Why Are So Many People Losing Faith In Capitalism?
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- According to new polling, just half of young Americans hold a favorable view of capitalism. This tracks with other, similar polls, but why is it happening? What is it about capitalism that is so unappealing to young people? In this episode, we'll discuss the trend away from capitalism, the appeal of socialism as an alternative, and consider what normal people can do to help hasten the demise of the predatory, outdated system that is capitalism.
Why Are So Many People Losing Faith In Capitalism? - Second Thought
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“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish has been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
Yeah it’s just a worthless piece of paper. It has no value but we gave it value and meaning. It’s all manmade and make believe and we’ve enslaved ourselves to our own restrictions, because you can barely do anything without it.
Slavery was never abolished. It was extended to include people of all color.
Indeed. Instead of couching environmentalism as saving the planet, we need to remember it is ourselves we are saving.
I'm gonna use that one.
@@emmy4537 haha remember when i arguing with a friend that money's value is given by us and he just told me try to get a drink/food for free then lolololol.
@@memoryalphamale haha feel stupid that going green isnt about saving the earth, its saving humanity.
What scares me and annoys me about capitalism is that many times you cannot criticize it without being called a communist.
They see it as a perfect system and if you try to talk about a failure immediately it is as if you were a socialist, how are we supposed to improve a system which we cannot even criticize?
It's an USA-only issue. You guys seem to have worse PTSD after the cold war than whole eastern block counted together.
Although it's important to pay attention to the extremism, cause if unchecked, it can make things really bad. Bernie is not a communist, he's a typical socialist. Author of this video is not typical socialist, he's a communist. (Assuming he truly believes what he says and not just reads the script in order to get this yt money.)
@@Rude_i_Wredne I'm not from America ^^" but yeah a bunch of them seem to have PTSD over communist
My criticism was that I once found a "discussion" of capitalism and why it is better than communism in the UK. I put discussion in quotation marks because the speaker avoided any question or criticism and gave examples out of meaning, so that capitalism would look good. I commented on it and immediately someone called me a communist XD
I do not believe that the perfect economic system exists, but I find it absurd how many people, especially those of old age, become defensive because they find fault with this system.
From what I saw it is not only a problem in the US, some in the UK are also very overprotective of capitalism.
I also think that the extremes are bad, I don't think it's as easy as saying "this bad system and this good one", we will never have something like a perfect system, but at least we can try to improve it ^^
As a European, it wouldn't surprise me people takes it as a personal offense. It's so intrenched into the American culture, I guess it almost defines what it is to be an American. And through propaganda _socialism_ = communism. No it most certainly is not, but the majority still believes that.
But none of this is about improving capitalism, it's about promoting communism. Why shouldn't people accuse you of communism when your using communist tactics ( deception ) to promote a system that always leads to more control of the ruling class?
@@dane3038 damn, I didn't know communists were the only ones using deception. Good thing that capitalists are always honest and never use propaganda.
“No food, no power, brutal police, corrupt officials, electioneering, controlled media, crackdown on protests, no meaningful opposition & no private property for the working class. Literally everything they warned us would happen under communism is happening under capitalism.” - RD Hale
And in Amerika? Look at the working clans....how man American don't can anfford living in an appartement or house while working full time and need to sleep in their Cars? How many americans do lose their life bc of no afdordable health care for them. If that is the other Option, the Capitalism way, then i totaly stay at my sozialsm here in germany. I would more move to a Land like Finnland, or Dänemark but yeah move abroad is hard. But u know, both of this Lands are under the most Happy Lands on earth and u know something Else? Both are sozialism States. And in Amerika...the people get fat, the food has rly poor quality and food with good quality is rly hard to come by and far more expensive. The Media is full of add's and so many people get addicted. I mean look to LA, whole streets filled with homeless people and this isn't even an exaggeration.
nice... gotta remember
The fact that hospitals and schools are treated more like commercial centers than necessary health and education systems.
In the USA they closed several children's hospitals just because they didn't generate as much money as they wanted, and the universities sub-contract teachers to avoid having to give them benefits, and less than the minimum salary, while the universities make contracts to have bigger football fields.
It's happening under government enforced cronyism.
Not capitalism.
@@arminiusofgermania u know that cronyism is more of an ilnnes then an market economy system or political system. It can surely infest both sort but isn't one of them. It is just a sort of corruption. If there is a Politcal system thats based on cronyism then it's Monarchies and the sorts of. For all the others Systems like i said it more of an infect. And i know our system is already hard infected. But that dosn't mean it's the system itself. Its more controlloning the system then being our system itself. I hope u understand what i mean.
I lost faith in capitalism when I started realizing we have a major Homeless issue and seeing people who needed food steal and be prosecuted. Lost faith in it when I see ppl think about themselves and not others. We got more than enough resources to share with the entire world. We have massive amounts of food but throw it away if people can't afford it.
When you notice that the majority of people on welfare are just lazy people who don't want to work but just collect government tax money, them living in the projects surrounded by danger, also refugees who pretend to be in asylum come here to seek benefits also, you will loose faith in socialism lol
Hey can you send me some money?
This might be why my local supermarket donates food that's about to expire.
Fair enough, but giving away handouts isn't the answer either.
@@jflsdknf It's not a handout if you paid taxes for it.
It’s hard to say that capitalism works when I’ve experienced more than one “once in a lifetime” economic collapse before being able to order a beer at a restaurant
Maybe they’re both “once in a lifetime” because life spans have been stunted by capitalism invading healthcare...
Right there with you dude
All of them are "Once in a lifetime." Or "Unexpected." But a human lifetime isn't like ten years and you can easily tell when it happens.
@@kevc5510
And? They still have a socialist governmental system.
Vietnam has some for-profit enterprises as well.
... Anticipating your response here: "well that means socialism doesn't work."
So...
One: define "working."
Two: Cuba and Vietnam are doing quite well by their general population, despite being poor countries...Cuba has a higher life expectancy than we do in the USA.
The boom bust cycle is accelerating and the booms are not going to the working class anymore
If conservatives want to go back to the "good old days", then why don't they want to go back to when a gas station worker could buy a house with their yearly pay?
Nonononono. Giving more money to the working class? Oh no. We just want the overt racism back, that's all.
That’s exactly the good old days I want to go back to. Socialists pushing and defending the policies that make this impossible is what made me a conservative (well, more like a mix of conservative and libertarian.)
It’s always a conservative when it comes to you people, never a liberals fault.
@@Rand0mPeon Ok, what policies do you think make this impossible that Socialists push?
Keeping in mind, Socialists haven't been in power in America, well, ever, and we criticize Liberal policies just as much as you do.
That time is long and gone. Plus inflation has increased 3x in the last 70 years so it’s made it nearly impossible. The system in America was corrupted by some outside force and only those who truly want to save the country need to speak up against it
"Why Are So Many People Losing Faith In Capitalism?". Because Capitalism is a system designed by people who own things. In America, nobody owns anything and everyone just works to pay off debt to those who do. It really is just that simple.
@@IIII...... Clothes, food and housing are fundamental human needs not "materialistic items". Home ownership rates in the US are way below almost every country in Europe and even some large poor countries like India and Indonesia. The fact that people think they are doing well by capitalism because they own a few shiny things like a PS4 actually reinforces my point.
It's the nasty version of the "Golden Rule" - those who have the gold (i.e. most money), make the rules. That is what has happened to our society. It's bought and owned. There is no saving a monetary-society from corporate control. That's what we have to realize.
So, the logical question is, what is the alternative? There are many alternatives, but a core feature would be making money obsolete so that it doesn't have power over us.
One way would be to transition to a resource-based economy. A scientific approach to resource management that builds local, self-sustaining communities that can meet all human needs in their area, for free, based on best practices of automation, sharing, open-source and digital networked feedback. And without the labor-for-income need, people could work at their 'job' less, share it more, but still maintain a healthy, quality lifestyle. People would have more time for recreation, leisure, creativity, family and friend time. Who doesn't want that? A much healthier society could be provided by a system like that.
Its modern day feudalism
@@coolioso808 capitalism is the exact opposite of the golden rule. It makes sure the golden rule can never happen. ? (you know, values?) The only reason to do anything is a paycheck or to screw over others to aggrandize yourself. This brainwashes us. If you involve other you take as much as you can get from them while giving the least in return as mandated by the government. Zero accountability or responsibility to any life but your own. Society of sociopathic corporations is what is going on. Society turning people into sociopaths seems more accurate. Some people are brainwashed enough and lacking imagination enough to think this is the best we can do. What a failure of imagination this truly is.
@@adifferentlight5530 Yes, I know. I wasn't saying it was 'that' Golden Rule to treat others how you wish to be treated. I said it was the golden rule where "those with the most gold (i.e. money) make the rules." And it's completely unhealthy, unjust and unsustainable. You are right.
I'm a Gen-Xer and I've always struggled to understand why people always take and consume more than they need. If you have enough to look after yourself and your family, then why do you always need to take more? You can't take it with you when you die, and there is no sense in keeping it from others who may need it more. There is so much that is wrong with the capitalist system that it is both staggering and sickening. Just the senseless amounts of food and resources wasted, all in the pursuit of chasing more wealth, is just pure insanity! We have more than enough to go around for everyone, yet greedy capitalists insist on destroying it all, just because people can't pay for it? The system needs to change and change fast, if humanity is to survive and flourish. Else we become a fully dystopian society like many books that are written in that genre.
jaybird economics. no matter how much there is, nobody else gets any.
Generation doesn't matter. This is how people across many generations feel.
You should check out John B Calhoun’s rat utopia study. It was done at JHU, the first place to do open heart surgery in the world. Also, I was born there.
The study examines, via vermin, how overcrowding affects social productivity within a society. The scary thing is that stigmatized rats could not assimilate with new healthy rats. They were just doomed.
I read a paper about how offspring of Holocaust survivors have more anxiety disorders as adults than Jewish people of the same age and demographic whose parents weren’t subjected to that. It suggests that trauma is a hereditary trait of survival and that anxiety disorders may be a social advancement. It’s quite interesting.
