UK versus Scandinavian Economies
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An explanation into the differences between the United Kingdom and Scandinavian economies, explaining why the Scandinavian countries improved their economies, what is harming them, why they are different to the U.K. economy in correlation to why it contradicts many of the Scottish Nationalists.
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The Great Depression: New Deal Myth Refuted
The new deal myth of the Great Depression is something every bit as ridiculous as the myth of the Robber Barons and something I hear all too often. As I have touched upon before relative to the Great Depression, the crisis itself was caused via the interventionist policies, after the Federal Reserve in 1922 using Open Market Operations, they manipulated the interest rates, changed the reserve ratios and temporarily stripped away the Gold Standard running the printing press. All of which led to the 1929 Great Depression.
In this video I briefly touch upon Hoover that gives you an insight that he was anything but Laissez-faire at that time, as well as addressing the myth surrounding FDR and unemployment. The statistics provided is in plain English, for sources of those 3 tables, you can find them here:
• source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Historical Statistics of the United States (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, 73.
• source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Historical Statistics of the United States (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, 139.
•source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Historical Statistics of the United States (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, 179.
It is also important to note that the reason for why unemployment fell slightly down to 14.6 percent by 1940 it was because millions were conscripted into the military to fight abroad in the Second World War. Hardly an argument of job creation and no mention from the boy about the 'Roosevelt Recession'.
You could see from FDR's monopolistic policy of forcing prices up through restricting productive output was harmful, but the boy quickly skipped around that, rather quite convenient given the same socialists harped off about how evil the so-called 'Robber Barons' were claiming they drove prices up to shaft the consumer, even although such information is false.
You can watch Tom Woods full video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jYIOzm5Mg&t=82s
And here are some sources that illustrate the failure of the $15 minimum wage proving what happens as a consequence of trying to argue with the laws of supply and demand:
• https://fee.org/articles/real-world-examples-of-how-the-minimum-wage-harms-workers/
•https://fee.org/articles/ontario-s-minimum-wage-hike-has-been-disastrous-especially-for-disabled-workers/
• https://fee.org/articles/the-costs-of-nyc-s-15-minimum-wage/
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Cantillon Effect: Consequences of Inflation
I have touched upon what inflation is in the past and where it derives from, however, for the purpose of this video I have decided to explain further on request relative to the consequences of inflation. I've mentioned in the past how the devaluation of the currency doesn't affect the rich and that as a result of the distortion of the interest rates wrong signals were sent out to investors and this certainly proved the case with inflation.
In this video I explain briefly on profits and losses, the importance price signals play, why inflation benefits the rich, as well as the malinvestment problem created through the Catillon effect.
If you have trouble understanding, market-driven prices would only drive up the price of whatever the consumer is in demand of in a free market, whereas inflation drives up the price of more or less everything which includes such goods the market wasn't initially in demand of, therefore, it distorts the signals and the higher price makes it appear that such goods are in demand, when in real fact it is the illusion inflation created.
It is a direct consequence of this for why malinvestment takes place, not only from those getting a hold of the newly created money first spending to compete to take what is currently out to reallocate resources, capital and labour, but the distortion inflation caused in of itself, which explains why the economic calculation problem doesn't just occur via government price controls and is natural to this mixed economy.
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HR Recruiter Goes Viral on TikTok: My Libertarian Perspective
I recently came across this HR Recruiter video that went viral on Tiktok that made its way to Facebook, a tad different from what I'm used to seeing coming across from TikTok, but sadly of no real great surprise, this HR Recruiter boasts smugly of how anyone outside her political views will be treated with utter contempt and struggle to find work.
I've long argued before and only briefly touched upon it in this video that identity politics from the Left crept its way in mixed with the cancel culture whereby everyone remotely to the right of communism have become a symbol of fascism, nazism and white supremacy, which is a very dangerous game to play.
As I have argued, this woman is more or less implying anyone who dares to think for themselves and fights for liberty with intellectual arguments are to be treated with the most utter contempt and prevented from ever having a job.
This view really is akin to something you would expect from dictatorships like that of the past such as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union where censorship was akin to Twitter former employees. I suspect she has lost the plot since Elon Musk's takeover, which is quite amusing, even the Twitter employee claiming that we're somehow 'Nazis' for supporting freedom of speech and acknowledging biological facts.
Something these people simply do not understand, and especially in response to her sarcastic patronising tone, is that economic and biological facts don't care about her feelings, neither subject does for that matter. People don't say things to be nasty, but facts are facts.
I suspect she was fired from her position, which wouldn't surprise me as such a job would require treating all customers with upmost respect and not telling people that you 'hate' them just because they think differently.
We saw the danger of the cancel culture with the likes of the Free Speech Union having been cancelled out by Paypal, there was also talk in the past about Squarespace cancelling out websites which didn't subscribe to their political favour, partly a reason for precaution I began working towards getting my proper business site built from scratch on my own server on Hugo.
