Comments by "Sky is really High" (@skyisreallyhigh3333) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1.  @allenlink8032  nO oNe Is FoRcEd To Do AnYtHiNg Yes, we are all literally forced to work, or we die, which isn't a choice.
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  2. "Capitalism not the problem" I love how he said this after his wife just said in the 80's AT&T had to be broken up. If we need to keep breaking up companies because they get to big, than how is the conclusion that capitalism isn't bad? Its what lead to these monopolies that need to be broken up over and over and over again.
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  3. We should ban both corporations from owning property, and people from owning more than 1. You dont need a second rental property.
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  4. Should we ban it? No. Should we force employers to pay a thriving wage and the discourage tipping? Yes, but if someone wants to tip, thats their money to give to who they want.
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  5. It started out that way, then for a short period from the 30's to 80's, we actually had good working class policies. Our country was literally founded by capitalists. That's why only land owning white men could vote.
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  6.  @TheModdedwarfare3  The majority of who? Puerto Ricans or the white settlers? Hawaii voted to be a state, and yet its not what the natives wanted. They moved enough white people there, and the white people voted to become a state.
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  7.  @tomblaise  So only private property owners and governments can protect something? People cant organize to protect their community? Really?
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  8.  @notpublic8961  Humans were innovating long before money ever existed. Humans innovate, that's what we do. Humans dont need a profit motive to innovate. Never have. Never will. Just to desire to make life easier. But according to you, humans never innovated until humans innovated the idea of money, and then coinage.
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  9. No, they should have independence.
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  10.  @Klokinator  We should ban both private property and government.
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  11.  @RichardDuncan-ju1xk  I cant solely answer that, but I'm a big fan of looking at indigenous cultures and learning how they handled governance and bringing that to the present. Giving land back to indigenous cultures would be the first step
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  12.  @nuance9000  We have to end the capitalist system.
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  13.  @landlordnation  Lol, yeah its not really the property taxes making the rents raise as much as they are. Landlords large and small collude together to keep raising rents. This isn't a big secret and we need to stop blaming it all on taxes. Landlords are greedy leeches.
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  14.  @crusherven  No, businesses adopt these models because of how many people will pay for the service without ever using it. A gym is a subscription service, a service that would not be profitable if there weren't swaths of people who sign up for a gym, use it a few times, then dont go back but keep paying for it for a long time.
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  15. "Capitalism infuriates me" Fixed it for you
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  16. That's what America was built on though. Its the most American thing you can do.
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  17. This has literally nothing to do with unions. This has to do with you wanting something and them wanting something in return for it.
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  18.  @RealShaktimaan  Wow, that's so cool. So what about non-profits?
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  19.  @yogawithjengentleyoga3614  Asking what could go wrong while we are seeing massive rent spikes and a rise in homelessness is ironic as fuck.
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  20. True, one is a factory and the other is a restaurant, and they are both filled with dangers...
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  21.  @dominicfucinari1942  Yes, its capitalism
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  22. WAYYYY too much credit. MPU can be such a letdown
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  23. ​ @nunyabidness3075 Weird, when utilities are publicly owned they get cheaper utilities. Almost like the regulations aren't the problem
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  24. Workers deserve to control the means of production. I support Unions crushing capitalism and giving power to us workers!!!
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  25.  @Atreus21  Sure, if you hate workers rights and think oligarchies should rule the world
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  26.  @Jimraynor45  vOluNtArIlY aGrEeD tO There are no voluntary agreements under a system that doesnt meet peoples needs first. Learn what the word voluntary means and then explain how when the options are to work or be homeless its voluntary to take a job.
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  27.  @Your_mom736  "I can see both sides. In the end, if we do want to move closer to solar and EV. This is the only logical direction." Or we could just recycle the massive amount of copper that gets thrown into landfills everyday... We also dont want to move towards EV's, we want to move away from cars
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  28. ​ @gregorymalchuk272 Weird, the USSR was massively innovative. It's like you just believe capitalist propaganda without a second thought.