@@NerakGreen makes sense
People take too much and hoard because of the foundational belief of capitalism - namely scarcity. Scarcity drives profits up, so capitalism has built in the process of boom/bust, or plenty-of-supply/not-enough-supply. People buy more than they need 'in case' it isn't available when they do need it. This is where FOMO (fear of missing out) comes from.
I’m 61 years old (guess that makes me a boomer) and I’ve been fed up with the insanity of the aggressive capitalism in this country for decades. Please, young people, stop the madness! I hate that my generation has dumped all this shit on you and continues to kick the can down the road. You have a heavy task ahead of you, but your passion for change gives me hope.
64 and agree. I'm so fed up with capitalism, I'm borderline communist.
@Beef Feet *red side
I am in awe and incredibly grateful for anyone in their 60s who has escaped the Cold War mindset. Thank for being an outlier!
I'm Gen X and unfortunately I don't share Second Thought's optimism about Gen Z. I mean, much of my generation were also socialists when they were then age Gen Z is now... and then the dot-com boom happened and as soon as our stock options vested, everyone went from socialist to capitalist in about four seconds.
61 here and socialism can’t come fast enough.
"Always tip well"
I absolutely *hate* tipping culture. It's abhorrent that people are underpaid and basically have to live off what people throw at them in tips. However, tipping well when it is part of a culture is something I feel I should do. Even if it feels hypocritical, you're not hurting the oppressors if you don't tip - you're hurting the oppressed.
Well you help the Pizza dude out in the short term. In long term you could be not helping them but only if the System were to change in the future. Plus it makes you seem cheap.
as someone who lives in a country that does not have such a tipping culture: it's wild to me. tips are for exceptional and reliable service when someone is very friendly or makes great food, not to push that person's pay to a living wage. BUT in such a system, i think it's a good thing to tip well if one can afford it
As a tipped employee i dont mind ( depending where im working)
Yes hourly we are underpaid but if you work at a nice resturant where the service you give is more intense tthen ill be able to make more money than if i made 15 an hour ( ive made as much as 35 an hour with tips)
Fair nuance.
Yeah so shouldnt they be paid better in the 1st place to not need tipping? Culturally tips are considered rude in other countries. Confusing given the video topic and wish it was adressed more in the video
I lost faith in capitalism when I realized that I'm working full time and would have to spend 90% of my monthly income to afford a studio apartment with no utilities. I wouldn't be able to afford health insurance, car insurance, gas for the car, maintenance for the car, and the like. I wouldn't be able to save money for emergencies or future expenses, and would immediately go bankrupt from a minor medical emergency and become homeless. So, yeah, I have no faith in capitalism and would be happy to watch it burn and for the guillotines to come out for those who benefit from it the most.
I’m learning as much as I can about the arts. I painted the socialist flower on my wall, with some small personal touches, been trying to educate my Dad on reality, and been studying architecture to help shape a world that is affordable, beautiful, accessible, and eco friendly. I would much rather tear down a corporate building to make homes or community centers than build new houses on untouched land that nobody will be able to afford. So, I’m pretty sure I can make some guillotines, lol. That being said, I’m a chaotic neutral/good. I’m willing to talk. 😇👩🏻🎨
@@ErutaniaRose sounds like a wonderful goal! I hope you're able to collaborate with developers or local governments who want to see those kinds of positive change.
The only solution is a Monarchy, headed by the Lord Jesus Christ. "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this" (Isaiah 9:7). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem, and keep the world safe from Democracy!
@@davidlafleche1142 cringe
We can 'burn' capitalism to the ground and then replace it with a viable system if we want. We 'burn' capitalism to the ground by mass civil disobedience that cuts capitalists off at their source of power - the almighty "Money God." This has been attempted before, but not successful, I believe because the focus wasn't enough on a viable solution, but more on just complaining about the current system.
A viable system would be a resource based economy. A reasonable demand would be a global UBI paid for by the billionaire class because they have been the most structurally violent to people and nature through their engagement in the unstable capitalist economy. We can transition towards a sustainable system within 10-15 years if we want.
One thing is for sure: we cannot fix capitalism on the global scale - it is already controlled by wealthy elites. Any attempt at a new system that still uses money is unlikely to succeed because it, once again, puts the power in those with the most money, which is what leads to the most corruption! That is the root of the problem.
As an person born and raised in America and who has lived in many states and seen both coasts. I can say I've held on onto my humanitarian and socialists ideals. I always believed universal income, healthcare, education and housing should be something everyone should have access too
Everyone should have access to equal basic opportunities, but we cannot expect equal outcomes. Inequality will always be there, inequality will have to be there. I study 8 hours a day, and the boy next door studies maybe an hour before the exams. It's not my fault that I'll get paid 5 times as him 10 years later
@@kakalimukherjee3297 The point is to try diminishing all reasons why that kid only studied for an hour so that the ONLY reason is that he chose to. Not because he was born into an unwealthy family & needs to work two full time jobs while you across the street just happened to get lucky & only need to work a part time job. Not because your family could afford private tutoring as a child while he only ate one meal a day as a child. Inequality will always be there, sure, but we cannot keep treating inequalities as just "the other person was lazy" when there's clear bigger causes & effects.
It should be as basic human rights.
Capitalism has failed at the basis of what an economy is: the careful management of available resources. To me, and I believe to most people, that would mean everybody has their basic needs met at a minimum requirement of any so-called economy.
What I think needs to also be said is that, while we do need an income or money in this economy to survive - that very thing "money" is what also shackles us to reinventing a true sustainable system.
Put it this way: We have the technical capacity now and with near-future technologies to meet all human needs in an efficient and sustainable way, for free. If we do that, every community becomes self-sufficient. If everybody doesn't need a particular employed job to get their basic needs met - then suddenly we can make all the sustainability and efficiency changes we need because we aren't having a large portion of our people doing BS jobs to prop up an system that is unsustainable anyway.
A healthy economy to me is where we all have decent housing, where we have clean running water and we can get local, fresh food down at the corner store, and our energy is provided by renewable energy sources such as geothermal, solar, wind and hydro. Everybody can get healthcare if the need it, for free, but we also would also start to need less critical healthcare because we would be informed and encouraged to live healthy, well-balanced lifestyles with plenty of good food, exercise and time to spend with family and friends - and lots of that in nature! We would have a strong sharing and repairing culture in our communities. There would be no incentive to produce something that is used once then thrown out. Self-interest becomes social interest and we still work but we do it with passion and purpose because we know our efforts are going to support a stronger, healthier community.
no benefits for workdrones alright??? just be a billionaire - right auth
... Honestly, it's incredible to me of how different the views over there in America are. Never understood how a two parties, no general Healthcare, weak unions etc are even remotely acceptable to seemingly many Americans. Best regards, from Germany.
The problem is that Capitalism truly only favors the wealthy. When the founding fathers started America, most people were honest, God fearing people who knew in themselves what right and wrong is. Capitalism does work, but only if the landowner is honest and forthright to begin with.
It's more accurate to say we are Capitalist, but with a more Technocratic bend to it. But in all honesty, because of the lack of any oversight or monitoring of big company and big tech, we have CEO's and Executives who feel no shame or guilt to what they do to the workers. With that said, it is the utter lack of any regulation of their behavior and integrity that has led to this huge Technocratic mess we call the American Government.
Because nobody says a politician or company can get away with violating laws or even common decency, they will continue to exploit the public "as long as the market will bear it."
I must respectfully disagree with Socialism being the "only answer". Even the former British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher said it best: "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money".
Wise words indeed. So that is why in a sense Socialism is NOT the answer because at the end of the day, the populace would be given free this and free that and not have an incentive to work. This is unacceptable as it does not impart the importance of a work ethic and encourages those that receive so many benefits to be content to live off the dole of those who do work hard to earn a decent living.
There is so much more I could write, but a society that does not pay it's fair share get nowhere. It lives off the backs of the hard working.
They labor not, nor do they toil. The lillies in the field. But this is Socialism, those who work for the burden of those who choose to game the system and not work. Is that any better? Also Socialism has a fairly wide and oppressive reach to its citizens. It encourages a "Police State" by all the monitoring, facial recognition, and government being in all aspects of life.
So in conclusion, Socialism COULD work, but only if it does not take advantage of the people who voted for it in the first place. It would need to be fair, bit not intervening in the rights of others, it cannot encroach on freedoms and liberties set by the Constitution. And above all, it cannot be run by corporations, elites, and Big Tech. Only by the hand of the humble, can Socialism be effective.
Well if you look at it rationaly and only the facts it goes like this: First you keep the people uneducated (masive cost of education guarantees it), uneducated people eat up any kind of propaganda much more easily, make sure the most uneducated workers have their basic need unsatisfied so they continue the rat race and have no time to think about the situation they are in. Rinse and repeat over a couple of generations and you have the modern USA. To be perfectly honest every western cpuntry sufferers of the same problem, but USA is an extreme case.
@@deathstrike well I would agree with you except the spying part. That is not socialism and that part can bea easily removed/protected from with a few lines in the constitution
It's because the US specifically is built for profit, and little else.
Agreed. Arguing capitalism in germany vs. in the usa is so different.
While germany is basically social-democrat and tries to fix some of the downsides of capitalism, usa is just fucking with those in need.
It’s hard to feel motivated in a world with such a bleak and hopeless future.
Don’t try to take on all the world’s burdens. Just do what you can, take care of yourself and those you love.
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@@SecondThought "Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
-Gandalf the grey
As a Gen Z myself I hope to do something to help (assuming I have the means and time to do so haha)
The world is bleak and hopeless. However, let us salvage what we can for the sake of the world. Do your part to reverse the change that has been giving us humans and the world an existential crisis.
And when we have the means and time (or simply when we grow up), throw everyone off the yoke and institute social change. Harness it for the sake of a better society. Unite everyone under our auspices and march towards a better future.
I know I might be idealistic but I know that this is possible.
We can do it brother >_
I know that sentiment, allow @secondthought to keep inspiring and use your voice, if nothing else, continue to speak up.
