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Just FYI Simon you should definitely keep explaining how business blaze works during each video. after all your subscriber count for this channel is slowly but sadly going up so new people are joining.
We need a channel where Simon is just given a random topic, and just has to rant about it for ten to twenty minutes. No script at all, no access to google (except through Siri voice activation).
"You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store"
They're probably gonna contiue to sponsor one channel every couple of months and ship so much product to Simon that he keeps talking about it for months😂
Although they are so similar as to be indiscernible, the difference is who held the means of production. Pullman came from the wealthy class. In a communist state the authority would be people from a working class background, or at least those that could present evidence of such. Pullman would have been in a camp or up against a firing squad and a former activist would have been calling those same or similar shots for the "greater good". The saddest part is that your average worker won't get a say no matter what.
@@amaliapursell the capital in pretty much every communist state is usually controlled by the same people who make up the ruling class in whatever former system they had, baring the odd groups that are scapegoated, especially when you're dealing with a militarily enforced dictatorship where the previous state's military elite decide to reward themselves with the capital of the state
Seriously, this is your best channel. Don't stop Business Blaze or the Ghost of Marx will haunt you for he rest of your life, pawning all of your pants.
Followed by an "allegedly" because if we're being honest. Google sometimes hides facts. "DuckDuckGo would solve your stupidity" just doesn't have the same ring to it though.
yeah - still around. But not like there used to be. And I think he at least paid them in something other than company script - only redeemable at company store. That was 'f*ck your workers' 1.0 - but that did not go over too well in most places.
Have you seen Samsung? They have their own ski resort which employees get to use for their annual company paid for holiday. Samsung is like the Pullman of today in Korea. Without the dictatorship part. Hyundai and LG too. The Japanese Conglomerates are like that too, the Keiretsu. Met with a representative from Sumitomo, who introduced himself and then went on to say "Sumitomo started its business 600 years ago as a metal mining business" Oooh baby here we gooo
“I am George Pullman, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Pullman, Illinois, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Pullman, Illinois can become your city as well.”
"That whole thing, eight hours work, eight hours play, eight hours sleep... That is a very recent invention." Good point Simon! Coincidentally, while it was a worldwide movement, it is often credited to the Haymarket Affair just a few miles from Pullman. Coincidence? It happened before Pullman's death and before his company had to give up the town. (This is also where the May 1st worker's holiday comes from.) The Haymarket Affair is certainly worth a video, especially in 2020. It can remind us that change is messy and uncomfortable. The narrative is not always clean and scapegoats are often used to distract from the real issues affecting the people.
Simon: your an hour early for your delivery, how dare you! Me, an American: my package was delivered perfectly on time, at 11PM when it was scheduled for 9am.
It's almost like a mix of systems works the best, kinda like MOST countries do. Though most at least have Universal Health Care of some type. In the US, they hate each other and many hate black and brown people so much that they'd rather no one have it, than to think of POC of having it as well.
Yeah, but in capitalism, you have the government looking at the companies, and it's answerable to the people. In Communism, the people in charge of production are the people in charge of the government, so there's no one looking over the other's shoulder.
I owned a Skilled Laborer Pullman home for 20 years. Very interesting neighborhood, as there are elements that reveal different era’s of Chicago’s history.
I worked at a restaurant that was in one of the bigger manager’s houses a block east of the Hotel Florence, across from what had once been the plant. One of my coworkers lived in a row house a couple blocks away. I’d spend time before and after my shifts strolling through the neighborhood, nerding out over the architecture and history of the place.
A blaze I somehow missed, popping up in my feed two years on and reminding me of the pure joy of OGBB. Satified yet slightly melancholy nostalgia right now.
For real dude. I lived in Waynesboro for a while and i used to drive out towards Hershey and York for work. Hershey is one hell of an amazing "company town" for sure. Everything from their own theme park, schools, orphanage, etc etc. Great place man.
There's Bagdad, Arizona, built around a copper mine. In Oklahoma we have several oil-related towns including Duncan and Ponca City. Perhaps not as bad as Pullman Town, but the company still dominates. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad,_Arizona
something tells me that Simon is the one locked in the basement and he's being forced to make all these videos. he's paid with pictures of trains and they feed him magic spoon cereal.
@@aceundead4750 Lucas was trying to free Simon but Disney jumped in & bought Star Wars to keep Simon as slave, that's why Simon made that video on Disney ... coincidence?!!
The past really was worse. Back then they had to deal with a deadly illness that was difficult to contain due to inadequate masks and people refusing to even wear those.
now I want Simon to cover the 1900-1994 San Francisco bubonic plague outbreak. It went on for years and a large part of that was because people just refused to believe it was real and even when doctors were like "yah, it's definitely bubonic plague" they were like "no it's not. The doctors are just in some kind of conspiracy" and then people were like dropping dead and they were still like "what plague?". And then eventually they admitted their was plague but there were like "oh, no no, it's fine, only Chinese immigrants can get it. Europeans are immune because they eat a lot of meat, Europeans could never get the plague". And then when they did admit it it went away in under a year...and again it lasted for 4 years so 3 years of that was people just denying it existed/was actually a problem. I'm so glad we learned from that and stopped being so stupid...we learned from that right guys...guys?
Simon, as an overly concerned electrician, I kindly request that you remove that fine American cup from the light fitting on your shelf. Unless it’s an LED, then you can likely ignore me
Have you watched them all until the end? 😇 Have you pondered the moral quandary of Danny and Sam being slaves in the basement 227000 subscribers know about it and won't help them because we can't risk the end of the Blaze? 😇
Logged on tonight to see six brand new videos from Simons channels waiting to be viewed. Jackpot! Specifically: •Business Blaze •Top Tenz •TIFO •Megaprojects •Geographics •Biographics Only ones missing: •Side Projects •Highlight History •xplrd But, all 3 of those have had something new posted within the past 6 days. Your work ethic is admirable. I tip my hat to you, Mr. Whistler!
