I feel like so many people these days believe in a twisted version and are misled by false prophets - I am not exempt either.
@@MichelleHell I guess many people struggle to see that point of view since most socialist countries in the past have been hostile to Christians if not mandating outright atheism.
I’ve been trying to explain this system my whole life and my conclusion is we’ve haven’t seen anything better and creating something better will take a global shift that will be catastrophic
Agreed. Will be better the sooner it happens though - but no generation wants to bear that toll so the buck keeps getting passed down the line
I think the global shift will happen first and we will be determined to create something different so we don't repeat the same mistakes.
Not positive a better system will be created though. As we can see with nuclear weapons, the fundamental problem isn't the economic system but human nature. Competition and self-preservation is in our DNA and those instincts will always drive us to secure more resources and try to dominate others for our own security.
Looking for a "perfect" system is illusory imo
We are smart but also deeply flawed and will thus always find ways to circumvent it
It is the time of the Kali Yuga, so might as well give it a shot. Things are going to change, just how. Are we going to be assimilated into the capitalist system to the point that it is physically in our brains, or are we going to make a system that fits our bodies and the needs of the planet? Like getting a new car, you don’t rebuild the old one, you ditch it and get a different one. We start planning and building the new system now, so when the old one breaks down we can abandon it with glee and ride along in a system the meets our needs much better. Just can’t wait too long to start building the new one. Then the people with power have control over you.
@@xsdeafroxit may be the job of millennials and zoomers. We’re pretty fucked already so we don’t have much to lose.
@@xsdeafroxI think it keeps getting passed down the line because not enough people are revolutionaries, not because people don’t want to bear the toll. I think people are in fact very willing to pay the price for a better world. I think it’s just that, currently, society as a whole would view some sort of revolution as radical and extremist. That opinion will gradually shift as more people suffer and the ones who have been suffering suffer worse. That’s how it usually goes at least looking at revolutions of the past.
The Mesopotamian shekel existed 5,000 years ago. Money seems to pop up quite naturally all over the world no matter what. Exporting pottery, jewelry, cooking oil and any other goods they could sell for profit in the form of gold, silver and bronze coins called shekels. Profit motive seems to have existed quite naturally during the Assyrian empire.
And his doomsday prospects of capitalism progression to late capitalism is ideologically inflated and delusional.
He seems to never have noticed how we added human rights, worker rights, children rights to not work, worker unions, work security regulations, payed holidays, 40 hour a week limit etc. during the last 300 years. Creation of monopolies is closely observed and prevented by law. Many decisions were already made to prevent fusions or to split businesses.
We have limited/regulated/social capitalism now. Unrestricted unsocial capitalism is a horror story from the past.
Excellent video, in every way possible. Extremely inspiring, thank you for doing what you do. This is the content we need
I don’t know your name, Horses content creator. I am grateful for an even clearer look behind the curtain of our capitalist reality. While you yourself earn your “measly profit” from doing so I hope and indeed assume that that profit isn’t the motivation that sustains you in doing so. I hope that the hope you hold onto and make mention of in this video essay is a flame that finds the oxygen and fuel necessary to spread. Such a flickering flame in me is fed. Thanks again.
Even if it isn't everybody's gotta eat
Look behind the curtain of socialism this clown professes - there isn't anyone there because they are all dead.
Wish we could try capitalism, Keynesian is capitalism, it's socialism.
I’m sick of trying capitalism after every crash we try it again. I wanna give communism a shot like capitalism got
@blazzuris7219 You don't know what you're talking about.
I remember as a kid I thought of becoming a business man one day.
I said, "It's easy. Just sell stuff. I'll buy a bag of candy that will cost me $5 and resell everything separately, and I'll have $10."
But I kept doing math. Well, I have to go to the store, factor in my time, having money ahead of time, and possibly NOT being able to sell everything.
So, i needed more money. So I got a job. And the job paid $6 per hour, but I PRODUCED $100 of stuff. And I realized the only one really making huge profits were the ones that sold not bars of candy, not bags of candy, not boxes of candy, not pallets of candy, but the one that owned the factories that make the bags, the ones that own the factories that make the boxes, the one that owned MANY factories and he would underpay everyone beneath him.