You know how when you're at the end of a game of Monopoly, and only 2 people are left in the game and everyone else just has to sit there and watch them? That's what this feels like
Unfortunately things have been mostly reduced to monopolistic competition where most products are being offered by a handful of sellers effecting a small competition between them hence very little control from the buyer front. No lack of this in the US. A few examples to name a few would be only three companies control about 80 percent of mobile telecoms, four companies control over 80 percent of corn and seed sales.
Then there is global monopolistic competition. An example is, only ten companies in the entire world, sell 90% of all packaged food sold. Competition no longer works the way people think it works.
Good one
Unregulated, free market Capitalism really feels like Monopoly, but to me its more like a battle royale match. 100 people join a game, and only one will win with the highest tier equipment. Everyone start with nothing, one will win with everything.
@@eges72 More like Jenga, the supposed winner collapses the structure on himself.
I want healthcare and the freedom to do what i love. Capitalism promises me the HOPE of achieving this with hard work and hustle, while never actually giving me the opportunity for it.
When McCarthyists describe Capitalism, they describe Capitalism in fantasy.
When McCarthyists describe Socialism, they describe Capitalism in reality.
Workers control their produce . That is socialism . Ok . So when we easily create super abundance we can have a non coerced free exchange of goods ,services and money or barter . I prefer some ytype of anarcho syndicalism but what will work id each community and neighbor hood choose what they want and how . If it is not fair find a place that fits you . See Larkin Rose for how a non state may work . Communes ,freedom cells , small towns , farmers alliances , alternative currencies group education and childcare , energy and food .
Many people can't even afford basic bills. And our infrastructure is crumbling inspite of being "The greatest country in the world". Thankfully some people are realizing how illogical it is to work so hard at their job just to spend all of their money and time on the "American Dream". Which amounts to looking more wealthy and happy than we actually are.
All we have to do is lower the cost of living.
Yup, not just one infrastructure, it is across many different sectors like education, housing availability, jobs, immigration, transportation, social harmony. The only thing I can say that US is good is the post-secondary education but that only benefits a small percentage of people. The system fails to address these issues fast enough and it is glaringly obvious that it didn't have a good mechanism to reform itself to keep up with the speed of 21st century.
Most of the bills just get stuck forever at the congress, how can this ever be a good thing?
Even a good third above minimum wage working consistent OT isn’t enough to not be homeless in Bay Area, I’ve had to choose which expenses were important to me because rent would’ve forgone all other possible things I could need, including the car that allows me to keep my job. I’d like the handcuffs more if they WERE golden, they’re just pewter from where I’m sitting
@@OCtheG The highest cost of living is always in places run by Socialists.
@@davidlafleche1142 Can’t argue with that, they always do seem to run out of other people’s money…
Welcome to the 21st Century: Like the 19th, but shinier.
Nah the 21st century is worse. In the 19th you could open a business without being pounded to death with needless government regulation. Now it’s difficult to get ahead because politicians want themselves and their special interest groups to stay at the top.
@@wheelspinproductions9214 except these politician’s special interest groups are capitalist corporations. Politicians of today represent the hyper capitalist ultra wealthy, not the average American worker. The idea of socialism is to give power back to the workers.
and less napoleon
@@tow3842 LOL! Good one!
@@tow3842 and less interesting thinkers
To anyone interested: I would suggest reading "Saving Capitalism" by Robert B. Reich. It essentially explains corporate greed and why our capitalism system is failing. Very good read. It also can make you a little depressed after learning about the shear volume of corruption in the U.S. but it was eye opening for sure.
Yep, love Dr. Reich, however as the book title suggests, he is NOT a socialist, he wants to 'fix' capitalism like bernie sanders, when the real solution is to just abolish it.
Robert Reich has some good takes on the current problems of capitalism, but I don't believe he understands that it isn't "corporate greed" why the system is failing. It is the incentives OF a system based on competitive business, power consolidation, cyclical consumption and endless growth on a planet with finite resources. Maybe he does get that, I don't know. But the solution isn't just "we gotta demand more regulations on corporations!" no that's never going to happen because it already didn't happen after years of lobbying. The golden rule in a monetary-market economy is "those with the most gold (money) make the rules" and that is what we see.
So the solution isn't to just use a different kind of monetary economy that could, once again, be controlled by those who gain the most money. The solution is build a new system that makes the current one obsolete. Makes needing money for basic needs obsolete, unnecessary. That is a resource based economy. We have the technical capacity to meet all human needs in an efficient, sustainable way without people required to labor for an income. That's the system we could be demanding a shift towards, because that is a system that would create self-sufficient cities and towns all over the world that allow their people to get free food, free water, free housing, free healthcare, free education and transportation due to the system designed to meet those needs in the most efficient way. Once we do that, once we don't need to slave away at a job we hate to get our basic needs met, but our personal values are shifted to keeping our community sustainable and healthy - we make self-interest into social interest and we'd be a lot healthier overall.
For another eye-opener, I suggest The Zeitgeist Films by Peter Joseph or his book "Moving Forward" or "The New Human Rights Movement" - also a newer film called "Interreflections." Very smart, inspiring stuff.
I'd say anybody who wants to have SOME hope for the future, see a path towards a society that doesn't look like an open wound or Hellfire on Earth, I'd check out the principles of a Natural Law Resource Based Economy and Revolution Now podcast. We don't have to live like slaves and servants to an ownership class that doesn't give a damn about us. The last advantage we have left is there are more of us than there are of them, but we better learn that fast, work together and change the system.
The only ways to save capitalism are killing it or going back to the preindustrial era and make sure to never industrialize.
Corporate greed isn't the same as capitalism.
I think it’s pretty telling as an American that I instinctively recoil every time the narrator makes it clear he is 100% in support of socialism. The pro-capitalist anti-left propaganda has been drilled into my head from birth. It’s scary that I almost don’t want to continue watching because hearing pro-socialist views is literally almost painful.
That is very introspective of you. I respect that.
At least you are aware of it and accept it.
I am right there with you. I am learning to break free from my programming, but it is still there.
@Communist Detective Naruto Uzumaki there's actually free-market socialist positions like free market anarchism and market socialism (where you replace corporations with worker co-operatives, basically companies without a separate "owner" class). Many socialists (the entire libertarian left) are as opposed to Stalinism as they are to fascism, because the outcome we want is not a red dictatorship but a society where all people's needs are met first and foremost.
your name….
I once heard something along the lines of "It's easier to fathom the end of the world than the end of capitalism." God I hope that changes soon.
Slavoj Zizek (might) have said it
I mean that is pretty based
@@joesmith4965 what is? The fact that it might change soon? That is pretty based :)
@@whysocurious7366 if capitalism goes away the only thing that will take it place would be fascism. Only underdeveloped nations gravitate to socialism (it isn't even really socialism because just like communism it is impossible to implement, more like state capitalism), and the USA is not underdeveloped by any metric out there. Developed nations gravitate towards fascism after a crisis.
That´s because we´re far more creative in a pessimistic way than in an optimistic way. My favourite example is a historic Italian author "Dante". H wrote a book about hell and a book about heaven and the "Inferno" is full of ideas how everything is bad and can be a torture whilst "paradiso lost" is just like "Everything is good and there´s light and everything is even more good and more light" XD
I have a vision: you'll hit a hallmark when Fox news does a segment on your channel calling you "a dirty rotten commie"... and then your channel grows 10X.
This is glorious
Well he already hit a smaller hallmark, in the last couple months there's been right wingers making videos about this channel calling him "anti-American", and they have analysis of his videos. The analyses are sad, because they make a lot of technically true, but irrelevant points - and their audiences eat it right up.
I think having Homeland come to his house more than once is a hell of a milestone
The socialist fans of Second Thought when this happens:
We used the Fox News to destroy the Fox News.
That statement is actually true, as Second's fans got him popular enough to (maybe) get "debunked" and recieve a popularity boost.
@@bluemonkey1886 see, I knew he got a surprise visit before but didn't know they came more than once. Sheesh.
Capitalism follows the golden rule.....whoever has the gold makes the rules.
When McCarthyists describe Capitalism, they describe Capitalism in fantasy.
When McCarthyists describe Socialism, they describe Capitalism in reality.
What really pains me is when I see people like my brother who struggles to make ends meet every week and just had his first kid, still praise the current capitalist system that keeps him in the broken ass trailer they live in just because he still buys into the brainwashing people like my father drilled into us when we were kids you know my dad used to tell me that socialist intentions are nothing but good but that they don't realize that they're going to hurt more people in the process nowadays I'm like no their intentions are purely good and capitalist are just afraid of the backlash they'll get from average people when they realize how badly you f*** them over all these years
You get your english from your father?
That and also most socialism attempts so far have resulted in a dictator taking power which prevented the development of a true socialist system in the first place. Similar to how the USSR may have had some socialist parties but it was largely a capitalist command economy.
@@fake10hourentertainment17 When McCarthyists describe Capitalism, they describe Capitalism in fantasy.
When McCarthyists describe Socialism, they describe Capitalism in reality.
When McCarthyists describe Capitalism, they describe Capitalism in fantasy.
When McCarthyists describe Socialism, they describe Capitalism in reality.
@@eymed2023if the Americans ever saw true capitalism they would get over it pretty quick. 😂
I’ll always remember the moment that Austin Powers was thawed out and made that comment about “Capitalist Pigs.” (thinking they lost the war??) 😆
@@kevc5510 🤣🤣🤣🤣 what???
@@kevc5510 Cuba had private businesses for years now you are just finding this out😂.
Kev C Its more just legally recognizing the small single person operations that already existed. Not anywhere near a capitalist restoration.
@@kevc5510 Dude yes they have private businesses have been introduced in Cuba since the Obama administration. You are late as hell if you are just finding this out.
@@kevc5510 do you actually think there are people out there who both believe modern socialist hybrid countries are hardcore totalitarian communist states AND that the US is a purely capitalist system? If so you really are as insane as your incoherent ramblings make you out to be.
Something I think is interesting is how there are a few native American reservations that use socialist practices (UBI, free healthcare, paying for college classes) in order to keep their tribal members out of poverty. If it weren't for my tribe I never would have gotten through college.
Very Interesting...