Such division does nothing to help matters, whilst I may passionately debate such issues, it is socialism which I hate, I'm not going to sit and say I hate people just because I disagree with them, much like Vaush, I'll never understand him, but deep down I see him as a person who I'd wish the best for like anyone. People often wrongly confuse such a passionate debate with that, which is fair enough, people often take from face value.
My Libertarian perspective on the entire thing is that it is very silly of her to have such a view and hopefully she has learned her lesson. I'm not even please for her losing her job if that is the case, but it's the harsh reality. I personally from my perspective fight for freedom because I wish the betterment of the economy for everyone, I don't just do it for myself and that's what splits me apart and other Libertarians and true conservatives from people as divisive as that.
I experienced enough division here in my country Scotland due to the independence referendum, but since then the dust has settled after years and my pride and love for my nation has slowly crept back in and I'm not about to let such divisive people change that for the world. In other words, I believe a free society is the only thing which can sow the divisions that exist, take Ireland as a prime example, only liberty can people put aside and peacefully coexist.
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Freedom: Refuting Vaush on Freedom
As always, socialists love to project and make up baseless claims as they go along, Vaush being no exception to this as he persistently makes up nonsense about capitalism and even goes as far as to redefine the entire meaning of slavery. Funny enough, everything he describes relative to what isn't freedom just happens to apply to his own sick minded ideology, socialism in the real world.
Freedom has nothing to do with slavery and as I've stated numerous times before, you cannot for the life of you take away the freedom of an individual to owning their own property, nor taking away their individual rights only then to pretend you stand for liberty. The fact Vaush goes as far as to completely negate the fact you have the freedom to up sticks and leave a company tells you everything.
His argument that the business owner has total control ignores the fact it is his private business, that's a bit like walking into someone's house and trying to dictate to them in their own house how they should live or what you can do. As usual, no concept of private ownership. Also, without private property rights it is impossible to have personal ownership of possessions, it's the private property rights that outline and define what you own, a fact socialists seem to think they can bend to redefine the entire meaning of socialism because they know that to concede to communal ownership and central planning is the indefensible.
You cannot on one hand claim you stand for liberty, only then to try and control people and try to take away their freedom of their own rights and what they can or cannot own. Even his argument of positive freedom is erroneous, collectivism is a contradiction of everything freedom stands for, the attempt to try and create the equality he dreams of ends up creating the opposite, but more importantly requires control which is the antithesis of liberty.
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Child Labour: Industrial Revolution to Present—Refuting Viki1999
There is a lot of misinformation surrounding the history relative to child labour, especially in correlation to the industrial revolution of Britain or the United States, whether it was the claim of children forced into working in the factories along with their mothers, or children beaten up, more importantly, however, painting that period as if the term children was just all one, as if they were all the one group.
Whilst Viki1999 uses the present day in reference to child labour, there is correlation to the past, such as the poorer countries who are having to go through their own industrialisation to get to where we are today. Viki's assumption is that they can just go from A to Z overnight and it's the fallacy of staring at their living conditions and wages and then erroneously comparing that to our own.
As I've addressed, capitalism even within this mixed economy, has been the driving force for the improvement of the workplace relative to wages, workweek hours, safety, etc. This changes the face of socialists arguments, especially what Viki1999 tries to claim. Viki has attempted to redefine the meaning of child labour to solely fit around dangerous industry and children forced against their will, problem with Viki's argument is, however, you don't get to just change the meaning of child labour to suit your own agenda whenever it suits.
The truth is, there are many safe industry today children are more than capable of working in, especially when it comes to computers doing graphic design, programming, etc. The reason Viki tries to exclude all of that is because it flies in the face of the argument Viki is trying to make.
Viki1999 concedes that poverty is the main driving force for child labour, but then ignores that those countries suffered at the hands of socialism. Her solution to get rid of capitalism in of itself, as well as thinking that more money would somehow solve the problem not only proves Viki doesn't understand inflation and where it derives from, but also that she doesn't comprehend why such an attempt to get rid of the private sector would lead to economic disaster, which I've touched upon many times before.
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Refuting Yugopnik: Why Gamers Should NOT Be Against Capitalism
People like Yugopnik are completely ignorant of the fundamental basics of economics and like every other socialist he blames capitalism for every flaw there is. However, as I've argued many times before, the world isn't perfect and like all socialists, he doesn't understand prices.
Yugopnik illustrates this with his ignorance of what profits are, he merely views every transaction as a one-way street, as if the consumer is not a beneficiary of transactions only looking where the money goes. Like I've pointed out numerous times before, profits and losses are two of the most important pieces of information required for understanding consumers needs and wants.