And so, I stopped believing, because almost everything I touch is stained with some poor worker that was underpaid while they over produced and the owners of many factories skimmed the profits of many, many workers for their own riches. And these owners pretend they're being "fair."
👏💯
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There’s a retarded kid in my moms town who started his own business fixing bikes
He’s got 2 things going for him: strong work ethic, he isn’t poisoned by leftism
@@Cringe_department_15 It's on the other end of the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" spectrum of determinism/free will. It's just as disingenuous and moronic, honestly.
That's basically what Marx criticized. Pretty ironic. 😅
This is a fantastic video, thank you for sharing your efforts, insights and abilities
I can't tell you just how realistic the first minute is, there are people in my life that I can hardly hold a conversation with because all they do is complain about what's on the news or whatever, id rather sit in silence
You’re my hero. I feel so much less crazy after hearing you perfectly articulate things I’ve pondered for years.
This is an awful video filled with logical fallacies. If you don't see them, perhaps you are pondering things for so long precisely because you don't know HOW to think, rather than what to think.
@@Scoleciteplease explain further as I thought aligned with the original comment
The creator of this video can hamster is way into thinking capitalism is bad all he wants, and you’re free to latch on to his ideas. But my guess is you haven’t truly studied economic and political systems, you simply did some quick googling. And were exposed to someone else’s anti-capitalism thoughts in the past, essentially mind control (we are all at the mercy of mind control).
But the fact remains, look at how past socialist and communist societies ended up. That’s all you need to know
Right thank you! Never had the knowhow to spell it out like he does!
@@Scolecitesays the bird stuck in its cage
Bravo. I've recently subscribed to your videos due to a low point in life and they provided some much-needed perspectives. You continue to frame many of my thoughts in such a way that I feel comforted that there's content like this to reflect on and strengthen my ideas. Thanks for making, creating, and sharing such thought-provoking work @Horses.
How about this for a strong idea: build a system to replace capitalism as a wiki MMORPG sort of like The Sims meets GitHub, and when enough folks are on board, and enough kinks ironed out, we can say, screw you guys, we're going over here.
We can't escape it unless we have somewhere to escape TO.
These videos seem most appealing to cynical, misanthropic Leftists who own cats.
Do you own a cat?
If you want to strengthen your ideas, start by researching his 'figures' on British India.
Even Indian nationalists don't make such idiotic claims.
@@tomjohnson9833 , nope, don't own cats. Been thinking of adopting one recently though & a dog.
Also, what's wrong with cats? Are you allergic? Did you have a run in with a feline who ruined a part of your childhood? Some traumatic experience with a kitty that's rocked your world?
Most creatures are cool, some are a**holes though - like people, like you.
You're a strange guy with outlandish interpretations of complete strangers on the net, fella. Check yourself ✓
@@tomjohnson9833 if a person start anything they have to say by "every problem has one cause/one solution and it's this", just get ready to read/listen to a bunch of bs lol
@@tomjohnson9833your mindset seems the most appealing to self righteous shut-ins who love to deny factual truths and own guns.
Do you own a gun?
I'm Indian and was raised on Indian history, and since growing up I've done a short amount of reading into what kife in colonial India was like, and this video is absolutely on point with it. The figures line up roughly with other sources, in addition, the Brits stole upwards of a trillion dollars worth of natural resources from India to benefit themselves. You've got no close what you're talking about, and are only doing it to preserve your smooth little brain from having to think critically for a moment.
I'm new to your channel and I just want to say thank you for making such consistently excellent videos with cool artistic qualities, spanning many topics. Great work, especially with this concise little gem.
A really exceptional overview, far sighted, nuanced, wise and thought- and hopefully action- provoking. Brilliant analysis!
This might be my favorite video thats ever summed up my feeling of living under this system. You absolutely did an amazing job making this! Much love
Well, it's exactly that: a feeling. There's barely any real facts in this video.
@@raybrandt bootlicker spotted
Willful participation in you own ignorance is crazy. Ray Brandt
"inability to access"
That right there.
As a comparatively well-to-do, you seem to think that necessities just emerge out of nowhere and sit around waiting to be accessed. Like they appear to do at the grocery store.
Couldn't be more wrong than a prospector who thinks that all one has to do is dig up pure ingots.