Carrying on the tradition of Stewardship 😎👍
Except that poverty is extremely rampant in reserves especially in Canada and we have socialist policies
The reason you were able to succeed was capitalism funding those projects
That is frickin sweet to hear that they are doing that. I've heard a few stories of reservations doing socialism right and it sounds incredible
I live in Spain, a social-capitalist country. Ah yes...working fair hours, having 8+ hours of leasure every day, free healthcare, affordable housing, 1 and a half months of paid vacation per year, free mental health services, being able to switch off your work phone during the weekend, knowing nobody will call you and a guaranteed retirement pension at the age of 60. The true face of an "evil system", of course.
Spain is NOT a socialist country, but i won't stop you from marching against your interests
spain is not socialist
@@Riolupai Well it is ran by a socialist government so I don't know what you're talking about. The name of the government party is "Partido Socialista" so, you're wrong.
@@pandamilkshake just because it's called a socialist party doesnt mean it's socialist, as weird as that sounds, much like how the communist party of china doesn't really implement communist policies; although, the PSOE is social democratic which according to wikipedia is a type of socialism, so maybe youre right, it just depends on if you consider social democracy to be socialism or not
@Russ Ingram isn't a or is a? the misspelling makes it confusing
It had dawned on me recently that the current economic situation in America DOES, in fact, look a lot like feudalism. It goes nicely with the notion that corporations operate just like city states.
The USA 🇺🇸 is becoming more and more feudalist
Paddy Chayefsky put it nicely way back in 1976 in the movie "Network", in which media conglomerate owner Arthur Jensen in a famous monologue explains to rogue news anchor Howard Beale why resistance to capitalism is not only futile but foolish:
"You go on your 21 inch screen [how quaint!] and rant about America and democracy. There IS NO America, Mr. Beale. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and A&T. And Dow, DuPont, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world... The world IS A BUSINESS, Mr Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime."
Update to include Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Walmart, and Disney, among others, and there you are in 2024.
Not surprised that a lot of gen Z isn't in favor of capitalism. So much capital in this country is already owned that there's no chance for much of Gen Z to advance very far in this country.
Gen Z was born with same stories as others, but now they are old enough too see it was all a lie.
@@zenogstwitch8296 You get it. You understand. Thank you.
They want us to just rent shit, and think we don't want to own anything. It's disgusting and isn't even hard to tell anymore..
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 how ironic. Capitalism touts ownership of things, and yet it’s capitalism that makes it more challenging to own things that aren’t small.
When Baby Boomers were turning 40, they owned about 21% of the US's total wealth. Today, Millennials turning the same age collectively own four times less than that working more hours on average. Gen Z is likely going to suffer even more. Given that and the climate crisis we have inherited from the previous generations, it is becoming increasingly obvious that capitalism does not and will not provide for our survival.
Hard to have faith in this money system when people have less and less money each day.
Preach
I would like to disagree with you thinking more on capitalism the essence of it is clearly competition therefore equality of opportunity is the ideal way to make capitalism work now why are we arguing for socialism worker rights right?if im not mistaken the essence of communism is equality (some other quirks include abolition of government and currency and stuff but unrelated) I believe that socialism(socialism is a step towards xommunism not there yet but going there) is not the answer government bureacracy has never turned out fine as for minimum wage i believe that minimum wage is wholly unnecesary as long as we stop monopolies and oligopolies with harsher policies and probably abolish inherited wealth entirely instead giving the money to the government for government purposes and funding education probably that way we can maintain comptition the essence of capitalism I dont think you understand what capitalism is
What karl marx did was see what happens when capitalism goes too unregulated which indeed he correctly assessed(albeit a bit exxagerated at times but right)
@@Cecilia-ky3uw I had a stroke reading your comment but let me stop you right there. Socialism is not equal to communism and not "evolving" into communism. Or would you say germany has turned communist in the past 30 years?
Yep, that's why I hold silver and crypto.
The internet truly changed everything. Thanks to individuals like yourself, your educational videos are so important. Most don’t know that police, firefighters, military and social security are considered socialism. Truth matters.
Also, when people still do what they are supposed to do and still end up homeless and starving.
People tend to question the system
When McCarthyists describe Capitalism, they describe Capitalism in fantasy.
When McCarthyists describe Socialism, they describe Capitalism in reality.
In 2015 when bernie sanders was running I objected to the idea of socialism. Now in 2021 I find myself in support of it
Yeah the arguments for it are very nuanced and unfortunately many Americans can't see nuance or common sense. America only needs to add a few socialist policies to its capitalist system for a start. That's how other successful countries work.
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax actually, the more the government is involved, usually many things end up worse. (e.g. Holodomor)
@@Yuritarkov Socialism is when the gubment does stuff
@@thekingoffailure9967 no, thats public service. Unless you mean by big fat gov owns production of goods.
@@normiukkeli3739 incorrect, bernie is a socialist, considering he's pushing "democratic socialism" and claims stuff like Denmark is socialist (blatantly ignoring Lego Co) and praised the USSR openly
"Just wait until the old people die and we can enact real change."
Sad but ultimately true.
Yea it sounded a little dark what he said😬
@@elmangulijev5172 but it's people like my parents that are easily manipulated by right wing media who's votes are literally holding our society back, so I know exactly what he means.
I'm sixty & I would like my remaining years to be more pleasant. I was a Union steward in the eighties & at that time I thought we need to unionize the world.
Just don't discover immortallity
Not gonna happen. The Kool Aid Sippers are already programmed to not give a shit, even as their neighborhood is being bought up by Blackrock to be permanently turned into a rental property. Waiting on the eventual return of company stores and company scrip where people are just straight indentured to their corporation by choice once you got Blackrock and say Pepsico merging.
We have at least three generations of Americans who received a sub-par public education, which largely ignored both our history & our system of government. As a result the average American has no idea how either the federal, state or county governments actually work. This was deliberate as the ruling class learned the lesson of Vietnam: an educated citizenry would stand up to the capitalist death machine.
Remember that this is all from a very U.S. centric point of view. As an Australian I can say we hold a more favourable view of socialism. Don't get me wrong, we aren't socialist (although I am) but we have socialist reforms such as universal healthcare and primary and secondary education within a capitalist framework. We never experienced McCarthyism and were largely removed from much of the Cold War negativity towards socialism. We very much have a thriving left, even if the majority of it are not socialist.
People forget that we got 40 hours a week, standardized safety regulations and the like FROM the work of unions. Without them we'd still have 10 year olds getting their arms ripped off by machinery they were forced to maintenance because shutting down to take it apart would lose too much money.
You don't think that people would want and demand these thing without unions? And don't you think competition for workers would make companies offer these things as productivity went up?
Oh and why would 10 year old's work with machinery? Children don't have to work anymore because we are so much richer than in 1880.
Those are regulations, they are forced upon people by the state. A union in it's pure form is just that: a union of workers conspiring to achieve their common interests - just like unions of employers, cartels and cabals do.
@obimk1
Are you American?
Teamsters supposedly have a plan to Unionize Amazon, so that might help. I'd say unionizing retail workers too, but retail outlets are going the way of the dodo.
I'm gonna be honest and say that in the beginning I wans't really happy with how you shifted from science content to politics, but after watching some of these videos it really opened my mind to how fucked this current system is. I don't considerer myself a socialist (yet, maybe), but sure as hell don't think capitalism is working anymore. Definitely been reading alot of more about other systems. By the way, i'm part of that Gen Z who has been shifting their opinions recently
Capitalism isn't at fault for the f'd systems in our country. No financial system is better at pulling normal people out of poverty. The real problems we face trying to make a good living are the governments (federal and local), and the corruption that comes with them. Slash federal taxes in half and small business will boom like never before. Uncle Joe's Convenience Store will be able to keep a lot more money if it isn't paying 28% of it's net revenues to the feds.
You want to know why tax loopholes are so commonly used? Because if we didn't find every little write-off taxes would put us out of business. No business means no jobs, no jobs means no money.
@@Superstrike_11 It's a complex issue and you can tell from the video that Second Thought is fairly biased in this topic. Corruption can bring down any economic system, especially those in the extremes, be it the USSR or the current USA.
I'm not an expert in economics, nor close to it so the next bit comes with a grain of salt. When a system leans to the extreme in whichever direction those who exploit it get extreme power, better to have a more balanced system with multiple ways of achieving power sometimes incompatible with each other so gaining extreme power is nigh impossible. Social democracy I believe is closer to this ideal but is still far from being a perfect solution.
@@Superstrike_11 Nah pick yourself up by the boot straps and figure out a way to earn that money while doing your part to take care of the society that allowed that business to thrive in the first place, if you cant find a way to do that then your business deserves to fail and someone who can will take your place.
@@sspectre8217 The problem with that statement is how you define "balanced". Capitalism is the most balanced system for getting out of poverty (equality of oppertunity), but communism is the most balanced system for keeping everyone the same level of poor.
Power in America, and capitalism generally means wealth, but as we've seen throughout our history, people lose their wealth if their service is no longer wanted by the American people. That's another reason why capitalism is so great. The consumers control the wealth, not the government.
I've never watched a channel that made me so depressed and gave me hope at the same time. I live in Indiana and from when I left till I moved back I can't believe how repressive the labor market has become. The thing that just boggles my mind is the people that defend these labor practices tooth and nail. Even my father a life long Teamster now votes for the party that put these practices in the fast lane. Keep doing what you're doing. It's like the movie The Matrix. People are so use the the system they become dependent on it. And it may be cliche but the movie Fight Club was the first time I really took a second look at the consumer society we have become. Any way thanks for what you do. Stay left wing. Lol
Problem is we have an entire generation that thinks monopolies are "normal" and a fact or way of life. That price gouging is somehow "capitalism" and necessary. Canada and the US have a distorted and pernicious form of competition because it has primarily an economy of monopolistic power that limits real capitalistic competition, that exploits a population, rather than serving it; we know who has to mitigate the damage caused by this.