Without him going into detail, you can tell what his so-called solution is, which would end in catastrophe. Like I've noted before, it's capitalism in this mixed economy that made all this technology possible and as for the Soviet Union, it got all of its technology from the West.
Without capitalism, relative to the previous argument I made on inflation, you'd be faced plunging toward hyperinflation and if he argues for a moneyless based economy, that's just as bad, that would prove he doesn't comprehend the need for money in order for trade to take place, as well as the requirement of price information signals to convey what consumers needs and wants are.
Game designers have a tough job trying to please people given that they can only go by what people are spending on. They also know that it is very difficult to please everyone, like the Assassin's Creed series, there are those they will please and others they will disappoint.
Perhaps Yugopnik has a reasonable point on some issues about production time and repetition, but I think that may have more to do with the available technology today, such as the power of the average consoles and computers, as well as the larger the games are, the greater the memory they take up. Therefore, comparing a game the size of Odyssey including all expansions to previous titles, the larger games would take up a lot more memory. I would imagine the more powerful technology grows, the more flexibility game designers will have in game design.
He assumes that game designers merely put out quantity over quality, as if that's their sole concentration, but such an argument ignores that in order for you to make more sales on those type of games, you have to provide some quality at least. Assassin's Creed Valhalla I thought was a high quality game, but there were the critiques talking about repetition, etc. This is the point, you're not going to please everyone.
It's also important to note, businesses need to try and produce quality to some extent to make sales, it's not a case where they can just completely bat it aside and then guarantee sales. Clearly they make sales from games they're putting out as people are willing to pay for them.
All that being said, thinking that moving towards a strongly socialist based economy is going to fix all the imperfections is simply ludicrous, not only would you end up with your economy decimated not being able to afford anything, you'd destroy the incentive for innovation and productivity.
You can check out my argument on profits and losses that correlate to the economic calculation problem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbbFVKWdhI
His argument is really just a repetition and I don't find it a rational critique of capitalism at all, especially when he doesn't provide his so-called 'solutions'. I found myself reading many of the critiques on recent Assassin's Creed games and if you want my honest opinion, the critiques are overboard and I feel like today's young gamers have become so pampered and spoiled. Whereas, someone like myself who came from an age where we had Amstrad computers with graphics that were 10 times worse than Playstation one, where you literally had to type "Run Badcat" to play games, these young ones cannot see how good they have it.
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Katie Porter MASTERCLASS of Economic Illiteracy: MeidasTouch Refuted
Too often I have seen people throwing around the word inflation loosely correlating rising prices with that of inflation. Whilst it may be true that inflation will cause prices to increase, it's not so much that prices are driving up as a result of inflation, it's that the currency is devaluing in purchasing power.
In other words, people like MeidasTouch, or Katie Porter and the guy she was questioning, for that matter, do not understand that the cause of inflation is not merely corporations or businesses earning profits. Again, a cause of inflation is not the same thing as prices rising from what inflation causes.
So what causes inflation, what does inflation mean?
Inflation simply means the quantity of the monetary supply has been vastly increased far above and beyond the quantity of the goods in the market that it is chasing, which is why $1 was equal to the value of 1 product in 1913. Through the vast increase of running the printing press, not only did this cause the currency to devalue in purchasing power, that's what causes prices to increase.
So inflation simply means that there is more of the monetary supply in circulation of the economy over that of the quantity of the goods that are produced. In other words, money is of no exception to the laws of supply and demand; print more, the less scarce the paper currency becomes, the less value it holds. That's why wages are rendered almost worthless and people find themselves working 2 to 3 jobs to make ends meet, not because you have "greedy" companies.
Whilst I acknowledge there is a problem with today's economy littered with monopolies, oligopolies and cartels, that we currently have corporotocracy both here in Britain and in the United States, which is a latter stage of corporatism, it doesn't change or hide the fact that corporate profits has no bearing on the price or even what inflation is, or what drives inflation.
MeidasTouch I have come across before through someone I will keep private and is quite a reasonable sound minded guy, I think is involved in investment? Not sure, but the fact he fails to comprehend inflation is quite astounding to me, but more so the likes of Katie Porter, she clearly hasn't got a clue and it sounds to me like she's targeting that business guy over how much they're earning in profits, as if to blame that for the cause of inflation.
I've never seen something so ignorant in my life, and if blaming inflation for the wrong thing, it proves that they are not tackling the root cause of the problem, they aren't providing any rational solution.
Given that social security and the welfare state cost a bomb and the taxpayers money is nowhere near enough to pay for either and the country has been running the printing press for years, then facing the banking crisis with all the bailouts of the banks resulting in inflation soaring, only then to lockdown the economy in 2020 with a lot of private companies closed for a year being furloughed, is it any surprise why inflation is so far out of control?
I fear the worst, because this proves when MeidasTouch puts out a video and gets 8,000+ likes for proving none of them understand inflation, we're in deep trouble.
