Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "General George S. Patton, The Biscari Massacre and The Slapping Incidents" video.

  1.  @thewayfarer8849  I would probably have some rather interesting discussions with the two of you. I tend to be a liberal conservative myself - I want social programs to help the needy, but am concerned about fiscal responsibility. I also agree with you about Marx, someone who never really worked a day in his life talking about the conditions of the working man. It is doubly ironic that all the working conditions that caused Marx to write is treatise on "scientific economics" (which is neither scientific nor discusses economics sensibly) have almost all been addressed by democratic means, and Marxism had the exact opposite effect to what it was supposed to do. I would suggest to your mother that the real problem not necessarily distribution of power, but rather the hoarding of wealth by individuals. We need the wealthy as they provide a source of seed money and investment to get enterprises off the ground. Indeed, it is unavoidable, since wealth is an incentive for people to attain, rather like a prize for winning a race. So, it is not a bad thing in and of itself. However, if the money is not invested wisely but rather hoarded or used for self-aggrandizement, it does no good and results in economic stagnation. This is something that has occurred time and again throughout history, and has caused the decline of many civilizations. Unfortunately, history is something that theorists always seem to ignore, the other being human nature (particularly the darker, nastier side).
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