Honestly, I’m definitely a bit too young for politics to understand. I still don’t completely get what being apart of the left or right is, but at the same time it intrigues me! Taking even a glimpse on topics that include things like capitalism or exploitation of workers makes me surprised how big it seems. Still haven’t reached the age to apply but the world seems tough.
@@maxiwaxipadsleft and right came to be when the french parliament was born and the representatives of the workers sat the left and the rich folk sat at the right.
It kind of blows my mind that I'm well into my 30s and I've been a fairly politically opinionated and left-leaning person most of my life compared to those around me, and yet it's never occurred to me that I would actually prefer socialism to capitalism. Everything said in this video makes complete sense, but I'd never even really encountered these basic ideas before. I'm a patron for this channel on Patreon, and I hope others will see the value in it too so much that its subscription numbers continue to grow.
i also deeply prefer ideal socialism over capitalism. The reason i champion capitalism is because of how it handles all the nepotism and other corruption.
The US is today at the level of corruption where the USSR would have been at in 1998 if the corruption there continued increasing like it did 1981-1987.
the ruggedness needed for that allows capitalism to still exist in areas with people who exploit the system (like hasanabi, one of many socialists in mansions) in such quantity that socialism could never function.
A generation coming up and seeing the 3 generations before it struggle with getting education, jobs, and homes is circumspect of the system that has continuously enabled this regression.
@Lsoj Dixub Tell that to the hundreds of thousands who had good paying jobs and got laid off because it wasn't profitible to keep them.
They weren't lazy or stupid, they were just screwed over by capitalism.
The true lazy and stupid people are those that can look at the current system, how it's ruined our planet, and the lives of literal billions, and think there's nothing to be improved upon and they don't want to try.
@@whitestrake2760 do you think you wouldn’t be screwed over by socialism? You would put the very people who are the corrupt fuckers who you hate so much in HIGHER positions of power. You would literally centralize the governments power over the people. If you wanna live like that, there’s plenty of countries out there who offer that kind of living. I hear China and North Korea are fuckin lovely this time of year
@@trevorporter6528 China is state capitalist lmao. If you're saying that rising the ones you hate into higher positions than yours is literally socialism while thinking that it can work ONLY within a one party rule state, then you don't know anything about socialism at all. Cope harder.
@@Caramelulllll Hahahahahah you’re such an idiot it’s kinda scary. The communist part of China controls that whole country. It’s economy is a socialist economy. Do you just make your own facts up?? You should go give China a visit, I’m sure you’d love it, being a fan of oppressive regimes and all
@@trevorporter6528 thibg is capitalism doesnt help the majority of people. The also bigger problem? Noone spends time to hold the government accountable. If the peiple did the government would be different. Its supposed to work for people. Not for corporations that it does now
I'm a construction inspector. We can't get lights in the parking lot. Fourteen hours shifts are common. Rainouts without pay. Etc. Better than my grandaddy had. I guess.
Dang fourteen hours of shifts in a row, that's brutal i think work days only need to be at most 8 hours on accounts that you also need time to recover from work, are you unionised ?
@@etienne2315 8 hours at most? Your type are exactly the problem, you want to do the least and receive the most...
@@etienne2315 I'm ok with 12. At times even the occasional 14 isn't injurious. When the shift is consistent. Sucks whenever the start times go from 2am to 8 am to noon back to ten pm in the same week. Get a five hour maybe rainout Monday so you need the long hours to make forty. It's mostly doable if you do nothing else but work. Hard to do a 3am whenever you're on the job until 530pm the day before. After a string of 12 plus. Especially if you commute a distance. Any personal business that might take an hour or two, like a parent teacher conference puts me in a sleep deficit with a migraine. I've recently learned to go no carb and on those sleep deficit days to fast the long day and drink a gallon of water. Then I can recover ok. Fasting and keto carnivore I think will keep me in game shape for another decade of this young man's game. Plus the occasional nap in the truck. Bad for your knees to sleep the night. But a power nap is essential oftentimes before exhausted to extend those shifts.
@@davyjones922 Imagine that- getting the most money for least effort is the workers' best interest just as the opposite is In the employers' interest. Why should only the later be considered legitimate?
People like the taste of boot
Working 12-18 hours in hopes to have maybe a good year or two until all your wealth is stripped away to pay for care to keep you alive in a rapidly failing body
at first I read Capitalism as Cannibalism in the title and I bet my face looked visibly shook
I've always held socialist ideals. I asked my dad once when I was a child if he had two of something and someone asked him for one of them, would he give it to them - his answer was no... let them go out and earn the money for it. That made no sense to me. It still makes no sense to me. That's why I've always been an overly generous person trying to help others. I don't understand the selfish 'me first' attitude of people. BTW, I am a GenXer.
because those older generations make big gains by having normal jobs and they kept wanting more
i'm curious
do you give others one in that scenario now that you are older?
Yeah. I've been going around to estate sales lately building out my toolbox, and it blows my mind how much junk some people have accumulated. Like even from a purely selfish perspective, at some point people are genuinely deeply harming themselves by collecting and holding on to all of this stuff. I can't even claim to have selfless motives for wanting to share, for not wanting to hoard this stuff: I think I'm better off if the people around me are on my team and doing well, and I absolutely hate the idea of being slowly buried under multiple circular saws, sewing machines, food processors, and a whole house full of other tools, appliances, gadgets, etc. Even from a purely selfish mindset it just makes more sense.
I started losing faith in our systems long ago, when I realized how malleable the rules are for some and not others. Another nail in the coffin, pun intended sadly, was when our economy was so reliant on people to keep working that they put kids/teachers in danger, so the working class could keep 'the machine' going at all costs & keeping kids at home put them in mental/physical danger... Why is the safety of our children dependent on keeping them away from their homes? Are we not looking at root causes of anything?
I came from socialist country and I can tell you if socialism gets far enough you get neither socialism not capitalism. The way Americans like to overdo everything this is the real risk. Maxim of socialism is communism where private property is seized and redistributed.
You should take your children with you on the bread line and help your comrades make a nice berlin wall around you. Tweet me a photo before your phone gets confiscated for me too, if you can.
Wiki me both terms and how many people died starved in communist regimes for me and come back.
That's not the fault of capitalism, capitalism is just the principle of freely converting value (i.e. hours worked) into currency for easy trade.
Trump is for that reason the champion of the most corrupt corporate class of the USA. He represents the full investment of that class since his life has been one of successfully cheating the regulatory system itself. His decisions were those that that class wanted. The dismantling of the administrative new deal state evolved since FDR. the new deal is precisely what They see as a defeat that has to be destroyed. The greatest most powerful and biggest administrative system of a regulated capitalism ever built by tax payers money in the history of humanity is the target. And Bannon said it from the first interview when Trump took the potus. " this is the beginning of the end of the administrative state". Those were the words of Bannon. The closest advisor of the Trump adm and the direct link to the Mercers and the Koch bros. In the first week of his term. Capitalism hates competition and regulation . Big government is a word for free hand to do at will at the lower cost. Profit is sacred no matter what. Even at the cost of human life. The reason for them never wanting to stop the economy in order to stop the pandemic. They sabotaged themselves and their own system.
@@georgefurman4371 there were regulations lifted that made no sense, if you have morass of unrelated regulations that leads to fewer businesses being open etc. Hiring less people. If you think only democrats should rule and have democrat appointed ruler,just wondering
It's so enjoyable to have genuinely socialist content creators available. People who understand that liberal is not a synonym for the left. It's annoying enough having to endlessly explain that I'm not a liberal, only to then have it assumed that means I'm a conservative.
North-American neoliberals have a very limited mindset in regards to society and politics precisely because of how their mass media shaped their political mindset as the norm, while being taught to ignore the horrors perpetrated by their government (regardless of party) internally and especially abroad.
No, both parties are not the same. Republicans historically have managed to be THAT much worse. Which doesn't mean the Democrats are good because of that, not at all.
Socialist ideology is generally left leaning on the political spectrum. So regardless of whether you identify as a liberal or not you hold a lot of the same core beliefs.
@@IpSyCo Tell me you don't know what socialism is without telling me you don't know what socialism is.
@@c.b.3234 Good argument, were you always this smart?
@@c.b.3234 Have you tried applying for citizenship to some socialist countries? Let’s see there Venezuela, very appeasing. We also got North Korea, Uruguay, Laos, Greece, Ethiopia. All great countries!
As someone born in a former comunist country I can say that no extreme is a good thing. I've heard so much horror stories from my parents and grandparents of what was comunisum like. But capitalism now has it's own issues that are god awful.
In my oppinion people like Bernie have the right idea, however it's very important how they implement it. If you take a look at the history of Bulgaria after 1989 you can see what I mean.
The transition between comunisum and capitalism was not handled well at all and we are stil dealing with the issues from that 30+ years later.
It is really amazing that US faith in capitalism was as long as it was. Insane really. When Trump talked about sh'thole countries, first that came to my mind was the hellhole that US is for most of the citizen and yet they have been "ok" with it...Mind blowing.
I’m one boomer (1961) who’s never been in favour of capitalism.
Must have been tough with all the redscaring in the 80's, i hate how everyone is always saying socialism never worked while not seeing all the propoganda and wars fought to make sure it would not spread to much.
I was born in 1960. When I was in grade school boomers had fathers that went to war like Korea. But I have always liked 20th century history. Right now we are still living in the late 1800's. We haven't had a trust buster like Teddy & the Oligarchs stopped Bernie. Many politicians left & right take money from big business. They don't help their constituents they help the people who bought them.
@@etienne2315 - uh .. Give me an example of it working. Stalin, Mao, N. Korea, all experienced massive human cannibalism due to some of the worst famines in history. Yey, Socialism! Is that propaganda, too? I thoroughly enjoy how the US starts wars, but China or Russia stoking & backing communistic revolutions in Vietnam and Korea first doesn't count.. if your post wasn't so full of ignorance, it would be outright propaganda.
@@gcburns4 since when were n Korea China or the ussr socialist lmao
@Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicolvocanoconiosis and ur a tankie, don’t defend China or the USSR. Horrible regimes
12:33
George Carlin once said:
"The reason its called the American dream is you have to be asleep to believe in it."
You can tell that to the 88% of millionaires that are self made.