@@toymachine2328 see I don't think he has Sam. If he does Sam is giving him hell. Sam plays by his own rules. Poor Danny boy seems defeated and resigned to his plight in the basement chained to the radiator.
@@brainblaze6526 one day!!! We will free your captors. At least tell me ETA is with them through these cold months? Did you think we forgot about him and his wealth of knowledge? Well we have not! Another example of how you use and abuse the people and things in your life.
@@brainblaze6526 Didn't I hear you were working on Callum from the Casual Criminalist as well? Pretty sure he mentioned that in one of those videos I recently saw...
Long comment time! First of all, I've always been intrigued by company towns. My grandmother grew up in a coal mining company town in West Virginia in the 30s and 40s, and her stories about how things were and why she made sure to get out of there and go to college always fascinated me. On top of that, I currently live in a city that has grown to incorporate an area that used to be a Goodyear company town, a neighborhood called Atco in Cartersville, GA. The factory shut down decades ago and it's now one of the poorest parts of town, while being laid out perfectly and with classic looking homes that make you think the area could be rehabbed into being one of the nicest parts of town, with the right investment and development decisions. I've always thought as company towns as being the old timey version of city simulation games like Sim City or Cities Skylines. They got to lay out what they thought was the best city plan, where various services and buildings should be located, what the laws should be, etc. To be fair, this was much the case during the colonial era as well, which was under a monarchic system instead of a truly capitalist one, and this sort of thing tends to be the rule instead of the exception in heavily communistic/socialistic societies, it's just that the thing that determines who get to play the game of Sim City differs between various systems. Doesn't matter the system, inexperienced people who are uneducated in the nuances of city planning will always screw it up by being heavy handed in the obvious aspects while being completely obvious to the more subtle aspects, especially the human psychology aspects. Also, in regards to the commie getting charged with sedition for opposing the draft, that would be due to the Sedition Active signed by Woodrow Wilson. His disregard for free speech is one of many reasons that many consider him one of our worst presidents. Sounds like we hold similar economic/political views. Idealistically, I'm an anarcho-capitalist, believing that if we all could work under the principles of the non-aggression principle, we could thrive under a capitalist system with no government. The problem is, reality exists and people are dicks and idiots, so I do believe we need some level of governance/law enforcement/social net to mitigate the dickishness and lack of knowledge of many if not most people, to some extent or another.
No matter what the system is called, communism or capitalism, the reason the political system needs checks and balances with the regular people having a real uncensored voice, is because ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS.
@@BrighamMike everyone participates in capitalism in a capitalist system. If not you will end up living in a tent under the freeway. Workers trade labor for money. Capitalists make money selling the products from that labor. I’m not sure what your comment really means.
@@FoolOfATuque government forces a tax on you to pay for items. In capitalism your involvement is of your own free will. There are ways to live outside of capitalism. Not so for government.
My girlfriend and I were browsing TH-cam after dinner together and when she scrolled by your videos about themed restaurants I stared longingly at the blaze before my eyes. Then the cursor moved back and I filled with joy, she clicked on your video and I knew she wouldn’t understand. I told her how happy I was that she started to blaze, little did I know we would watch like 5 minutes of rambling and then she’d click off. It’s all right though I’ve already seen that one. She couldn’t deal with the heat of the blaze
I love the living shit out of Simon, even more so since the start of Business Blaze and his love for cocaine. But I would never, ever hire him to do an advertisement for me. Bless you, Simon.
I fell down a god damn mountain in Whistler when I was backpacking there. I came to a stop because I rolled into a parked truck and left a pretty good dent in it where I landed. Luckily it was getting dark and no one saw, and I wasn't too injured to slowly get away. God damn steep slope with a no trespassing sign more than half way up, but you could only read it from like a foot away. I was gonna try to camp, and then I see that and had to try and turn around. That was a rough night. I ended up just going to 'town' and sitting on the docks watching the beautiful surroundings. All in all a good time, but I was sore to say the least, for a while.
37.4 hrs as mandated by law here in Australia. Although over time is generally factored into your full time salary. Unless of course you work on an hourly rate in which case you may get penalty rates
how do i always know there's a new blaze even when i haven't been near my phone to get the notification? Maybe i love this channel too much. Or, maybe i just love learning about business... Ha!
I'm a Chicagoland native, I've been to Pullman. The stories are amazing. According to one legend the architect, Solon Spencer Beman, requested in lieu of some pay that the town be named after him. After it was named "Pullman" George Pullman allegedly told Berman was told it was...a combination of both of their names.
Passenger cars sound wonderful. Our rail lines are mostly freight trains dozens of cars of oil! The tracks pass several schools and many homes and businesses. It's like living by a ticking time bomb. Like that town in Canada, train caught fire and blew up half of the town. They have a memorial art park. The new parts are weird super modern.
Company towns do exist, they just aren't for industrial workers. Go to any tech company and their offices basically have an entire city inside of them. The Facebook head office even has a barber shop in it so that workers don't need to leave to get a haircut.