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Moral of story: like any other type of oppressive societal systems, the ones suffering are left with a lingering hope than ONE day it’ll all end… while I was not part of any of those revolutions in the past, I hope to finally be part of this revolution, the moment where we rise against new age feudalism (or ‘capitalism’). Only then will we feel joy and optimism for a better world. My fear is, like any other previous revolution, that time will do it’s thing and the oppressors will eventually find new means to oppress.
It's called human nature and it won't ever change
Oh definitely! People will invent a hundred new ways to oppress each other, but I’m still waiting on the downfall of capitalism.
Not to be pessimistic, but most revolutions and systemic changes occur because of elite in fighting. The oppressed are just a convenient tool that can tip the balance in one elites favour, before being quietly shelved again.
@@erichooligan9329What is human nature? People can only describe it in the most dire and negative possible terms. greed, fear, anger, hate, etc. Is it not human nature to Love? To nurture, care, create, hope, survive and strive eternally for new horizons? Human nature is shaped by your conditions. It is a cop out to end the argument at “human nature” as it ultimately doesn’t mean anything beyond a justification to continue to do evil.
“New oppressors” is an interesting term. Oppressors of whom? The revolution you speak of would be started and finished by the workers, the 99%. This revolution would strive to completely destroy capitalism entirely. Uproot its very existence. The workers would be responsible for rebuilding and shaping whatever world would come after. Who would be oppressed other than the capitalists?
In regards to gift-giving, there is still a profit motive. People who manage to give fewer/cheaper gifts than they receive get richer. It's still essentially bartering, just with poor record-keeping about each transaction.
Yeah, but unless they're also really charismatic, people will likely respond in kind for anything except maybe the basic necessities as soon as they cotton on.
Being selfish in a system built on altruism can shoot you in the foot of you're not careful.
It's done for owing a favour, not to amass wealth
And it only works on a small scale.
Your channel just tripled in subscribers, congrats! Really like your videos
Love this video, thank you for such great points!
You have no idea how strongly this video affected me, perhaps a decision that changes the entire course of my life just got validated after this.
Could you perhaps share a little more about this if it isn’t something personal of course? I’m just genuinely curious
We're really curious
Same here
We simply must know
I gotta say that I don't think some civilizations going and taking over others has to do with capitalism. That was just natural for any strong society to go take over others all throughout history no matter what their economic model is
Capitalist economics are about endless growth of markets and industries. Imperialism is an inevitablility of capitalism. What do capitalists do when their domestic markets cannot easily continue growing? They expand that market into other potentially unwilling countries. It isn't natural for "strong" societies to go subjugate others. Wars are very costly for both sides. Incorporating lands that you just destroyed isn't beneficial for your people's quality of life, they'll have to lose a lot of their resources in the rebuilding efforts. Big buisness, however, loves destroyed lands. That's a lot of new building contracts to sign, lots of people in need of food and clothing; that's cheap labor, lots of money to be made.
Thanks for your entirely anecdotal, not evidentiary statement. I would like to know how your thoughts on modern capitalism, where ESG scores dictate where the three most powerful investment firms (Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard) and the unending needless war in Ukraine funded by our corrupt President where he has significant business interests to keep it going is another example of America “destroying lands.” Why is it that Biden, the most “democratic” of anybody in the U.S., continues to meddle in foreign lands to destroy them for capitalistic reasons? Perhaps it is that you are just wildly wrong and don’t know what you speak of.
@@stinky702 Oh I'm sure those roman industrialists were rubbing their hands at all the construction contracts to be signed after Rome took over the whole Mediterranian.
What is china doing now? What is russia doing now? What was germany doing prior to ww1 and 2? What was france doing under napoleon? What was britain doing for its reign? What was rome doing for its entire span essentially? What were the huns doing in their time? What was persia doing in the ancient meditarranean? On the same token, what was athens doing in the same exact era, and sparta to boot? Not as any defense of capitalism, but levying a criticism of it that applies to pretty much any society through history is odd. A more accurate phrasing would be capitalism further incentivizes imperialism during low periods, and boom-bust cycles are a feauture not a bug. Also, war is only costly for the losers historically. The victors paid with lives, but war profiteering is a tale as old as society. Some civilizations through history bothered rebuilding and incorporating defeated territories, and those were generally the longest lived, but many either sacked what they could and left or committed some degree of genocide and just supplanted the male population with their own. Basically, the capitalistic model of imperialism is just a new coat of paint on a very old car, not some unique trait to it
@@maskedbandit9990 Dude has a castro pfp don't take the bait...great point tho!