@@realtimberstalker most millionaires were born into their wealth or were already well off
@@KnucklesWTD I gave a real statistic. You gave an anecdote. If you want to go on the lower end, its 68% of millionaires who are self made.
@@realtimberstalker define “self made”,because you could call people like bill gates that even though his family was already well off
@@realtimberstalker Your statistic is meaningless, because it leaves out important context - namely, the existing social inequality that these "self-made" people benefitted from in order to be able to amass that wealth in the first place. There's no such thing as truly "self made" in America anymore. Show me an actual case-study of the mythical type you're referencing. Show me a case where not just one lucky person, but numerous people, have been able to create wealth from nothing under this system. And I mean really nothing. That means no family support, no rich friends, no social networks that they're born into. Just a good idea that they could make money from, without being laughed out of the room because they aren't *already* a member of a social class that investors feel "comfortable" around. Have you ever watched Shark Tank? Think you can just waltz in there off the street in your shitty clothes with a great idea and become a millionaire off of your charisma alone? Even the people on that show have had to create a working prototype of a product, at the least. How you gonna do that with no money to start with? Without help from your parents? Without already being "connected"? These "self-made" people you're referring to got where they are because they've ALWAYS had inherent advantages, literally from the starting line, that others don't. That's not a meritocracy by any means, and it's proof on its own that the table has been tilted for a long time. If we lived in an actual meritocracy, far fewer people would be advocating for radical change.
When you said "gen z, those who are 18-24" I shuddered. I'm 19 and haven't realized my entire generation are adults now.
That’s just not true I’m gen X and 16 years old LMAO
@@Moon_Lando where do you get your info, tiktok? Gen X are in their late 40s and early 50s
@@Vilify3d I meant gen Z I’m so dumb autocorrect
I never had faith in capitalism. If not for socialism and unions, I would've been homeless.
Socialism is dumb!
You should watch “Requiem for the American Dream”, on CZcams. It’s free, with ads. It’s about rising income inequality, and Noam Chomsky does a great job narrating the systemic issues that have caused such a mammoth disparity in wealth.
I will
China 🇨🇳
I can’t find it ☹️
I watched it on Netflix one time
Wealth inequality is certainly a problem. But people must keep certain things in mind. For instance, the rich are getting richer, AND the poor are getting richer. Now the gap between them is growing but thats partly because more poor people are rising up.
The second thing to keep in mind is that the universe itself is inherently unequal. Wealth follows a pareto distribution, so the majority is in the hands of a few. However, that's also true for planetary bodies. Black holes have FAR more mass than small stars like the sun, or like the plentiful commets in our solar system. And yet there's significantly fewer black holes than other objects. Or consider trees in a forest. Some trees get the most sunlight while the others beneath them stay small and low. The universe gives creates resource inequality. So it's naive to pretend any human system can avoid creating resource inequality. The goal is to find the system that creates the least inequality, but not at expense of general wealth growth. What I mean by that is, if everyone has nothing, then they are all equal. But they have nothing and they'll die. Chasing equality blindly is also an issue.
As far as I'm concerned, data shows that capitalism is the most successful system to date. Based on UN stats, sometime in the last few years obesity became a larger problem world wide than starvation. The UN had predictions for growth of developing nations and because these nations developed capitalistic economies, they grew out of poverty far faster than the UN expected.
Most of the poor people in America are richer than kings of the past. You can go to the supermarket and have access to an extreme variety of food from all around the world prepared by thousands of people. You can use your phone to argue with people across the world in real time. We just take what we have for granted so we turn our focus onto people who have more than us become envious, despite the fact that the only reason you have the things you have is because of these people who innovated and created millions of jobs and products.
I finally understand the difference between liberal and socialist. And this vid, lets just say I shared it to Facebook, and it also got me to subscribe. So much information that's needed, the timing is almost perfect.
So glad I could help!
Socialism is when the workers control the means of production.
@@PalkkiTT ohhh, it's way more than that. The google definition just does not do enough to translate it properly. Looking up Liberal and Socialism is not enough to clearly determine the difference between them. I've been stuck for over a year, trying to understand it. And the best way to do that is to know that Socialism is the system that does not have capitalism, unlike Liberal that attempts to merge Socialism and capitalism.
@@albertocon4136 well i would just correct one thing you said- liberalism is 100% in capitalism. liberalism and conservatism both exist under capitalism, where the means of production are owned privately. for example, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are liberals, but they’re no where near socialists. they still firmly support capitalism
@@diablo55 I said Liberalism is the attempt to merge capitalism, and socialism. Why would you misquote like that as you make a direct reply. And, Joe Biden and Hillary, are corporate democrats. They believe in, straight up, capitalism, and there's very little liberal in them, they about to sell us up the river with this infrastructure plan and privatize roads and bridges, that's capitalism in its raw form, there's nothing sodalist about that move. You should view the vid. If you have, view it again. I am.
Because money accumulating at the top percent and we are not truly represented when wealth buys power.
Just commenting for the algorithm so that more people find your channel
Yes, commenting and sharing videos is really helpful.
40 year olds spending nearly all of their wages on rent food and energy bills with only a few hundred left over at the end of the month if their lucky and then having to save a 50,000k deposit for a mortgage, along with students leaving university with a 60k dept and then have to drive an uber or work as a barrister for the foreseeable what could people possibly be unhappy about?
Only $50,000 for a deposit? Wow here we need $140,000. With paying high rent its impossible. Screw capitalism because it screwed us.
@@icebergrose8955 Bro im from the uk and that was an country wide average sterling deposit, in London the average deposit required is £100,000 and in a desirable area that will only get you a small apartment above a shop.
*if they're
@Hakim Habib Your reply has come straight out of the oligarchs hand book, be happy with what you have because things could be a lot wores, while we continue to strip you of your wealth, right's and social mobility along with that of your children. They said the same thing to black people in the 1960's , eg "stop complaining your not a slave anymore, and the slaves had it a lot worse". You are a tool of the ruling oligarchy and don't even realise it.
The American dream™
Short answer to the title question: It's literally killing us AND the planet.
Long answer to the title question: This beauty of a video.
@@elmascapo6588 First Stage of Grief
@@elmascapo6588 *cough cough* spanish flu *cough cough*
Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, as a person who used to live in Yugoslavia, it's very funny seeing people who defend socialism arguing with people who lived in socialist countries.
@@LaVaZ000 If capitalism helped your country out, good for you and yours. It's at a stage in mine that we're being worked to death for no wages, can't have homes or Healthcare, and some can't even have food.
Unfortunately I don't think I'll live long enough to see America become a socialist country. I'll try to keep my hopes up though. I wish I were young but I realized I was a socialist when I was 10 years old. I'm a great grandparent so you know that was a very long time ago.
Unfortunately for both Communism and Capitalism, if left unchecked (unregulated) it can become completely destructive to a society.
When boomers give you advice in getting a job by saying "Look them in the eye and give them a strong handshake"
Yeh, that doesn't matter anymore
I always hated that. When I graduated highschool in 08. The recession was in full swing. And he kept yelling at me to get a job. Why didn't I think of that.
@@TheChuckfuc And lemme guess your dad didn't have the kindness to even provide you with a Job helmet or rent out the Job Cannon so you could just fire yourself at Job land where Jobs grow on Jobbies?
@@jbreitz87 basically. He's a typical boomer.
@@jbreitz87 Fresh out of high school, I couldn't get a job without the help of my parents. No one and I mean no one would take me in for an entry level job because I didn't have any experience. I needed to help pay for rent and college right away so internships are out of the question. Thankfully my parents are close friends with the owner of an asian family diner, so I was able to land a job there as a waiter with no interview required. Im really grateful and lucky to have parents like them.
"Tell that the algorithm"
The more I watch your content (and others), the more I realize that I had started putting the pieces together long before my political reformation. One simple example of this was when I worked in retail, and we had these daily meetings where the managers would report the store’s sales from the previous day. The managers would quote a number, and then follow it up with “great work”, or, “we need to push the sale of x product”. I paid attention to the first few meetings bc I thought they were important, and then I realized that the store’s profits had no bearing on my personal well-being or wages. I kept thinking to myself, “sweet, we exceeded sales expectations yesterday, where the hell is that money going?” I couldn’t figure out why my colleagues would clap or get excited about extra sales when it did nothing for us but make us work harder for the same rate (higher sales equals more customers in store).
All of these thoughts occurred before I even understood what a union was or what workers owning the means of production could do. I think it’s a naturally occurring phenomenon to question the system (it falls apart pretty quickly IMO); the real question is, where do we take those questions? Or do they just get overrided by decades of propaganda?
I’m glad there’s content out here like Second Thought where people can continue to ask questions of themselves and society. Great work you are doing!
A lot of people never wonder about such things unfortunately. Perhaps you had been primed somehow to begin asking those questions.
"I kept thinking to myself, “sweet, we exceeded sales expectations yesterday, where the hell is that money going?” I couldn’t figure out why my colleagues would clap or get excited about extra sales when it did nothing for us but make us work harder for the same rate (higher sales equals more customers in store)."
I think the exact same thing. I am a programmer at an insurance company.
I am still a supporter of Capitalism though. You should really think of a job as experience needed to form your own company. It sounds like you owning your own startup would motivate you.
Just know that many people do not think like you. Many people, like you just said, love to work and are very happy about it.
I use my thoughts to motivate me to work at making my own money at my own company (with my friend).
@@BarrySlisk you need to already have money and connections to start a business, 99% of human population is going to work for a wage, not be a boss, because structurally the system only has so many slots at the top, and each one needs to be propped up by thousands of people below them
@@BarrySlisk if your in a postion where you can freelance, or make a bussiness thats awesome for you, and im glad it got you indidually out of poverty,
buts its becoming harder and harder for little guys to compete as monopolies like amazon rise, the economy centralizes and crushes opposition
3 companies own 88% of the S&P 500
The world has tried the two wings and both have failed in their own way. Why can't we find a balance between freedom and community, like the Nordics, for example?
No single company should ever be allowed to grow bigger and more powerful then entire countries. No single (or small handful) individual should ever be allowed that much power over entire societies.
