Comments by "D Mc" (@dmc8092) on "Ayn Rand's Philosophy on Helping the Poor (Pt. 3) | Yaron Brook | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.

  1. "Capitalism at any time creates more jobs than people"? Does he have any evidence of that at all?
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  2. Wait, he thinks things were good for people during the Industrial Revolution and Gilded Age? Has he read history at all? Child labor? Capitalism has no effect on wife beating drunks. This is all completely ridiculous.
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  3. Michael Burgendy You really think small children working in mines are doing it voluntarily? Are you really that naive?
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  4. Michael Burgendy History would prove you wrong. The problem with this philosophy is that it doesn't work in real life. It relies on people just believing what they say without actually looking at real life.
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  5. Michael Burgendy That's not a definition of capitalism. The benefit of the two parties doesn't come in to it. Also, with slave labor the owners and buyers benefited--the workers didn't.  The real definition of capitalism is: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. And the idea that this system automatically benefits everyone is incredibly naive.
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  6. Dave, how much of this are you buying?
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  7. Michael Burgendy This, at base, shows the bankruptcy of this whole philosophy that you have to come up with just truly mendacious statements like this to justify it. You should really be ashamed of yourself.
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  8. Michael Burgendy And back to your ridiculous defense of child labor--it's very much in the same spirit as the conservatives who claim that slavery was just a steady job for room and board. It's completely mendacious.
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  9. Michael Burgendy Companies can profit in the short term, poison the environment and their customers, go out of business and walk away before anyone is able to sue them. It happens all the time.
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  10. Michael Burgendy I'm saying that's not necessary for capitalism. In capitalism the profit is the motive, the satisfaction of the consumer and employees is not a point. Sometimes they are but that's not the primary motivation. In capitalism lead toys have been sold, which poison the consumer but that doesn't matter to the profit line.
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