You're absolutely brilliant. Look forward to all your future videos ❤️
These are the best videos ever. Thank you
I think you make some good points. However, I really do think that capitalism has been a net gain overall for many societies. I know it has to die at some point, but, if anything, it’s an important milestone in the advancement of human civilization. It’s not like these future systems are going to get rid of every aspect of capitalism, neither. We should keep the parts that work(encourages ingenuity through patents, the freedom of citizens to benefit their communities through private charities, the incentive to provide services and luxuries to the common household, etc). I think it would be a grave mistake to end capitalism completely.
Still a great video, though. It made me think instead of making me mad, so great work.
A lot of those "parts" are basic freedoms though which could only be stopped through a tyrannical government.
You are starting to edge close to the historical materialism understanding of history. At one time, capitalism was a progressive force. So too was feudalism over slave societies, and slave societies over “primitive” communities. However, just as slave societies and feudalism became reactionary over time, producing the elements that led to their own destruction, so too has capitalism become similarly reactionary. With dialectal thinking, we can begin to see the truth of the world, utilizing concrete analysis of concrete conditions to shape our strategy and policy.
If we want to advance humanity, we must accept that our mode of production must change, as it has in the past.
What happens when the contradiction at the core of capitalist society, that being that one class owns the means of production, and another class can only sell their labor to those owners, is resolved? Either the owners remain in power, and we embrace barbarism in a ruined world, or the laborers break up and reshape the means of production, marrying the social labor organization that we experience today with social ownership of the means of production, and reshape society along with it. We cannot say exactly what that society will look like, nor will it be a total end to human misery, but just as capitalism launched us to great heights, so too can what comes next.
@@wizardunionizer I think that’s a decent way to put it. I just can’t shake the thought that people only tend to deal in absolutes when it comes to how societies should function. If every aspect of capitalism is upended, the progress brought by the new system would be completely outweighed by the shattering social effects that a lack of familiar structure would bring.
I’m not saying anything about you implying this, however. I’m just saying that slow and steady wins the race. As much as social change is an integral part to healthy societies, it’s a fine balance between too much change and not enough. Not everyone is going to benefit from these changes, neither. It’s only a matter of time before anyone’s current economic views become obsolete and harmful to future generations.
@@wizardunionizerthis comment just changed my mind to how I perceive historical materialism. It comes across as a kind of Hegel phenomenology of the spirit idea but in terms of economics. Great comment.
Yeah that's a reasonable idea until you realize that if class had never existed and thus feudalism never existed human beings would be far, far, far more advanced now than we are today. History is not an independent factor, it is a narrative, a result of actual causes. It is not a cause in itself, there is no teleology to the development of societies. Capitalism is just a profoundly evil, harmful thing that unfortunately happened to humanity and there is nothing good about it and nothing about it we should keep.
This video is so good wtf. I love the style of editing that the paintings :)))) Will definitely show my friends!
Thank you!
Great video!! Thank you for creating and sharing.
Although I disagree with you entirely, I’m glad you live in a place and time where you can post your opinion and not be silenced.
Always good to see the other side’s point of view
What people often gloss over about a possible gift giving society is that, those who ACTUALLY give, don't want anything in return. This idea that, I give you give, is a CONTROLLING idea. If I give you something you can't say no to, everyone will feel bad when you don't give them something in return. So then I tell them as a controlling person "you HAVE to give me X thing now because I provided water". This is the life that oligarchs want us to believe in. This is the core reason why Karen's exist. (In the meme sense of the name). Money has just become a form of "I did X type of work for X amount of time, I earned this much $$$ (control tokens). Now you HAVE to do what I ask. Society expects you to."
Worst (or best part of you're a politician or oligarch) is that, the employee is under full control of the boss because most people are already living paycheck to paycheck (as designed).
You can't say no. Welcome to the most "free" country in the world ("for those with the power or uniform)")
Cringest comment in the video
@@Cringe_department_15 Just the truth
Thank you. I needed the DEGROWTH ❤. I need something to help with the doom. I often have a more negative image of the future of human beings.