The individuals in those cases don’t. Corporatism is as much about socialism as it is capitalism. There’s millions of shareholders that need to be catered to. That’s what dividends are for. Most profits made from companies either go back into it or go to the shareholders. The wealth of the likes of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, is in assets. If the companies go bankrupt, their wealth dramatically plummets.
I watch this guy’s videos because I don’t just want my biases confirmed, but I still disagree with him a lot. I struggle to even keep a straight face when he says socialism has a history of people helping each other. I’m sure that’s what Mao believed when he starved 50 million people to death, but at the end of it all, socialism is only utopian in theory.
@@LTRand We're talking mainly america. About 175 million people invest in the stock market there. I don't know why they do it. They mostly don't gain anything, but it's what the statistics show. Microsoft has about as many shares to give away, as there are people in the world. You don't have to be in the countries where they trade on the stock market to invest either. Anarcho capitalism is a better solution to corporatism than socialism.
@@gilgamesh310 You say your here because you don't want to be a victim of confirmation bias and that is noble. May I implore you to actually read the history on what took place under Mao during that time. Most Americans believe he sacrificed those people when the reality was completely different. Just look it up would you?
We should have a balance economic and society
@@jeremyramey3221 I have looked up various things about him. Some of it is conflicting, but at least 45 million people died under his rule and mostly as a result of the great leap forward. A lot of this may have been to his own incompetence rather than malicious intent but someone who orders his people to kill every sparrow in the country, has serious problems from the start.
This dude really has balls of steel just for risking his own channel to educate people. Much respect.
Risking? How?
He risked his whole channel... by supporting the idea that the majority of today’s youth support. That does make a lot of sense. I would like to add the video is well made and I respect the man even though we disagree. I’m just pointing out this video was not a huge risk
Quiet down wage slave
@@maka8551 Quiet down... *wage slave*
@@wheelspinproductions9214 The majority of today’s youth?
0:19 I know exactly where this is. It's in Pennsylvania at the end of Rt 70. I took that road so many times when I had to drive to Pittsburgh. It was taken in Breezewood, PA.
Thank you for your excellent quality videos! And the pdf link!
"I thank you for your question, but we are capitalist." Don't like that Nancy Pelosi dismissed the question like that.
Quiet down wage slave
Well I'm not, I'm communist. Or at least a version of communism anyway
@@bendeen364 get back to work, no bruhs here
What do you expect from a far-right politician like Pelosi?
@@maka8551 do you just go around saying the same fuckin things on every comment? Lmao what a sad little life you live. I wouldn’t have thought the Taco Bell drive-thru would be that slow.. weird
I grew up in a conservative family here in rural Oklahoma and turned against capitalism for three reasons.
The first was the cavalier elitism that exuded from people who had any kind of title, or money and the arrogant way that they wanted others to defer to them, not to mention the hubris that they showed toward myself and others. I'm not turning the other cheek like us serfs are always told to do.
The second came with time. As years went by, I saw how labor was simply a product of exploitation. I worked construction for eighteen solid years and made just enough money just to go back to work. The plans and dreams I had in my late teens and early twenties, which were not grandiose by any measure, we're always delayed and now at 37, I've come to terms with the reality that they are likely not going to happen.
Finally, the most painfull realization of all is that it really doesn't pay to be a good person in this society, it does keep you out of trouble, but it's never going to be recognized and counts for very damn little. We really do live in an expedient world where nice guys finish last and theives and sociopaths are called hero's. F&@k capitalism!
I agree, but the one thing I wanna say. The “nice guys finish last” thing is usually what self proclaimed “nice guys” say when complaining about how women don’t like them or won’t sleep with them and how they are entitled to it for “being nice” despite that being the dumbest and most toxic thing ever. I don’t think that’s how you meant it at all, but, I think it’s worth knowing what you say can have affects you don’t want too. Other than that, great message! I totally agree. Fuck capitalism!
@@ErutaniaRose I know what your saying is essentially a criticism of the incel phenomenon, which in my opinion is also an indirect result of capitalism and modernity.
I'm going to be honest about this, because I'm somewhat of an incel/mgtow myself, but I don't hate women. It is perplexing to me that alot of women whom I know with are in relationships with men who are essentially boys in their overall character. These women are getting with males who have rap sheets, adictions, or don't want to work and thus chose to be unemployed. It does get to me at times, that females want to reform them and have a sense of pity for them, when my own life has been far from privlidged.
In the end; I think this is another Avenue for elites to play devide and conquer, so I would caution all to tread lightly on these issues to avoid getting sucked into identity politics and culture wars. I think that we as a society will find an answer to these things, but not until capitalist exploitation is dealt with. Have a good day/night.
Sounds like the northern part of Maine. These little inbred pockets of kingship are everywhere in the states.
The funny thing is how capitalism is affecting these under-evolved pocket societies of generational king George’s. Old money used to rule like priests. Piss off ur plumber and you’d have to drive to Bangor just to find someone who was willing to sell ya some groceries.
Now new money is coming in, mostly with or for the new export of legalized weed, and they’ll take anybody’s money. Now the serfs are getting a taste of bare equality and the dukes are losing their girth. Everybody’s so pissed off, even the serfs, cause their norm is changing and it’s changing so fast they don’t know what to do.
Weed south of VA (or Connecticut) has been mainstream for eons and is becoming a commercialized monopoly, but weed is doing incredible things for Northern Maine. It’s giving ALL human beings basic human rights, be they yokel or newcomers. People are becoming ALLOWED to survive. It’s very serious and huge, but we prefer to pretend the north never had slaves. Sure they did and sure they do. It’s just their white neighbor, so nobody ever gave a sheet
During the pandemic in 2020, I really saw how corrupt many of the systems in America are and began to have a more socialist perspective. This video helped educate me and support more of my view points, thanks!
@@lepidoptera9337 Thanks for providing an opposing view point! I like listening and hearing the other side so I can always reevaluate my ideas and thoughts. I am familiar with contemporary socialism and capitalism definitions and implementations in society, so I don’t have to re-research the terms. However, I think you may have misunderstood the socialist perspective which is to have social ownership of the means of production, free from profit exploitation like under capitalism. Having an “anonymous bureaucrat” controlling means of production is what occurring now in the US, with many large companies and no voice to stand up to them (ex: 89% of American work force is not unionized). The idea that socialism doesn’t work in other countries is perpetuated by the US media from both parties unfortunately. There are many instances were it does work, like Denmark and Sweden. Where Sweden is ranked higher in innovation and in happiness than the US. In the instances where you say socialism has caused “poverty and starvation”, the countries you might be referring to are China and the USSR, which were ran by authoritarian figures that favored state-capitalist societies. The countries ran into issues outside the framework of socialism which caused their famines. However, they still doubled the average life expectancy of their citizens. The US media labeled them as communist to perpetuate fear and the idea that socialism doesn’t work. I also disagree that the US is plenty socialist. I would like to see free health care, an end to the prison industrial complex, and exploitative corporations amongst many other things. Maybe you should try watching the video again? :)
Really nicely articulated. Keep up the fantastic job
Second Thought has helped change my ideology from social democrat to socialist. Reforming capitalism isn't enough when the world is on fire.
@@alex29443
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Yup 👍
@@alex29443 Source: Just trust me dude.
Capitalism is not responsible for all the worlds problems lmao. The world has always been on fire. In fact it has never been more peaceful and rich than it is today.
Yeah so it's OK to sell my freedom to the communist government and pretend everything is fine and stand for 5 hours to buy bread and get killed for saying that the system is bad.
I'd rather sell my freedom to 5 competing corporations than sell my freedom to 1 CCP. My country has experienced socialism, and is still suffering because of that. I don't want any of that crap anywhere near.
I’m old. But I’ve still changed my mind. I can see the propaganda for what it is.
@Odd Gaming Either that, or they're calling out capitalist propaganda that works to keep the status quo as is.
@@redrhinos55 you wanna say good bye to capitalism? Do you understand that life expectancy is longer, food never runs out, hygiene actually exists, clean water is limitless, and the ability to sit down and enjoy life is a totally foreign concept to any other time period than we're in now? You do realize that people went months without bathing and smelled like shit all the time? Do you really want to go to a system where people died of all kinds of diseases that are now easily curable? Despite what alarmists keep brainwashing you with no we are not gonna die because of climate change. There's enough fuel that can power our cars forever. Imagine living without something as simple as a car. You'd go from being able to see the entire world to living in a dingy hut without capitalism.
@Odd Gaming No, it isn’t propaganda but it is biased, which is the next thing you have to watch out for. But watch the 1950s propaganda against communism because it’s way more obvious. They literally describe capitalism, say it’s evil and then call it communism. The Russian propaganda at the time was very poor quality, but I’ve watched that too. We have all forms of socialism here, the best examples are the condos and hoas i manage. But they fight like crazy because people want power.
You can see all the propaganda you want.
If you want to see how many people have died in communism regimes...well, google that for me before your gentle and righteous government confiscate your phone and shut downs the free net.
@@vitalityfox I really hope this comment is satire. Bc literally everything you said is from an egocentric viewpoint that denies the existence of people who have it worse than you, people who do not have enough food to live most days, people that die from curable diesases because they can't afford medication (both of which happens in "first-world countries" too btw). Also from a frankly ridiculously ignorant viewpoint assuming resources will never run out under infinite growth, denying basic facts of not just Science but common sense.
Feel free to r/woooosh me, I don't care. This shit can't go on like this.
For me as European it is alwas so silly to see how scared privileged US Americans are of socialism. They know that socialism means to share a cake instead of taking all of it.
I'm from Switzerland, ranked as one of the top 3 best countries in the world to live in. Qe have a lot of socialist policies (especially when it comes to employee and wealth protection) and still the country has a very stable and sustainable economy with nearly zero homeless people and a very low crime rate but the highest concentration of millionaires per square km in the world. The normal work class here can live in dignity, earn enough to live a good live, without exploitation unlike in the US.
The US really needs a bunch of socialism asap!! It doesn't have to be 100% but at least to balance the current institutional system out. Like come on. The people there deserve better.