The seats mostly depend on what trains u're on. Took a couple times the Frecciarossa 1st and executive class, they're nowhere near the regular class, there is also a closed conference room in those classes, and the food is also quite good
Wow now that's a good idea for an episode. Sprinkle in some buisnessmen so we can pretend that we're learning, give Simon a chance to talk about Richard Branson, and Danny a chance to talk about the ZX Spectrum guy. Make a part 2, part 3, part 7. I'd watch the hell outta that
I once worked for a company with offices in Italy, US and Taiwan. The facility in Taiwan was a factory that had some employee housing. The company had 100 small efficency apartments on the property connected to the factory. This was not way in the middle if nowhere. It was right in a large town close to groceries and shops for every need. It was like college dorms with shared bathrooms but there was a full bath for every five employees. It had a recreational room with a TV, pool table, video games and a full kitchen to have a party with food. They had a gym and swimming pool to work out as well. They were clean and nice. They provided three quarter to any employee that was under 25 that was working at least 20 hours a week if you were enrolled in school studying a subject the company could employ. The other twenty five percent was reserved for employees that were over 50 years old and working at least 25 hours a week. They had vacation leave, health insurance and many other benefits paid by the company. I was impressed.
I usually laugh when Simon preemptively shuts down peoples arguments against him, but for the first time he did it against me. I feel bad. Maybe I should do better.
@@brainblaze6526 I mean, sometimes sure. Not always. But that’s kind of a secondary point because you guys are still pretty fucking funny most of the time whether or not I think you’re right on Marx or whether you own me with facts and logic.
Most amusement parks have the equivalent of company towns today. I worked at Cedar Point (america's roller coast) for 3 different summers. 10 dollars a week for a 4 person dorm room with literally paper thin walls (it was a former 19th century hotel who's walls were made out of pressed cardboard) or 25 dollars a week for an apartment with 8 other people in a 3 bedroom apartment and no air conditioning. You ate most meals at the employee cafeteria and shopped in the employee store.
I'm not bullshitting you but when I'm hungover, feeling miserable and can't sleep I put on an playlist of business blaze till I pass out. So yeah, that was uplifting.
I must be told EVERY TIME that Danny writes the script. I (Simon) read it, add a few “Beep” jokes and Sam ads some of the DANKEST of memes. It’s not a Blaze session without being told who did what when and how! This is very serous business. Allegedly
World War One helped in usher laws like the Alien and Sedition Act where during a time of war, the country is considered to be in a state of emergency, which allows the government to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and Constitutional protections, often through the declaration of martial law. Several laws allowed the scope to be narrowed to individual persons, who no longer had the right to a speedy trial, ability to ask what the charges against them were, face their accuser in court, and left the possibility open for indefinite detention, even after the reinstatement of all previously suspended rights since the arrest took place during a time of martial law. Protesting the war was considered Sedition. Making the world safe of Democracy indeed. And since the USA didn't have a real casus beli to declare war on Germany until the Zimmerman telegram, the Lusitania was not enough by itself to satisfy Congress, at the same time of the Zimmerman telegram, both Britain and France goaded the US into entering the war by stating that if they lost, or the war kept going on for much longer, there would be no way they could pay back all their debts to American businesses, creditors, and the Federal government. It was pure war profiteering and was the direct cause of the Neutrality Act a couple decades down the line.
One of the best train experiences has to be a German ICE with an onboard restaurant - and beer on tab at the bar... followed closely by Austrian trains with a separate family waggon, including a playground...
Immediately as Simon suggested to Sam the appropriate Capitalist Theme, an ad for Glovo popped up with a just as appropriate promise to deliver Burger King quicker than any other fast food delivery service, Pullman trains whathaveyou. Lovely.
Lenin: "Listen guys, we can totally make communism work, all we need to do is" DIES OF MASSIVE BRAIN HEMORRAGE Stalin: "Um, crap. Uh... OK, let's just send them to prison." Molotov: "Who?" Stalin: "Yes." DIES OF MASSIVE BRAIN HEMORRAGE Khrushchev: "You guys, there's no way to make communism work because everyone is in jail. I'm just going to go yell at the UN until this all collapses or the world ends or we can get our own Disney park."
I recall a recent speech by a company executive covering their historical HR policies. Can't share the speech itself (There's a confidentiality agreement), but they summed up their 19th century policy as "Paternalism" - with people basically never before having worked in a factory in their region, they felt that providing extensive company-maintained infrastructure and strong scheduling through sponsoring community events was the best way to maximize the chance that workers would consistently show up to their shift on-time and reasonably sober. They noted that the system eventually caused severe problems when its rigidity constrained workers' freedoms outside the factory or failed to address a change in market conditions, which led to unionization to take the place of the company in its community.
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Please make a biographics on Paul kruger and Piet Retief
I go to Whistler every year and I must say I never saw any stickers that say HIGH TIME... especially after marijuana is legal now
Just FYI Simon you should definitely keep explaining how business blaze works during each video. after all your subscriber count for this channel is slowly but sadly going up so new people are joining.
Simon bring back the mega blaze, these are only good for one blunt, I need two blunt long videos. Signed, OG legend from video one!
That should be Skillshare's new motto. "Thanks for making me get my **** together Skillshare"
We need a channel where Simon is just given a random topic, and just has to rant about it for ten to twenty minutes. No script at all, no access to google (except through Siri voice activation).
So Business Blaze with less steps.
honesrliy I whould watch that.
Yes! I would watch that.
i would watch anything simon whistler honestly
That just sounds like Simon's podcast.
Plus, Danny's script and Sam's memes are half the fun.
"You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store"
"Cold, the air and water flowing
Hard, the land we call our home
Push, to keep the dark from coming
Feel the weight of what we owe"
Classic
Magic Spoon is definitely getting their money's worth with the sponsorship.
They're probably gonna contiue to sponsor one channel every couple of months and ship so much product to Simon that he keeps talking about it for months😂
Stuff looks good just cant justify spending like 10$ a box
@@Williamfuchs420 Better than 8 bucks for a sticker though.