Thank you for making this video with a calm voice, accessible info, no distracting bg music, and just few youtuber gimmicks.
Agreed
you managed to capture tge feling of sadnes I have with the world so well
Another incredible video. Thank you for bringing this to light.
Bro your videos are so good. The quality and consistency is crazy. I can watch this while I play games or I can put my whole attention on it and it's still great.
I love your voice, and your ideas/opinions, keep it up.
the salt analogy was siiick dude 😎
This channel is so refreshing, like a respite from the things i see day to day that dont make sense to me and make me feel insane.
Everything here makes sense.
I live in Brazil, I'm going to use Google Translate because I don't trust my English. But I want to talk a little about the socioeconomic situation here, not only in Brazil but in Latin America. On one side of the street, you will see a huge slum where a population that has been deprived of dignity lives. On the other side, high-end condominiums, beaches, a beautiful landscape, rich white people. When asking the population why this inequality occurs, most Brazilians will respond that the state is to blame. This answer makes a little sense, as in our constitution the government assumes the responsibility of ensuring dignity for all. But what would be the solution to this? More freedom for capitalism and less state?
Now, Argentina is about to elect a president who will privatize education, health, security... And then, I assume, Argentina will show off its economy, without taking into account the situation of the lower classes. But who are they going to blame now?
This is how I see the cycle that occurs here in Latin America. Sometimes more capitalism, sometimes more “socialism”.
The state will not handle all the problems that capitalism creates, and so capitalism always comes back with more capitalism as the solution.
I’ve always been more conservative in thought and have enjoyed the comforts of capitalism living in the US. But I can see the issues in purely capitalistic societies. For example, pharmaceutical companies exist to keep you buying their products, not curing you. Insurance exists as sort of tax with frustrating complications when it’s service is actually used. Those who are fully invested in profitable enterprises want to keep their money streams and their parties going.
That being said, the replacement of a system built for consumption is not so easy to implement in my mind. Perhaps we as humans have to agree moralistically on the service of others. Self sacrificial love in order to raise our societies up, to take the over abundance of resources and apply them best to do the most good. This of course is an incredibly difficult task, and may not occur anytime soon. Humanity has fought over what is moral for all of history. But the endless self serving consumption of those who benefit most in capitalistic societies cannot endure, I think we can all agree on that. But without conversion away from self centered societies we will always receive backlash and fighting to keep the capitalistic system going.
the belief that the human condition is inherently evil and greedy and destructive is one that makes me incomprehensibly sad. be hopeful always - a brighter future will come when we come together
You are the best
God is not a dead man
Future is bright
Even with crazy men in white house
One of the best videos ive ever watched. One of the best channels, ive only watched 3 of your videos but im pretty sure all of them are profoundly great.
yt recommended your arthur 9/11 vid only to find out it was copyrighted
Ty… we will see.
I have to say, this video only contains a VERY cherrypicked set of arguments. The fundamental flaw of these points can be summarized by the sentence at 13:51: "8 million people die every year, but at least we don't massacre people like Stalin did." You actually didn't provide ANY counter-argument against this sentence, and not only is it true, but Stalin almost managed to kill as many people ONLY in the soviet union as are dying now in the ENTIRE WORLD with a much bigger population than it had a few decades ago.
I’m noticing this channel works when it’s informative or tells interesting stories and falls short when the video maker gives his personal opinions especially when it seems he has a rather juvenile understanding of politics.
Over the course of decades, the largest state in the world killing millions isn't nearly the counterargument you seem to think it is. Stalin starved 5 million Ukrainians to death. It is considered his worst and most horrific slaughter with most numbers placing his total casualties at 6-9 million over the course of his regime. The British Empire in 1943 starved 3 million Indians to death in Bengal. These famines happened consistently throughout the British Regime, with the worst being the Bengal famine of 1770, which killed a total of 10 million people, eclipsing Stalin's entire regime over the Soviet Union in an era where the population was sub-1 billion.