As for socialists!? Good luck trying to combat inflation via nationalisation, the more you nationalise, the smaller the pool you have to tax from the private sector, and if you heavily nationalise like here in Britain had prior to Thatcher, you're forced to pay for a heavy bloated public sector via the printing press. Why else you think Thatcher was left with an ultimatum: sell the oil industry to save us from hyperinflation, or face the consequence of hyperinflation as a result of the damage socialism caused? Now you know why Thatcher took action as she did. Those who hated her were those who don't know a single thing about economics.
You can watch his video here:
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Raised Interest Rates: Robert Reich Doesn't Understand Inflation
There's been the recent news surrounding the raised interest rates and as was requested to check out and respond on Robert Reich's take, it really doesn't surprise me that he hasn't got the slightest clue about what the solution the problem of inflation is, but also has no clue what inflation is.
Robert Reich thinks it's a case that wealth is increased consumer spending, like all socialists, they don't understand that spending what you don't have and pushing yourself into soaring debt never solves a problem and is why we ended up in this mess to begin with.
The reckless borrowing and spending to pay for all the social security and welfare programs, etc, has more or less caught up on people. Like I argue, there's only so much you'll get away with borrowing out of thin air for what didn't exist in the first place. As I've touched upon, the lockdowns merely accelerated the recession and has been long coming because of the reckless Keynesians.
Keynesians much like Marxists really don't like being told that we must live within our means, which is the reason Robert Reich hates the thought of raised interest rates. I've touched upon before in the past on the banking crisis of 2008 for why the artificial fixing lower of the interest rates caused the boom and bust cycle, all Robert Reich would do is exacerbate the crisis, after all, the more spending will come from the continual running of the printing press.
These are the same people on CNN who would wish for universal healthcare, they would essentially bankrupt the nation, which is quite convenient the likes of Reich claim to protect the poor.
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Socialism and Innovation: Refuting Second Thought
Second Thought as per usual persists on lying to his viewers that we somehow live in a capitalist system today, a common theme you find amongst all these socialists I respond to they love to sit and pretend that they're not living in a mixed economy, but rather, a capitalist system as to exonerate socialism of the blame. Much like Current Affairs, Second Thought projects the blame off onto the market for the problems government creates.
In this example, as a result of the corporatist system and government over-regulating the private sector, the government is the culprit for harming business innovation, especially with such things like quality and quantity controls, etc.
Nonetheless, like I have pointed out so many times, living under a socialist economy, you wouldn't have any freedom, you'd be living subjugated to slavery to that of the central planner who would dictate everything. A reason I have provided my own person argument relative to Scottish history is because Scotland was a very innovative, influential nation on the modern world, yet, as you will see, the impact Scotland had on the modern world didn't come until the mid 18th century, by his logic, Scotland would have been just as innovative, if not more prior to those years.
Whilst I may not hold the knowledge of where technology comes from as he could may well be right about specific things, it is important to do independent research rather than just accept what he says as gospel, even then, the following articles I will provide you should be able to read with an independent mind to make your own mind up.
Much like the Soviet Union as I pointed out, they got all of their technology from the West as they were being financed by anti-capitalists in the likes of the United States. His claims about governments financing things, however, are questionable, even then, trying to claim that voluntary action of free thinking individuals producing open source code is somehow socialism is laughable to say the least. Just because someone is not done for the sake of money doesn't mean it isn't part of the market, markets provide free services just as there is paid content.
Again, even the argument relative to the internet is erroneous as it wasn't the government who made it widely accessible to the masses, but that of the market. The article I illustrated outlines the argument creating an important distinction which I think people should read and make their own mind up.
Don't Thank the Government For Your Iphone:
•https://fee.org/articles/dont-thank-the-government-for-your-iphone/
The Hidden Hold Up to American Innovation:
•https://fee.org/articles/the-hidden-hold-up-to-american-innovation/
This following article illustrates how lobbying harmed Apple, thus Apple isn't the fault for producing cheap quality charge cables. This correlates to Second Thought's erroneous claim as if businesses are just out to get you for profits. This article illustrates damage caused via government intervention, again.
This is the Real Reason Your iPhone Cables Break:
https://fee.org/articles/this-is-the-real-reason-your-iphone-cables-break/
This following article backs up the original from FEE and makes the solid point that if not for the private sector taxpayer, government wouldn't have the money to finance and is not a wealth creator either, the Mercedes example sounds all too familiar, much like how government is trying to force the market onto electric motors, but most people wouldn't be able to afford that.
Capital Accumulation, Not Government, Key To Technological Innovation:
https://mises.org/wire/capital-accumulation-not-government-key-technological-innovation
Again, you can also check out my argument on the economic calculation problem.