@@Williamfuchs420 I know how you feel, I can barely justify buying cereal at $6 a box.
Too bad the product is way overpriced and not worth the money.
When Pullman's Capitalist Utopia sounds an awful lot like communism.
I had the same thought.
"NO, Pullman! This isnt the Guide to Capitalism! Its the wrong cover! You've been reading "How to work the soviet Union" all this time!"
Although they are so similar as to be indiscernible, the difference is who held the means of production. Pullman came from the wealthy class. In a communist state the authority would be people from a working class background, or at least those that could present evidence of such.
Pullman would have been in a camp or up against a firing squad and a former activist would have been calling those same or similar shots for the "greater good".
The saddest part is that your average worker won't get a say no matter what.
Pullman read "Das guide to Kapitalism" by a certain Karl Marx.
@@amaliapursell the capital in pretty much every communist state is usually controlled by the same people who make up the ruling class in whatever former system they had, baring the odd groups that are scapegoated, especially when you're dealing with a militarily enforced dictatorship where the previous state's military elite decide to reward themselves with the capital of the state
Seriously, this is your best channel. Don't stop Business Blaze or the Ghost of Marx will haunt you for he rest of your life, pawning all of your pants.
Trousers.
Noted.
"Google would solve your stupidity" needs to be on a shirt
Now that's a shirt I'd buy.
However, the back should also say, " It probably won't, but you'll look like less of an idiot."
@@jazzerzzz22 yes. It would be the perfect shirt
Followed by an "allegedly" because if we're being honest. Google sometimes hides facts. "DuckDuckGo would solve your stupidity" just doesn't have the same ring to it though.
There should be an addendum of, "except when it doesn't; it makes it worse."
"There's no company towns today"
Big tech companies: *cough*
yeah - still around. But not like there used to be. And I think he at least paid them in something other than company script - only redeemable at company store. That was 'f*ck your workers' 1.0 - but that did not go over too well in most places.
Hahahahaha!
Have you seen Samsung? They have their own ski resort which employees get to use for their annual company paid for holiday.
Samsung is like the Pullman of today in Korea. Without the dictatorship part. Hyundai and LG too. The Japanese Conglomerates are like that too, the Keiretsu. Met with a representative from Sumitomo, who introduced himself and then went on to say "Sumitomo started its business 600 years ago as a metal mining business" Oooh baby here we gooo
@@AvoidTheCadaver Foxcomm
Read the novel..."MicroSerf"
I live in Pullman, Washington. It used to be called Three Forks. If that sounds familiar, it's where you died of dysentery in Oregon Trails 😆
Always ford the river
Lol I lived there too but I couldn’t take the high rent and ridiculous amount of hills.
That's a shit claim to fame...🥁🥁TISH.
I love Cougar Gold cheese
@@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810 don't judge me man
“I am George Pullman, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Pullman, Illinois, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Pullman, Illinois can become your city as well.”
Pretty much.
Yup. That sounds about right.
When you build a town that focuses on rampant unregulated capitalism, you get either a collosial failure, or a civil war
Is Illinois underwater, because this place sounds familiar? 🤔
Am I the only one getting the Bioshock reference?
@@SegwayBossk Everyone got the reference to Rapture.
Magic spoon " Can do what ever you want for sponsorship"
Business blaze " Man got so much magic spoon I'm tripping over all the boxes"
Lol
Died of heart failure. How ironic. His heart, if he ever had one, had clearly failed years before he died.
BA DA BUM BUM TSSSSHHHH
@@DerptyDerptyDUM * Insert wild sizzle gif*
"That whole thing, eight hours work, eight hours play, eight hours sleep... That is a very recent invention." Good point Simon! Coincidentally, while it was a worldwide movement, it is often credited to the Haymarket Affair just a few miles from Pullman. Coincidence? It happened before Pullman's death and before his company had to give up the town. (This is also where the May 1st worker's holiday comes from.)
The Haymarket Affair is certainly worth a video, especially in 2020. It can remind us that change is messy and uncomfortable. The narrative is not always clean and scapegoats are often used to distract from the real issues affecting the people.
Simon: your an hour early for your delivery, how dare you!
Me, an American: my package was delivered perfectly on time, at 11PM when it was scheduled for 9am.
You’re just lucky you got it here. LOL!
@@FoolOfATuque I do have a couple of packages that were supposed to be delivered back in November... tracking info stops at "accepted"
@@donniebamberg1508 seems to be very common lately
@Kelas Enterprise maybe lockdown, but USPS was gutted by Trump.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas omg orangeman bad I agree
"This capitalist utopia sounds amazing. It should work in theory."
Sounds like something else that we know of...
It's almost like a mix of systems works the best, kinda like MOST countries do. Though most at least have Universal Health Care of some type. In the US, they hate each other and many hate black and brown people so much that they'd rather no one have it, than to think of POC of having it as well.
Yeah, but in capitalism, you have the government looking at the companies, and it's answerable to the people. In Communism, the people in charge of production are the people in charge of the government, so there's no one looking over the other's shoulder.
I owned a Skilled Laborer Pullman home for 20 years. Very interesting neighborhood, as there are elements that reveal different era’s of Chicago’s history.
I worked at a restaurant that was in one of the bigger manager’s houses a block east of the Hotel Florence, across from what had once been the plant. One of my coworkers lived in a row house a couple blocks away. I’d spend time before and after my shifts strolling through the neighborhood, nerding out over the architecture and history of the place.
A blaze I somehow missed, popping up in my feed two years on and reminding me of the pure joy of OGBB. Satified yet slightly melancholy nostalgia right now.
