Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "Rwanda Rebellion, Reparations And Romance | Pod Save The Uk" video.

  1. We almost always boil eggs by the dozen, if I'm working hard I'll often eat several for lunch. I used to boil 3 at a time when I lived alone, so I could bring them to eat, boiling one seems like going for a hair cut and only trimming 1/12th of your hair! I usually like to carry some cash, but you shouldn't carry more than a small % of your total cash assets, unless you're a pimp, they need to carry a bill roll iirc. Wait, is Coco a pimp!? It's a bit of a moot/dumb point, but I think it's worth remembering that the colonial powers did not need explicit slavery to exploit a local economy completely, the real issue was that they restricted those countries ability to invest in their own infrastructure/future, as well as restrict very heavily all trade that wasn't with the parent country. I suppose I shouldn't leave out that the colonial powers also made a point of playing the subgroups of their colonies against one another, not unlike how the modern right uses racism among the poor to further empower the wealthy, borders were deliberately set up so the locals would always have an 'other' to hate, as well as the horrific brutality designed to traumatize whole cultures for centuries. Those things resulted in brutally stunted economies that by definition cannot ever catch up to their former colonial oppressors. People seem to forget that one of the reasons we got rid of slavery was that it's an economic depressant, mostly because you have a large number of workers who aren't consumers (that you have to provide for btw, you can literally pay people sub-starvation wages under post-slavery capitalism because it's the workers problem that they're too hungry to work, the capitalist can just find newer, more desperate workers), with that extra wealth being piled into the coffers of the already wealthy, were it is never used for consumption, meaning it's economically non-existent. Ironically, as capitalism got more and more exploitative, the workers couldn't continue to consume without going into debt, hence the massive debt crisis as workers struggle to maintain their standard of living. As wealth continues to disappear into the coffers of the ultra-wealthy it is happening again, the solution the right in the US has is to move back towards slavery step by step, ignoring that doing so has been killing their economy since the 60s, when it was unthreatened in it's global hegemony. Arguably the US economy has never recovered from the incompetence of regan's 'feed the rich/starve the poor' policies, it's infrastructure is now badly outdated/crumbling and the government is simply too poor to rebuild because of tax cuts to the rich. I remember hearing about the spongey concrete issue in the UK, so I guess you guys have similar concerns, since you also don't tax your ultra-wealthy enough.
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