• Economic Calculation Problem: Profits and Losses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbbFVKWdhI
• Economic Calculation Problem: Extended Explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjzofn0qzQ4
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Capitalism DOES Make You Free: Refuting Current Affairs
Current Affairs makes the argument that capitalism doesn't make you free, however, such a claim is erroneous. The basis of his entire argument is based off today's economy and how he can base things off of what you have today when it is a mixed economy, a corporatist system, therefore and the private sector is over-regulated.
As per usual he is yet another who spouts the usual nonsense about the gilded age, surprise, surprise; a believer that somehow the likes of Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanfords and Vanderbilts were apparently these evil monopolists who sought to shaft the consumer. Of course, none of this is true and the only people who believe that to be true are those who have no clue about the history to see how wrong it is.
Even the claims Current Affairs make regarding the so-called dangerous concentration of wealth by today's standards is overly exaggerated, whilst there are problems today created by corporatism, he attempts to pass this off as the fault of capitalism. The typical example of socialist government intervention creating a problem in the market and then projecting the blame off onto the market.
A fine example for this you can see from his argument relative to healthcare, as if to claim that the fault of private pharmaceutical companies driving prices up to shaft the consumer was to blame on the market, even although government intervention created the problem.
The fact he thinks he can replace a system involving profits and losses with "solidarity" should be enough to make you laugh. If you wish to learn more on this topic issue, you can watch both my videos I explain on the economic calculation problem relative to profits and losses and the fuller explanation on the economic calculation problem itself.
• Economic Calculation Problem: Profits and Losses.
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• Economic Calculation Problem: Extended Explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjzofn0qzQ4
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Capitalism is not Collectivist: Refuting Current Affairs
Capitalism is not collectivist, unfortunately, there are way too many people out there, like Current Affairs, who have absolutely no clue whatsoever of what defines individualism and collectivism, their perception of both are very vague and they misconstrue the meaning of both terms.
A common misinterpretation of individualism is the perception people have where they think it means every man for himself and that collectivism somehow means people working collectively together. You can tell this particular individual hasn't a clue about collectivism when he erroneously correlates collectivism with consent relative to individual choice, when in reality, there is no such thing as consent relative to collectivism.
Throughout every regime where collectivism has existed, the result has been the same. Even failed attempts at so-called 'Libertarian Socialism' quickly descended into a reign of terror, whether it was the military dictatorship in Ukraine's so-called 'free territory,' or the 'Paris Commune' where mobs attacked private businesses through terrorism, or even Catalonia that saw committees acting as a government set out to terrorise those who wished to have nothing to do with it.
As I have pointed out, socialism is coercive and there is no such thing as socialism without coercion. It is very clear of what both definitions of collectivism and individualism mean and to try and correlate capitalism to collectivism is more or less saying that capitalism is a branch of socialism as the word has more or less the same meaning as socialism, it is why socialism is listed as a synonym for collectivism in practically every source you could find.
It is a very clear attempt, on his part, to try and correlate capitalism to corporatism, which he is more or less trying to argue that there is somehow the best of both worlds between individualism and collectivism. I didn't go into too much detail on the healthcare issue, but I said enough, you can find my arguments on American healthcare costs, the Direct Primary Care on my channel which provide adequate information.
This particular individual of Current Affairs seems to think these elements of collectivism somehow worked and given the fact I was born and raised in a country with the British NHS, I can safely tell you otherwise. Supporters of the NHS flat out deny reality and facts and even contradict themselves when you do point out the failure, they just use excuses and say: "Well, it's failing because [insert excuse here...]"
Nowhere could he justify collectivism, not from a moral perspective, or economic. It's the very reason why mixed economies are unsustainable, it gave rise to all the monopolies, oligopolies and cartels and could never rival a free market in a month of Sunday's, especially on things like fire service, healthcare, education, etc. Of course, such people erroneously think the main American healthcare market is somehow free market when it isn't.
His failure to comprehend that capitalism is all about free and voluntary exchange. He fails to comprehend the contradiction because collectivism is about collective ownership of the means of production and communal ownership of property, that means it cannot possibly correlate to capitalism because capitalism is about private individual ownership of property and private property rights.
He attempts to correlate fascism to that of individualism or capitalism for that matter. Again, I could have gone into detail, there is a colossal difference between capitalism that is all about the market being left be to regulate itself compared with fascism that involves the state strongly regulating the private sector. Cite the book 'Vampire Economy' that clearly illustrates that. As Mises argued, it was private in name only, when referring to fascism of Nazi Germany.
He doesn't comprehend that what differentiates collectivism from individualism is that under individualism, the individual is the primary element of the economy, whereas collectivism, the state becomes the primary element and the people are subservient to the state. Therefore, there is nothing remotely capitalist about fascism as it is centred strongly around a level of economic central planning, which defines socialism, as well as the political centralisation, again, defining socialism.