Simon: "There's no company towns anymore"
*In the US lookin at Hershey, Pennsylvania less than 200 miles away*
For real dude. I lived in Waynesboro for a while and i used to drive out towards Hershey and York for work. Hershey is one hell of an amazing "company town" for sure. Everything from their own theme park, schools, orphanage, etc etc. Great place man.
Norway we have a Island that's a company island. Only people who work there can live there.
@@systemspecchecker The problem is that you have to live in Pennsylvania
every town is a company town now, the companies have just fully integrated into the government so you dont notice.
There's Bagdad, Arizona, built around a copper mine. In Oklahoma we have several oil-related towns including Duncan and Ponca City. Perhaps not as bad as Pullman Town, but the company still dominates.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad,_Arizona
something tells me that Simon is the one locked in the basement and he's being forced to make all these videos. he's paid with pictures of trains and they feed him magic spoon cereal.
The real life Clone Wars. Maybe George Lucas was actually making a documentary about Simon's life with Star Wars
@@aceundead4750 Lucas was trying to free Simon but Disney jumped in & bought Star Wars to keep Simon as slave, that's why Simon made that video on Disney ... coincidence?!!
[*pikachu meme*]😮
Sometimes this feels true.
Hmm Pursuitforce that sounds just crazy enough to be true
2020 may be the first year where the past was better.
I could go outside in 2019!
You still can. Fuck "mandates"
@@nickchristian1590 right here!!! Or move that's what I did.
@@nickchristian1590 To be clear, not going outside is hyperbole.
true
@@nickchristian1590 FUCK THE POLICE
The past really was worse. Back then they had to deal with a deadly illness that was difficult to contain due to inadequate masks and people refusing to even wear those.
We sure are lucky to live in 2020! Oh hey wait a minute..
now I want Simon to cover the 1900-1994 San Francisco bubonic plague outbreak. It went on for years and a large part of that was because people just refused to believe it was real and even when doctors were like "yah, it's definitely bubonic plague" they were like "no it's not. The doctors are just in some kind of conspiracy" and then people were like dropping dead and they were still like "what plague?". And then eventually they admitted their was plague but there were like "oh, no no, it's fine, only Chinese immigrants can get it. Europeans are immune because they eat a lot of meat, Europeans could never get the plague". And then when they did admit it it went away in under a year...and again it lasted for 4 years so 3 years of that was people just denying it existed/was actually a problem. I'm so glad we learned from that and stopped being so stupid...we learned from that right guys...guys?
@@annegrey3780 San Francisco had the plague in 1994?
@@louiscypher4186 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904
1900-1904, Anne must have fat fingered the 9
We need a "The past was the worst" shirt
Simon, as an overly concerned electrician, I kindly request that you remove that fine American cup from the light fitting on your shelf. Unless it’s an LED, then you can likely ignore me
its an LED :)
What, electricians don’t like fire??
@@goawayihavecommentstomake1488 someone should tell that to the wankshafts that did the electric grid around here...
"Now you only work a third of the day, most people"
(Laughs in American)
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
Thats why I shit
On companies time
@@jyggalagdaedricprinceoford6239 holy fuck I love that little rhyme and your username is an Elder Scrolls reference. Marry me?
Soviet history: When you Communism so bad you Oligarchy.
I love the placement of the first youtube ad. Right when Simon starts to belt out the MacDonalds theme, I get a different tune, one for Vitamin Water.
I got a mcdonald's ad after Simon did the jingle, and then the meme played afterwards.... Mcdonald's inception?
Surely you mean "McCeption'?
Lies
EPIC
@@elduderino7519 Damnit. Beat me to iy
I love and hate context driven TH-cam ads. I got 3 ads for credit cards during the Communism video. And have never seen one again.
When he said the song of capitalism an ad came up, yep seems right
Same.... allegedly
Abdallah Zargelin I got an ad for a credit card. Perfect.
I hate ads, but I’d actually tolerate that if every time he said song of capitalism an ad played😂
Ads can be placed at certain times in your video. Clever placement ;)
He had to have done that on purpose
"You only work a third of the day, that was a recent invention."
idk, back to back 12 hour shifts 7 days a week seems to be in the vogue now
"The best we can hope for is to get you buried in private so that your grave don't get violated.". Benjamin Stern's lawyer in Heavy Metal
I've only found this channel a few months ago but after binge watching all the episodes Im technically Business Blaze LEGEND!
Have you watched them all until the end? 😇 Have you pondered the moral quandary of Danny and Sam being slaves in the basement 227000 subscribers know about it and won't help them because we can't risk the end of the Blaze? 😇
@@stephjovi I have...allegedly
@@c_6951 bada bum bum woosh!
It doesn’t matter when you join us. As long as you give overlord Simon all the watch time eventually. You absolute legend we’re glad to have you
Now go to early TopTenz videos and see how much beardless Simon scares you
Logged on tonight to see six brand new videos from Simons channels waiting to be viewed. Jackpot! Specifically:
•Business Blaze
•Top Tenz
•TIFO
•Megaprojects
•Geographics
•Biographics
Only ones missing:
•Side Projects
•Highlight History
•xplrd
But, all 3 of those have had something new posted within the past 6 days. Your work ethic is admirable. I tip my hat to you, Mr. Whistler!
Simon's chaotic energy gives me a reason to live. From the start I'm already laughing at just the sponsor plug 🤣
There are company towns. A pretty big one even that you might have heard of. Just a little place called Toyota in Japan
Simon keeping Danny in the basement does not count as your own town!
What about Danny AND Sam?
@@toymachine2328 see I don't think he has Sam. If he does Sam is giving him hell. Sam plays by his own rules. Poor Danny boy seems defeated and resigned to his plight in the basement chained to the radiator.