This is not to downplay genocide. It's to point out that comparing brutalities is not an argument that makes capitalism actually look better. 9 million people will die of hunger this years. 8 million without medical care. But because most of those people will be dying in neo-liberal colonies, they won't be added to some dictators score card like some morbid contest. Their death will be viewed as normal. Or as an improvement proportionally on supposedly more food insecure times. In fact, most estimates show that starvation is increasing due to the famines caused by climate change. It is more accurate to saw that capitalism, each year, produces a deathtoll equivalent to 2 Holodomors from hunger alone.
jeb walked you.. stand up you’re embarrassing yourself
@@jedediahmyers7495 The point still stands that "capitalism" itself (not counting the indirect consequences of it, ofc) has never killed people ON PURPOSE, but instead bettered the life of a lot of people worldwide (unlike nationalism, which is responsible for horrid crimes ofc), objectively speaking.
Stalin, on the other hand, basically MURDERED 600.000-800.000 of his own people over a span of just three years, in the so-called "Great Terror" (1936-1938), because he deemed them suspicious.
Mao did something similar during the "Cultural Revolution", which was also exclusively aimed to keep his power, or to restore it.
There is an infamous quote from Stalin which says "Death solves all problems - no person, no problem." - something not even the most brutal and ruthless capitalists could ever have stated that blankly.
The biggest problem of "communist" states, up to this point, is not even necessarily the people leading them, but the complete ABSENCE of any power-checks for those people.
Even in an absolute monarchy, the system of power and reign is quite complex and involves a lot of people, specifically those who have amassed a big fortune for themselves. The king/queen is usually very dependent on them and can risk the legitimacy of their crown by making the wrong decisions or becoming disconnected from reality.
In a communist state - or any "modern" ideologist dictatorship for that matter - the leaders themselves DEFINE "reality" and usually have a huge propaganda machine to help them do just that. A capitalist or a king could never quite have the power over the MINDS of their people as these leaders do - simply by stating anyone who doesn't agree with them acts against the "revolution". This way, they keep their people in a state of permanent mass psychosis, where the ruler and the revolution become replacements for god. This is why all communist rulers have a huge problem with religion: the power of god could threaten THEIR godlike power, if the people worship god instead of the "revolution". In such a state , the worth of the individual is ONLY determined by their conformity to authority - not wealth, personal achievement or even family relations. This is why it is so easy to denounce anyone not conforming or not liked by the godlike ruler as "inhumane" or "threats" and comitting some of the worst crimes in human history against them.
Also, the biggest famines in human history (Great Chinese famine) happened NOT because of natural causes, but because the people and even those in power(!) completely lost touch with reality, science and even basic human (common) sense.
(Plz excuse my lackluster English)
@@wuizabug2648 there you go haha
I think that eventually something so atrocious will happen that it physically cannot be ignored by the people. I don't think anybody can really predict it, as it could be a number of different things, but eventually it will.
I hope you are right. My fear is that in America the current global hegemony and enforcer of capitalism. The middle class can be continually bought off with commodities or propagandized to accept any cost to ensure their lifestyle remains the same. Anyone under the middle class will be too burned out and tired to even care. I could be just as wrong as I could right though.
This video encapsulates so many of my own feelings in such a neat and beautiful way. I will share it with anyone who will take time to consider.
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I myself am stuck in a soulless corporate job and feel like I have very little to complain about because I'm reasonably comfortable and so are most of the people around me but I so wish I could have more freedom in what I do and not always have to consider money and productivity.
That combined with the knowledge that most people don't have it as well as I do and I'm stuck with a feeling of intense guilt to add to my dissatisfaction. Can't wait for the revolution. Much love from Ireland.
We can't wait for the revolution, we need to make it. Good luck comrade.
Will come
Lmao
I feel like this too, and so do many of my colleagues. Absurd to think we should be grateful both for being comfortable AND better than many and yet we fail.
Let me ask you a question, do you believe in security? In regards to a person or a job?
glad im finding your content. this video essay format is great for learning theory
Good stuff, well laid out.
And I like your voice. Abrupt ending though ^^
“If the world does not unite after the second shaking of the earth (WWII) then the great spirit will shake the earth a third time, but this time, with not one, but both hands.”
Who said/wrote this?
2:24 This feels a little misleading. *First:* It seems to confuse money (the concept) with currency (the object used as money).
*Second:* Money has appear independently in post farming and pre writing societies in all continents through history.
*Third:* In the reference, («The Myth of the Barter Economy» in The Atlantic) the claim is that what has not been observed in itself is barter economy, but systems like gift economy have. From here, money still appears as a logical consequence of the limitations of systems (not barter but) like Gift Ecoomy. For example, is interesting to note that the article adds that «exchange isn’t impersonal», which would cast doubts of its efficiency at macro levels.