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Power Struggle: Why Xi Will Not Continue
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Update on the power struggle in China and why my friend Mike feels that Xi may not continue as leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Anti Capitalist Mentality: Refuting the Mixed Economy
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Having read through an argument I recently received, I was influenced to do this response. I also had a friend with a very similar argument, therefore, I decided to take that particular argument to put across my point on the Anti Capitalist mentality and how deeply flawed their arguments are refuting the mixed economy.
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Refuting RationalWiki on Capitalism
RationalWiki is no different to many other Wiki websites, unfortunately, when it comes to the political Left, they use these websites in cult like fashion, their go-to place for all information in cult-like fashion. The problem is with Wiki websites like RationalWiki is that they can be manipulated to suit the agenda of a particular type.
To be fair, this particular article wasn't written by someone claiming to be against capitalism, however, it is very clear that whoever typed it out doesn't understand capitalism themselves. Much like I pointed out before, this isn't just a problem among Marxists, it's a very common problem amongst the so-called 'conservative' movement.
It is worth noting that I honestly hadn't read this RationalWiki page before hand, instead, I went straight ahead and read it from scratch, but isn't it funny how I could predict where things were going with the usual rhetoric about how things would lead to an apparent 'dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few' or the usual if left unchecked all these monopolies would spring up from everywhere and that the person who posted the RationalWiki article on capitalism probably believes in the myth of the Robber Barons?
Well, it sadly turned out to be true and only serves to prove the point of how predictable these people really are. They haven't a clue about capitalism and are completely irrational for even attempting on any level to associate capitalism with that of collectivism because that is essentially what these people are doing by trying to remove capitalism from individualism to any extent. After all, you don't see people being forced into a collective group forced to subsidise the losses of special-interest groups like you saw in the lead up to the banking crisis for nothing, you saw that because collectivism is present to some extent, it's a mixed economy.
It is sadly people like this who "claim" to support capitalism, but it's their hindered belief that government must keep things in check that inevitably led to the rise of the monopolies, oligopolies and cartels. Perhaps if he mentioned about low levels of government regulation, I would excuse him, but even then, spouting rhetoric that in the absence of government intervention about the myth of the Robber Barons, really!?
Sadly, these are the places all too common for such ignorance to flock to for their information on capitalism, thus the reason I felt like refuting such nonsense.
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Socialism for Beginners—Why Socialism Fails
Socialism for beginners gives you an insight into the true face of socialism, why socialism is so destructive, why it cannot possibly avoid totalitarianism, explaining the economic faults, as well as why human nature is in conflict with the ideology.
Many people fail to understand socialism, the basis of what defines socialism is economic central planning, political centralisation, collective ownership or control of the means of production and state direction of the economy. Of course, socialists will invariably tell you that socialism is anything other than what the real world shows, therefore, they will attempt to define socialism purely around theory.
As I have explained, there are many things which contradict their fallacious claims, especially when they attempt to liken socialism to decentralisation or even personal ownership of possessions. The aim of this video, rather than going into the definition of socialism, which I've touched upon before, it's more so to give you an understanding for why socialism inevitably leads down the road of hell.
Many people claim socialism doesn't work and understand it's a failure, but I don't believe many comprehend the reasoning. In this video on socialism for beginners I explain the issues with their moneyless economy theory, as well as the fault even if they support having a monetary based economy. Regardless of which position they stand, they are doomed from the get-go.
There is another reason socialism is catastrophic, but like I've pointed out in my video, going into explaining the economic calculation problem is something which would expand way beyond this video, you can check out videos I have done in the past on that topic issue that I've playlisted on my channel.
Like I explained, the inflationary problems, to the price ceilings that follow, socialists lead themselves to their own demise and instead of taking responsibility for their own faults, they simply seek to make up excuses for socialism and project the blame off elsewhere. Like I've pointed out elsewhere, many of these socialists place their ideology above anything and everything, therefore, there is no reasoning with them no matter how many facts they are provided with or how reasonable your arguments are.
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Why Socialists Still Exist
Socialism really is the failed idea that never dies, it is why socialists still exist. In this video response on Viki 1999 she illustrates the perfect example of everything that is wrong with the socialist mentality. In the mind of a socialist theory comes above everything and what is put into practice is simply brushed aside like there is of no importance.
I have already covered in numerous videos explaining why socialism fails, such as on the economic calculation problem, so you can easily check those videos out.
This is just a basic argument for those who may not have seen my other videos. Why socialists still exist is because it really is a cultist ideology. I don't direct my videos at those type of people, but for those who are willing to learn.
Socialists live purely off the basis of theory, therefore, they reject all reality and as illustrated by Viki 1999, she thinks it is about what they "want" rather than acknowledging what is put into practice. Her definitions alone are typical, everything twisted to suit a narrative, but she, along with all the other socialists, don't even understand what socialism is. Like I have argued numerous times before, they attempt to redefine socialism and end up contradicting everything that socialism stands for.