Getting close with Sam in there too.
@@brainblaze6526 one day!!! We will free your captors. At least tell me ETA is with them through these cold months? Did you think we forgot about him and his wealth of knowledge? Well we have not! Another example of how you use and abuse the people and things in your life.
@@brainblaze6526 Didn't I hear you were working on Callum from the Casual Criminalist as well? Pretty sure he mentioned that in one of those videos I recently saw...
Long comment time!
First of all, I've always been intrigued by company towns. My grandmother grew up in a coal mining company town in West Virginia in the 30s and 40s, and her stories about how things were and why she made sure to get out of there and go to college always fascinated me. On top of that, I currently live in a city that has grown to incorporate an area that used to be a Goodyear company town, a neighborhood called Atco in Cartersville, GA. The factory shut down decades ago and it's now one of the poorest parts of town, while being laid out perfectly and with classic looking homes that make you think the area could be rehabbed into being one of the nicest parts of town, with the right investment and development decisions.
I've always thought as company towns as being the old timey version of city simulation games like Sim City or Cities Skylines. They got to lay out what they thought was the best city plan, where various services and buildings should be located, what the laws should be, etc. To be fair, this was much the case during the colonial era as well, which was under a monarchic system instead of a truly capitalist one, and this sort of thing tends to be the rule instead of the exception in heavily communistic/socialistic societies, it's just that the thing that determines who get to play the game of Sim City differs between various systems. Doesn't matter the system, inexperienced people who are uneducated in the nuances of city planning will always screw it up by being heavy handed in the obvious aspects while being completely obvious to the more subtle aspects, especially the human psychology aspects.
Also, in regards to the commie getting charged with sedition for opposing the draft, that would be due to the Sedition Active signed by Woodrow Wilson. His disregard for free speech is one of many reasons that many consider him one of our worst presidents.
Sounds like we hold similar economic/political views. Idealistically, I'm an anarcho-capitalist, believing that if we all could work under the principles of the non-aggression principle, we could thrive under a capitalist system with no government. The problem is, reality exists and people are dicks and idiots, so I do believe we need some level of governance/law enforcement/social net to mitigate the dickishness and lack of knowledge of many if not most people, to some extent or another.
No matter what the system is called, communism or capitalism, the reason the political system needs checks and balances with the regular people having a real uncensored voice, is because ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely?
Except that you are forced to participate in government. Not so with capitalism.
@@BrighamMike everyone participates in capitalism in a capitalist system. If not you will end up living in a tent under the freeway. Workers trade labor for money. Capitalists make money selling the products from that labor. I’m not sure what your comment really means.
@@FoolOfATuque government forces a tax on you to pay for items. In capitalism your involvement is of your own free will. There are ways to live outside of capitalism. Not so for government.
@@jbird4478 I'm sorry I couldnt hear you with that statist boot in your mouth. Mise started with but muh roads.
My girlfriend and I were browsing TH-cam after dinner together and when she scrolled by your videos about themed restaurants I stared longingly at the blaze before my eyes. Then the cursor moved back and I filled with joy, she clicked on your video and I knew she wouldn’t understand. I told her how happy I was that she started to blaze, little did I know we would watch like 5 minutes of rambling and then she’d click off. It’s all right though I’ve already seen that one. She couldn’t deal with the heat of the blaze
I love the living shit out of Simon, even more so since the start of Business Blaze and his love for cocaine. But I would never, ever hire him to do an advertisement for me.
Bless you, Simon.
Idk. I never seen an ad reads this authentic, and they are entertaining enough where I don't try to skip over them.
@@badluck5647 yes! Maybe one day the advertisers will figure out its better when ads are the way Simon does them.
Probably for the best.
@@badluck5647 Mista GG has great ad reads too, has a couple channels, totally different tone than any of Simon's.
Sorry Simon but Internet Comment Etiquette is the absolute King of ads you don't ever want to skip over.
I fell down a god damn mountain in Whistler when I was backpacking there.
I came to a stop because I rolled into a parked truck and left a pretty good dent in it where I landed.
Luckily it was getting dark and no one saw, and I wasn't too injured to slowly get away. God damn steep slope with a no trespassing sign more than half way up, but you could only read it from like a foot away. I was gonna try to camp, and then I see that and had to try and turn around.
That was a rough night. I ended up just going to 'town' and sitting on the docks watching the beautiful surroundings. All in all a good time, but I was sore to say the least, for a while.
"They're definitely not going to be able to go to the library now" sounds like it should be a widespread expression, or at least a t-shirt.
*"Why X?"* _Groans_ *"I know why, but it's still annoying."*
That little phrase sums up so many things in this world.
don't worry simon, the song of capitialism is universally recognized as the symbol of being extremely wealthy, and selling bad food by the 1/4 pound
I live in North Vancouver just about 2 hours drive from whistler, I might be able to get that sticker for you (if it still exists)
“And now you only work 1/3 of your day, well most people”
This made me cry in American, the land of the 50-60 hour work week lol.
Subtract at least 2 hours from play/sleep to get ready for work and travel there and back.
I take it you're not enjoying your "superior work ethic", aka getting roped into working more for less?
Lets be honest here, if youre only working 50 hrs, someone is looking down on you for it.
Haha I'm working full-time at 36 hours a week tops. And somehow I'm a manager of 60+ people.
Got to love Europe.
37.4 hrs as mandated by law here in Australia. Although over time is generally factored into your full time salary. Unless of course you work on an hourly rate in which case you may get penalty rates
15:45 been there, and done that. Recommend wake n' bake as the sun rises over the mountains. Pure calming bliss.
You forgot the legal cocaine in the past Simon.
the best
how do i always know there's a new blaze even when i haven't been near my phone to get the notification?