Incredibly well done. And I especially appreciated the ‘it’s not if, but when’ statement. Might not be in my time, but there is a hope for future generations.
That's precisely how evangelical christians delude themselves into believing they are correct. It's also why people point out what you are doing is a religion.
As a former member myself, good luck out there.
@@willytodd2750 Well evangelical Christians believe in questionable set of events that were fainltly recorded via second hand sources that turned into a an absolute fan-fiction mess. This is more of a "Generally speaking regardless of wtf happens, systems rise and fall, empires crumble under the weight of time like night and day, so it's hard to imagine this will last forever, as even our civilization probably won't to begin with...maybe in the future it will be changed..."
Basically it's just a thought that isn't even believed that strongly but a likely theory. That's hardly a religion that's just a bloody hypothesis and a intense thought experiment.
This was such a brilliantly engaging and informative video! 👏🏼
America isn't even a country, more like a corporate economic zone. Right wing, left wing, people need something in common to look out for each other and that's hard to come by here.
Watching this video is one of the most defining moments in my worldview now. Thanks for changing my mind, anonymous youtuber. You've earned a loyal subscriber. I hope the world can look to the nations that "made it" and see that sometimes the grass really is greener when green paper plays second fiddle to human livelihood.
I think our problem is that we are trying to find some uniform system that should satisfy all our needs.
A capitalist or socialist system (or some combination of both), but to the end.
In practice, I don't see a good reason for this.
In a general way, instead of getting married to one idea, you can look at these approaches as tools that can be used as needed according to the need in the general system.
I'm loving this content. Kudos!
Common factor: life sucks
Another incredible video! thanks for put some light on this issue, it feels so obvious and at the same time so hard to explain, and you made it incredible well!
this needs more views
what you just described is materialism, both socialism and capitalism share this idea that the more you have the happier you will be.
the biggest problem with the market in the capitalist world is that politics control it.
was expecting analysis. but that was a hundred fucking percent editorial
Great video, man. i hope more people can see this. We really need some action done soon, or we are done, we are basically already toast rn. The "americas" are in their worst position in years
This channel cranking out top shelf video essay material. Thank you for the hard work
Hey, thank you for this video. I really mean it. Thank you so much. You are helping by informing.
Haha, I also enjoyed the Bill Gates picture that you included. Tax the greedy(oops; I meant the rich).
I don’t recall having ever found it hard to imagine an alternative to capitalism, because I grew up in a system to which capitalism was external: the family home! “From each according to ability, to each according to need” was in that context the rule ere time immemorial.
It’s curious to me that so many can so easily have that understanding from formative experience turned into a palimpsest comprehensively overwritten.
Man when I graduated I tried to do my own thing cuz I didn't want to work for someone else or be stuck in a corporate setting. I tried for a while doing freelance in what I know and I even tried focusing on my hobby and making something that could be sold eventually. It was working for a while but you know shit hit the fan. So still I ended up needing to get a job and now I'm doing the same souless thing every day being expected to produce hundreds of dollars while I get paid nothing close to the value my labor provides.
I will admit Im not doing as bad as others. While I feel trapped I do have some hope. I still have a couple options that'll improve my quality of life if they pan out. There's a few job offers tied to my hobby so if I manage to get in I'll have a better income though I'll still dislike the way my work is being used.
Other option is to continue my studies which seems like a pretty doable thing. Been thinking about it for a while.
So you tried something it worked you had a setback and then you gave up and started complaining. under communism you would’ve done the same exact thing
What degree did you do and what freelance work did you do? The most common are probably tutoring, copywriting, video editing, graphic design, content creation, digital marketing & entrepreneurship.
It's much easier if you move to a country with developed infrastructure yet remains cheap compared to a salary you can get freelancing, this decreases expenditure whilst maintaining income levels & also can decrease taxes dependent on location. Many people chose countries in EE, (Eastern Europe) SEA, (South East Asia) & South America.
It’s called two jobs one income…make time for yourself to get your own business going when you aren’t at work. This is where you either have the grind or you don’t. No excuses
@@JackieChan-rk7mcyes keep grinding in the mines. and eventually you too can own your own mine!