Every Western nation has some mix of capitalism and socialism that the electorate is willing to tolerate or prefers. Arguably neither socialism nor capitalism is sustainable without the other. Without socialistic measures, capitalism always cannibalizes its own markets and has to therefore always be expanding to new markets, emerging markets, and a growing population, but when globalization is achieved, it has no where to grow.
I was once having an online conversation with someone about the problems of Capitalism and someone else chimed in with a remark that shocked me: He thought "Capitalism" meant that I worked for the government, and my opposition to it must be because I worked for the post office. 😳 (whatever THAT means)
The USA never wanted their people to be smart, but that was just ridiculous.
Thank you for trying to educate the masses. It is desperately needed. lol
Let's not forget the 8 hour day was supposed to be a maximum.
@L M The Communist party in Denmark has been campaigning for a 6 hour workday for a while now.
When the pay is low you have to work more hours pal
69 likes, nice.
@@user-nf9xc7ww7m I wish I only had to work 15 hours a week for 32 bucks an hour ;-;
please everyone here, don’t just watch videos about these things, go out, connect with people, do mutual aid, set up community gardens or even your own! even if you think you can’t do something there’s no reason to not atleast try, enjoy yourself, love u all
@@screwsinabell asking this generation to be social is alot for some
Kinda hard for half of us do to that when we barely even have the motivation get out of bed and make it to work to barely feed ourselves and maybe put a roof over our heads
At least spread these educational videos in your social circles.
Don't have much of a community around here and not entirely sure I want my dogs to ruin the garden.
To me the problem with our form of capitalism is the enough, is never good enough. Everything is about growth and “more”. It just seems that the phrase “something somewhere has to break” is ringing true.
I appreciate your even demeanor and calm, simple explanations of your opinions.
I was born in 1958. Capitalism needs to go the way of the dinosaur. The sooner the better. Not all of us old folks are anti progress. I just hope to live long enough to see the positive effects of the changes. The future depends on you young folks.
1964 for here. Yes. They have been selling us lies and 'dreams' for decades all the while oppressing the majority of people in several different ways. The veneer of 'exceptionalism' has peeled enough to show those of us who aren't indoctrinated or complicit the dystopic reality beneath.
@@RobertTempleton64 1964 here too. I'm originally from southern Europe (Spain) although I've been living in north America for 3 decades. I favor a transition leaving capitalism behind and into post-scarcity resource based economy. We have more technology now than ever and yet, today the population at large is much worse off.
1958 from France. Agree. Gen Z fighting
Agree, Capitalism has had its time in the sun and helped move the planet forward just like slavery did (which capitalism is by different rules) but the time to move onto a better way of distributing the benefits of advancement to all humans needs to happen now & there will be no stopping it from happening. The only question is whether it will happen with or without massive loose of life. Gen Z are the future as they are the best educated & informed while being the least bigoted & selfish generation so far. They are the ones facing the true cost of endless capitalism & they will be the ones that have to solve those problems when they get into power.
@@RobertTempleton64 I too am for meteor striking capitalism 🙏
It is so VERY good to have educated, knowledgeable sources who can get out some truth, perspective and accurate, informed content for people to think about. I hope we can continue pulling the curtain down to expose the cancer-like spread of social, economic, political and environmental detriment of the capitalist system; it's a race between this destructive system and our world and its long-term survival. Thumbs up Second Thought!
Great video. Thank you for shooting straight. Your positivity is refreshing and contagious.
For the past couple years I've considered myself a social democrat. It's a shame not many Americans understand it that well.
"We're capitalists, and that's just the way it is". We know Pelosi, and that's the problem.
Do yourself a favor and spend a week of your life learning about the rest of the world, history, geopolitics. Lots of great content. Leave your party politics out of it. You'd be shocked how much you don't know and how much of a bubble hockey mindset you're trapped in.
Gregg, I am intrigued, but this is quite vague. Any specific sources you could recommend? CZcams channels/series, websites, etc.
@@wyatthatch4031 Kraut and Brain4Breakfast.
You can also just search up the History of a certain Country.
(Like Turkey or Mexico.).
Check out Shaun, we're in hell, hbomberguy, vaush, the serfs, thought slime. From there you can find tons more leftist youtubers
@@LukeMcGuireoides Oh I know them all very well. Vaush gets on my nerves though. Still like him
“fascism is a natural outgrowth of capitalism in crisis”
as a wise man once said, “what happens when countries run out of cash? they either go commie, or they go fash”
Jreg is our teacher and saviour
Bro well said
Allot of people think fascism is what we should worry about and ignore socialism and it’s many forms not realizing that they both just 2 sides of the same coin.
They are both to be avoided.
@@justSTUMBLEDupon This entire video dismantled this assumption. Socialism or Barbarism are the only two ways forward.
@@BifronsCandle either way the people will continue to get fucked by the governments over them, and socialism seems to be fucking them worse, so if people dont like true socialism in this country, it seems like we'll just revert back to capitalism
People aren't losing faith in capitalism, the system is just outdated and naturally dying out.
I hope not
In Germany Liberalism often means Economic Liberalism if not specified otherwise. But sometimes Left-Liberalism is used for the politics of the german green party. They combine social/left ideas with the german understanding of liberalism.
It's interesting that US-americans seem to have a different definition of the word liberalism.
Most Americans on the right do not understand that Republicanism and liberalism are legitimate values and ideologies of US society. It is sad to see the the GOP no longer embraces Republicanism, and the Neo-liberals have abandoned liberalism; for greed.
As a Gen Z, can't wait till this ideology starts to get going !
I am sorry to tell you but never in the history of the world this ideology started to get goint by itself. It needs a huge movement of the people to make a change. So, don't wait, start from you.
@@fichinesonline He’s right. Millions upons millions of dollars are spent every year trying to suppress leftist movement.
Society will try to beat this ideology out of you. Be ready, fight back, and don't give up.
@@BS-ln5om As if communists did any different with capitalism and opposing ideas
Well you being a gen Z just says that you have learned absolutely nothing about either capitalism or socialism. If you capitalism to disappear you obviously have no idea what it does
“Always tip well.”
Meanwhile, Chipotle limits tips to 50% of the bill. Can’t have their cogs *sustaining* now, can we?
If you want to tip my guys a lot, you better buy more from me first or that's not fair.
@@randomlygeneratedname7171 No
@@randomlygeneratedname7171 "wahhhhh it's not fair if my servers get to pay rent this month unless i get a new Lambo out of it" lmao fuck off dude
Or just tip cash I’m sure the limit is only with cards
@@randomlygeneratedname7171 bro what
All your vids brings me to tears with your truth and just straight humanity. Keep it up never stop cause they won’t.
"Well gee there young kiddo, why don't you just work at mcdonalds during the summer to pay for college instead of taking out student loans."
I'll be honest, I came in here skeptical. but I think I can get behind this.
Glad to hear it!
Same here. Now I agree with Socialism
@@SecondThought
What benefits can you say capitalism has?
Also explain how capitalism is completely flawed if it worked for so many countries I.e China, Japan, US, Britain and many more
Asking in good faith...
Younger folks always fall for socialism. Once you own land, then learn what will happen to your property under socialist rule.
@@Rob--so you fell victim to hypocrisy even though you’ve never lived under socialism? Damn
I love the United States because it’s my home, but as I’m growing up I’m starting to realize so many issues with it especially in terms of its economic system, labor policies, and lack of prioritizing the people’s well-being. I still love it because it’s my home but I would just love to see it get to the point where the average American is happy and there isn’t such a large portion suffering from anxiety and stress.
If don’t see change in the next 10 years I’m leaving the U.S.
@@madisoncontroversial7348 We won't miss you.
@@madisoncontroversial7348 Leave and go to a truely socialist state. Not Germany or Denmark or Sweden but to North Korea or Cuba. There you can experience true socialism and you would want to comeback.
@@markdirtr4041 North Korea is **Definitely** not socialist, and no, if you call yourself something it doesn't mean you are that. You have to look at facts, and in facts North Korea is an absolute monarchy/dictatorship.
Ever heard of SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, etc.)
It’s good to know I am not totally alone.
I live in Brazil, and here capitalism was never a hope, and US hands are in every shit that keep us in this state of disarray.
Can't wait till the revolution. It will be in 4k this time
Spoiler alert- the liberal socialists who are scared of guns don’t win. Shocker, I know.
America loses when that happens, and the rest of the world gets a little better. I cant wait either, hope we turn the marine base you guys have here in Norway into a "how american socialism destroyed their country and saved the world" memorial. Best of luck with the socialist revolution, they always work out great I hear.
@@fonzy2469 lmao let them “revolt”. They’ll all die within a day
@@fonzy2469 I don't think America will lose. The average American loses more under capitalism than any other OECD nation. The GDP might suffer but average wages, healthcare, life expectancy, and happiness indexes would all rise imo.
@@fonzy2469 America is losing now under capitalism...
I wish they took into account how gen Z isn't even fully grown yet. I'm a Teenager man. While I can't deny my generation is more liberal. Most of aren't even legally adults yet.
Exactly, capitalism is fine when you have capital. I saw a quote saying wait until the old people die and then change can be make, wait until the young people become the conservative old people
Liberal is not the right term for your generation. Leftists is more appropriate
Quiet down wage slave
@@isaacmillen8789 Its more complicated then that
Teens are getting increasingly more into politics in this new era of information. Hell, I was into libertarianism at like 16, back then it made sense to me. Young people are really capable of changing their views when presented with new influences.
We need to adopt social democracy, similar to the Nordic Model. The military should also have its budget lowered with the money being invested into clean energy, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and space travel.
I'm sorry but as a European I don't think the Nordic model is good enough. Maybe for America it would be a huge change but it's a system that still works in a capitalistic framework and has its own errors. Especially when it comes to the urgency of global warming, what I don't like is the the EU cares about the environment but with light green policies (wanting to be eco friendly yet still allowing unsustainable corporation activities). It's very hypocritical if you ask me. Still, for America the difference would be tremendous but if you want to remove these problems from the root, accepting capitalism won't work.
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