Maybe i love this channel too much. Or, maybe i just love learning about business... Ha!
Oh hell the like disappeared.
Simon, your laugh of shame for snacking on "too much" cereal, is highly relatable. 🤦♂️🤣🤣
On a much unrelated note...... Seeing Simon in a tux on the thumbnail..... Well!!!!! 😯🥵🥵🥵🥵
You are Awesome! Your delivery reminds me so much of my cousin and I going on about things, I love it
The only thing business about this channel is the fact that videos come out during the weekday lol
Chicago's "official" motto "urbs in horto" or “city in a garden”
Chicago's "real talk" motto "Mostis Corruptus Urbs in Mid-Westus"
Pullman, the second best to show the downside of capitalism, right after Martin Shkreli.
“Back on the right track” was a missed ba da bum bum tsss moment Sir Simon
shit.
BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHHSHSHSHSHSHSHS
@@brainblaze6526 you tried
Damn Simon you didn’t need to call me out like that before the video has even begun! Please blaze on
That's one way to start a video 🤣
I'm a Chicagoland native, I've been to Pullman. The stories are amazing.
According to one legend the architect, Solon Spencer Beman, requested in lieu of some pay that the town be named after him. After it was named "Pullman" George Pullman allegedly told Berman was told it was...a combination of both of their names.
Isn’t this...the basis for Andrew Ryan’s city of Rapture?
....At least he's not Zachary Comstock building Columbia....
Oh wait....
Passenger cars sound wonderful. Our rail lines are mostly freight trains dozens of cars of oil! The tracks pass several schools and many homes and businesses.
It's like living by a ticking time bomb. Like that town in Canada, train caught fire and blew up half of the town. They have a memorial art park. The new parts are weird super modern.
I know Simon doesn't care, but just for versimilitude, it's the Calumet (Kal-you-MET) River.
Company towns do exist, they just aren't for industrial workers. Go to any tech company and their offices basically have an entire city inside of them. The Facebook head office even has a barber shop in it so that workers don't need to leave to get a haircut.
nothing makes me more sympathetic to communism than seeing capitalism at work
note: the opposite is also true.
Communism never really worked out except for Cuba I suppose, Socialism and especially Democratic Socialism however is a much better option.
The seats mostly depend on what trains u're on.
Took a couple times the Frecciarossa 1st and executive class, they're nowhere near the regular class, there is also a closed conference room in those classes, and the food is also quite good
I live in Vancouver, Whistler is expensive AF
They definitely make those high times stickers still and Whistler is in BC. Some good kush.
Honestly, it was a capitalist utopia... for the capitalist in question.
I live south of Whistler and it is a great place. You should visit one day.
You should make a list of the most Legendary Legends who ever Legended
Wow now that's a good idea for an episode. Sprinkle in some buisnessmen so we can pretend that we're learning, give Simon a chance to talk about Richard Branson, and Danny a chance to talk about the ZX Spectrum guy. Make a part 2, part 3, part 7.
I'd watch the hell outta that
@@jonathanpryzby4029 I had that idea after watching the Lord Timothy Dexter video.
Allegedly
But. There would only be 1 name on it
Simon Whistler
I once worked for a company with offices in Italy, US and Taiwan. The facility in Taiwan was a factory that had some employee housing. The company had 100 small efficency apartments on the property connected to the factory. This was not way in the middle if nowhere. It was right in a large town close to groceries and shops for every need. It was like college dorms with shared bathrooms but there was a full bath for every five employees. It had a recreational room with a TV, pool table, video games and a full kitchen to have a party with food. They had a gym and swimming pool to work out as well. They were clean and nice. They provided three quarter to any employee that was under 25 that was working at least 20 hours a week if you were enrolled in school studying a subject the company could employ. The other twenty five percent was reserved for employees that were over 50 years old and working at least 25 hours a week. They had vacation leave, health insurance and many other benefits paid by the company. I was impressed.
I usually laugh when Simon preemptively shuts down peoples arguments against him, but for the first time he did it against me. I feel bad. Maybe I should do better.
He doesn’t really do that though. He just says “oh you’re wrong”
@@joma5721 I do both. The arguments are shut down because they are wrong.
@@brainblaze6526 I mean, sometimes sure. Not always. But that’s kind of a secondary point because you guys are still pretty fucking funny most of the time whether or not I think you’re right on Marx or whether you own me with facts and logic.
ALWAYS TRUE MATTHEW.
Consider yourself shutdown.
It's easy Simon, America = Contradictory. I believe there's a whole South Park episode about it.
Stopped in the middle of another video when I saw this one was up. Time to blaze! And the McDonad's joke was PERFECT.
Same
If you like skiing, snow, and mountains, you'll like Whistler.
I was not expecting to see Pocoyo on Business Blaze
but I like it
Most amusement parks have the equivalent of company towns today. I worked at Cedar Point (america's roller coast) for 3 different summers. 10 dollars a week for a 4 person dorm room with literally paper thin walls (it was a former 19th century hotel who's walls were made out of pressed cardboard) or 25 dollars a week for an apartment with 8 other people in a 3 bedroom apartment and no air conditioning. You ate most meals at the employee cafeteria and shopped in the employee store.
I'd really like to see a propper sit down debate with simon and Oily Thorn.
It's so weird to come back to Simon after falling down the bread tube rabbit hole lol. Still love them both in their own ways.
Blaze is back! I wish Simon did more business stories.. as a greedy capitalist I find them so inspiring.
ASMR channel where Simon reads stories please 😌🙏
I would subscribe to that!
I'm not bullshitting you but when I'm hungover, feeling miserable and can't sleep I put on an playlist of business blaze till I pass out.