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Assassin's Creed: Why the Order Fight for Socialism
The Assassin's Creed series is something I have long loved since the beginning, I remember being enthralled not just by the gameplay of the original Assassin's Creed, but by the storyline. The story that would build up to the role of the Assassin's against the Templar Knights and the agenda of the order for control over humanity.
Influenced from a previous YouTuber who made a comment regarding a game that influenced clearly had some influence on him to speak about a so-called evil greedy capitalist who would hoard all the money for himself, it is unfortunate that no matter where you look in this world, whether it's news in the mainstream media, the entertainment industry from films to music and even the gaming industry, the anti capitalist mentality is everywhere.
Although such games and even films may point out that such events may be fiction, like the Assassin's Creed series, they do mention that the views aren't held by everyone within the organisation and there are a mix. Although, it must be said that even for many things based on fiction, certain things do have an influence on people. To my belief, due to how popular the anti-capitalist rhetoric is spread about the industrial revolution, I don't think the image they painted in Assassin's Creed Syndicate of children being slaves to so-called evil capitalist factory owners was intentionally fictitious, instead, influenced from what they believe happened in history.
I personally loved all of the games in the Assassin's Creed series and many may fall into the trap of thinking the order are symbolic of capitalism in the real world, in truth, the story depicts the Assassin's fighting for liberty against socialism.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey illustrated this best and was arguably my favourite of the series, purely because of the story of Kassandra was amazing and such an emotional journey, something which would be amazing to see is her story being turned into a film as it would be out of this world. Although the ending leaves a lot to be questioned as there's clearly more to her story, one thing that really stood out at the end of Atlantis is symbolic of the real world, that no matter the control by the ISU in Elysium or even Atlantis, people are always uncontrollable and that the events of Atlantis would play out with the same ending every time.
This paints the perfect picture of the world we live in today which you can see people rebelling against such attempts of control since the pandemic lockdowns, but in general, it paints the picture of socialism that has failed over and over and no matter how often it has been tried, it ends with the same result.
The series of games has had me gripped for the storyline, including Valhalla even if the main character is not based on one of the assassin's, but I feel these games epitomise a reflection in some ways to the life we live in and love the connection they've had implementing historical places and some historical accurate events that has put much together.
I look forward to many more hopefully in the future. Overall, you're unfortunately going to find the anti-capitalist narrative everywhere, which is quite convenient given that, although we don't live under a capitalist system, it was capitalism that has made all their consoles, computers and games possible.
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Defending Liberty: Refuting Anti Libertarianism
There are a lot of anti libertarians I come across and there is always the same old recurring arguments, the usual anti capitalist rhetoric about there being some dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, or that it would lead to monopolies, oligopolies and cartels. One common argument you will hear is the claim that capitalism is either the same thing as cronyism (corporatism) or is the early stages of corporatism.
In this response I decided to respond on a particular comment I received, the typical anti libertarianism with the usual anti capitalist nonsense. The funny thing is, everything he proclaims to stand against, he is essentially supporting by upholding a mixed economy. The argument he makes regarding "evening the playing field" doesn't make rational sense as the mixed economy has done anything but such a thing. This common argument based on equality isn't just something you find with Marxists but many of those who value the mixed economy.
As I have pointed out numerous times before, there is a colossal difference between the protectionism of corporatism and that of capitalism and perhaps I could get around to doing a video in particular on that subject illustrating the differences. It is important to note, however, free markets are not the cause for why corporatism exists, you can't blame the freedom of a market for the fault of government intervention even if someone tries to claim it's the natural state. To justify the fault, which is government intervention, is to basically support the causal effects. Having freedom of the market FROM the state's interference isn't the problem.
Again, much like Marxists, his claims are baseless, whether it's on monopolies, the dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, or what equals things out. As history has proven, nothing even comes close to free market economies for opportunity and lifting the masses out of poverty, the world's most successful economies as I've pointed out numerous times before were the likes of Hong Kong, Singapore and even Sweden for a period when they were free markets.
The absolutist mentality these people have where they assume that if something isn't exactly 100% then that must mean it either does not work or that free markets don't exist. It's such a myopic overly simplistic worldview of economics and political history, the world doesn't work that way.
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Usual Anti capitalism
Again, the usual anti capitalism rhetoric, this time from a boy who initially seems to have supported the mixed economy and is now of the idea that socialism is somehow the solution to his problems.
This sadly seems all too common today, all because they have been fooled into believing that the United States is somehow a capitalist economy. Way too many with the usual anti capitalism mentality do not understand what capitalism is to begin with, you can even tell this by his mere mention of corporatism without him realising it, then harping off about war and the problem big government has caused.
Much like all other socialists, his view even of socialism is based on nothing other than idealism. He mentioned about socialism being about workers ownership in his original video despite the fact it has never existed and never will exist. Even then, the belief that somehow turning toward universal healthcare thinking that will somehow solve the issue to do with neglect, an all too common foolish belief, it just shows you how ill informed these people are and are completely unaware of the United States secondary healthcare market.
The usual anti capitalism rhetoric is all too popular and you'll see it permeate all forms in the creative industry, whether that is in games, films or even art, one such examples was Assassin's Creed Syndicate, although there is part of a mention of fiction, there is the mention of a mixture of views within the game designers and is obvious the mainstream lies relative to the history of the industrial revolution clearly influenced them as you can see within the game it's all about two characters being the so-called saviour of children from so-called evil capitalist factory owners. No wonder people end up so brainwashed.
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Defending Liberty: Refuting Anti Libertarianism
There are a lot of anti libertarians I come across and there is always the same old recurring arguments, the usual anti capitalist rhetoric about there being some dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, or that it would lead to monopolies, oligopolies and cartels. One common argument you will hear is the claim that capitalism is either the same thing as cronyism (corporatism) or is the early stages of corporatism.
In this response I decided to respond on a particular comment I received, the typical anti libertarianism with the usual anti capitalist nonsense. The funny thing is, everything he proclaims to stand against, he is essentially supporting by upholding a mixed economy. The argument he makes regarding "evening the playing field" doesn't make rational sense as the mixed economy has done anything but such a thing. This common argument based on equality isn't just something you find with Marxists but many of those who value the mixed economy.
As I have pointed out numerous times before, there is a colossal difference between the protectionism of corporatism and that of capitalism and perhaps I could get around to doing a video in particular on that subject illustrating the differences. It is important to note, however, free markets are not the cause for why corporatism exists, you can't blame the freedom of a market for the fault of government intervention even if someone tries to claim it's the natural state. To justify the fault, which is government intervention, is to basically support the causal effects. Having freedom of the market FROM the state's interference isn't the problem.
Again, much like Marxists, his claims are baseless, whether it's on monopolies, the dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, or what equals things out. As history has proven, nothing even comes close to free market economies for opportunity and lifting the masses out of poverty, the world's most successful economies as I've pointed out numerous times before were the likes of Hong Kong, Singapore and even Sweden for a period when they were free markets.
The absolutist mentality these people have where they assume that if something isn't exactly 100% then that must mean it either does not work or that free markets don't exist. It's such a myopic overly simplistic worldview of economics and political history, the world doesn't work that way.
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Hong Kong Protests: Mike Debunking Hakim
A response Mike decided to make on the topic issue of the Hong Kong protests in response on Hakim. As usual, Hakim likes to speak a lot about what he knows very little about and given that he doesn't understand Hong Kong and the people, Mike decided to respond.
It should not surprise you that a socialist would tell you not to support such protests, he would quite happily see them subjugated to state violence by a communist regime.
Nonetheless, enjoy the response!
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Hong Kong Protests: Mike Debunking Hakim
A response Mike decided to make on the topic issue of the Hong Kong protests in response on Hakim. As usual, Hakim likes to speak a lot about what he knows very little about and given that he doesn't understand Hong Kong and the people, Mike decided to respond.
It should not surprise you that a socialist would tell you not to support such protests, he would quite happily see them subjugated to state violence by a communist regime.
Nonetheless, enjoy the response!
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Usual Anti capitalism
Again, the usual anti capitalism rhetoric, this time from a boy who initially seems to have supported the mixed economy and is now of the idea that socialism is somehow the solution to his problems.
This sadly seems all too common today, all because they have been fooled into believing that the United States is somehow a capitalist economy. Way too many with the usual anti capitalism mentality do not understand what capitalism is to begin with, you can even tell this by his mere mention of corporatism without him realising it, then harping off about war and the problem big government has caused.
Much like all other socialists, his view even of socialism is based on nothing other than idealism. He mentioned about socialism being about workers ownership in his original video despite the fact it has never existed and never will exist. Even then, the belief that somehow turning toward universal healthcare thinking that will somehow solve the issue to do with neglect, an all too common foolish belief, it just shows you how ill informed these people are and are completely unaware of the United States secondary healthcare market.
The usual anti capitalism rhetoric is all too popular and you'll see it permeate all forms in the creative industry, whether that is in games, films or even art, one such examples was Assassin's Creed Syndicate, although there is part of a mention of fiction, there is the mention of a mixture of views within the game designers and is obvious the mainstream lies relative to the history of the industrial revolution clearly influenced them as you can see within the game it's all about two characters being the so-called saviour of children from so-called evil capitalist factory owners. No wonder people end up so brainwashed.
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China: Cultural Conflicts in the Far East
Speaking about the latest updates on China and the cultural conflicts in the far east.
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