So yeah, that was uplifting.
Simon needs another channel and I think this has huge potential.
I must be told EVERY TIME that Danny writes the script. I (Simon) read it, add a few “Beep” jokes and Sam ads some of the DANKEST of memes.
It’s not a Blaze session without being told who did what when and how! This is very serous business. Allegedly
He said train spotting is sad...my brain goes to Ewan McGregor in “Trainspotting” and got very confused why he then said it wasn’t...
different kind of transporting ;D
I like it how the once tidy stacks of solo cups have begun taking over more and more things as hats, the true solo cup experience.
Yes, Simon, that is the McDonald's theme in America. Lol.
I grew up in Chicago. The Pullman neighborhood nowadays is actually quite an economically depressed area.
Twitter:
No twits allowed.
Many people are breaking these rules.
World War One helped in usher laws like the Alien and Sedition Act where during a time of war, the country is considered to be in a state of emergency, which allows the government to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and Constitutional protections, often through the declaration of martial law. Several laws allowed the scope to be narrowed to individual persons, who no longer had the right to a speedy trial, ability to ask what the charges against them were, face their accuser in court, and left the possibility open for indefinite detention, even after the reinstatement of all previously suspended rights since the arrest took place during a time of martial law. Protesting the war was considered Sedition. Making the world safe of Democracy indeed. And since the USA didn't have a real casus beli to declare war on Germany until the Zimmerman telegram, the Lusitania was not enough by itself to satisfy Congress, at the same time of the Zimmerman telegram, both Britain and France goaded the US into entering the war by stating that if they lost, or the war kept going on for much longer, there would be no way they could pay back all their debts to American businesses, creditors, and the Federal government. It was pure war profiteering and was the direct cause of the Neutrality Act a couple decades down the line.
Finally your boy with the blaze is back!! 🙏🤘🔥😁 Thanks to Danny and Sam too.... But where's ETA now it's winter again?? 🤔🤔
Sacrificed to the God of Boilers to ensure it doesn't fucking break again?
Keeping Danny and Sam warm in the basement?
Simon is riding it. Boy has to live his dreams.
@@gamershadow1 That's ETA's dream, yeah?
Also the Brian the meme accountant is on strike until ETA returns
One of the best train experiences has to be a German ICE with an onboard restaurant - and beer on tab at the bar... followed closely by Austrian trains with a separate family waggon, including a playground...
I feel like this would be the point someone says; not real capitalism!
It was real capitalism, and it was BASED
They do do that.
I mean, if communism does it, why not capitalism too?
Yeah if this strawman works against 'communism' it works on 'captilalism' too
It was REAL capitalism... and it was great! Nobody was forced to do anything, nobody died and only Pullman and his investors lost money.
The absolute best line in this video: "Google will solve your stupidity." Take a bow Simon and Danny!
😂🤣💻🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Any political system has to be managed carefully or it will run off the rails.
Power corrupts.
Off. The. Rails?
BADA BUM DUM DUM TSHHH
@@freesk8 power corrupts, ideology is just wrapping paper.
@@StigmataTickles For nearly all politicians, you are correct.
Kick back, relax, and Blaze with your Boi Simon.
Unrestricted communism: "you don't own your house, we do; now work".
Unrestricted capitalism: "you don't own your house, we do: now work".
Carl markx's poverty is, if anything, proof he really believed in his ideals.
Your right, like laziness.
And a person in a full body cast because they jumped off the roof really believes they can fly. Doesn't make them right.
Yeah his ideas work great until you run out of other people's money.
@@randylahey8434 there is no money in communism :')
Immediately as Simon suggested to Sam the appropriate Capitalist Theme, an ad for Glovo popped up with a just as appropriate promise to deliver Burger King quicker than any other fast food delivery service, Pullman trains whathaveyou. Lovely.
Yo, get Danny to do a script about Eugene Debs!
YES, you must keep explaining that Danny writes the script, that Sam adds the memes and you read and slap the script. Best bits of the videos!
"I owe my soul to the company store" comes to mind
Edit: Again, an other Simon video while I am traveling around post war Appalachia. 🙃
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Saint Peter, don't you call me home...
@@mcpossum done sold my soul to the company stoooww
The irony of complaining about capitalism in the wasteland where capitalism is prime.
@@BrighamMike Caps. Caps are king.
*tosses you a Nukashine
Lenin: "Listen guys, we can totally make communism work, all we need to do is" DIES OF MASSIVE BRAIN HEMORRAGE
Stalin: "Um, crap. Uh... OK, let's just send them to prison."
Molotov: "Who?"
Stalin: "Yes." DIES OF MASSIVE BRAIN HEMORRAGE
Khrushchev: "You guys, there's no way to make communism work because everyone is in jail. I'm just going to go yell at the UN until this all collapses or the world ends or we can get our own Disney park."
Try Pink Floyd's, Money for a good Capitalism theme song.
I recall a recent speech by a company executive covering their historical HR policies. Can't share the speech itself (There's a confidentiality agreement), but they summed up their 19th century policy as "Paternalism" - with people basically never before having worked in a factory in their region, they felt that providing extensive company-maintained infrastructure and strong scheduling through sponsoring community events was the best way to maximize the chance that workers would consistently show up to their shift on-time and reasonably sober. They noted that the system eventually caused severe problems when its rigidity constrained workers' freedoms outside the factory or failed to address a change in market conditions, which led to unionization to take the place of the company in its community.
Theme for capitalism? I'd like to nominate Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good.
My maseratti does 185 i lost my license now i dont drive
"Lost In America" by Alice Cooper.
This sounds more feudalistic than capitalistic.