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  29.  @TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy  Please explain to me how this is similar to venezuela
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  30. ​@DavidH50 Wow, lots of old people moving to Florida. You got us.
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  31. ​@wakeupamerica2024 I dont see anyone playing victim, but I do see plenty of people who dont see the reality of our socioeconomic system and instead defend mass exploitation to make others rich.
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  32. Then go be like her
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  33. ​ @BigTrees4ever  So because modern capitalism isn't what Smith defined in "Wealth of Nations", that means this isn't capitalism? That just isn't true. What we are living under is capitalism, plain and simple. Smith was also a myth maker who ignored what was happening in what was his present day England and wrote about a utopia in Wealth of Nations. I find him to be a terrible philosopher to look at for inspiration. Our western economy really doesn't have elements of workers controlling the means of production at all. Calling what we have as corporate socialism is just butchering what the meaning of socialism is. Its capitalism. This is how capitalism has always worked. Capitalism is not free market economics. Free market economics existed long before capitalism did. In the Middle East surrounding the Indian Ocean, they had a free market system going that they took very seriously. The Indian Ocean was very peaceful for hundreds of years until the capitalists came in and started bombarding everything. What the middle east had was not capitalism, and they knew that centering the profit motive would lead to disaster. They could have become a capitalist empire, but never did. China has also been in the same position hundreds of years ago. You believe in a utopian capitalism created by enlightenment era philosophers who created myth to justify colonialism and imperialism, two major aspects of capitalism. You decide that because we don't live in the Utopia dreamed up by Smith, than we aren't living under capitalism. to sum up, markets aren't capitalism. Capitalism is a socio-economic system based especially on private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the labor force. That's what we have. I highly suggest you read Debt: "The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber and "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" and "The Prehistory of Private Property" by Grant S. McCall and Karl Widerquist Happy reading
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  34.  @andrewreynolds9371  No, our country was literally set up to benefit the capitalist class. The democratic and Republic party weren't started by concerned citizens, but by capitalist looking to take power. Just because working class people sometimes get wins, doesn't mean the parties are filled with concerned citizens playing politician
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  35. ​ @gregorymalchuk272 No, for-profit companies did not give us the modern world.
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  36.  @sethj4237  No, states are not far more adept to deal with this matter considering people move across state lines all the time.
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  37. If people can't criticize their leaders while they are actively being the leader, then how can we be a democracy?
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  38. Gotta strengthen unions to make that happen
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  39.  @TheRealLesterGreen  When your ability to make money comes from exploitation of others, your ability should be stopped at all costs.
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  40. That's not how that works at all. They dont tax profits, they tax revenue. They tax donations. Do non-profits need to be fixed? Yes. Does fixing them include removing 30% of their funding to give to the government who will just turn around and give that money to corporations? No
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  41.  @sofamiller7133  So you think this neoliberal capitalism we live in is good? Because your statement really just tells me you have no idea what you are talking about. What are "economic facts" when all of economics is just completely made up. Cant have facts when you can change the rules
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  42.  @thinkharder9332  "If private schools are so terrible why are the considered better than public schools, and where most people with the means to send their children there do so?" They send their children there to keep everything in the club. That's the reason. ITs all about making sure your kids know who they need to know and to do everything they can to keep the plebeian's out. Rich people doing something doesn't make it better
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  43. non-competes are very capitalistic. Capitalism has nothing to do with competition and it never has. The point of capitalism is to capitalize. The point is to make as much profit as possible.
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  44. ​ @JamesTDG nope, just capitalism
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  45. To be fair, that's how we also got the new deal. Also, to be fair, what's happening is nowhere close to the new deal.
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  46. ​ @prrplex5594  "To say monopolies are intrinsic to capitalism is to believe either capitalism shouldn't or can't be regulated and that is a very defeatist perspective" That's not what that means. Monopolies are intrinsic to capitalism because the goal for capitalists is to own more private property to generate more profits. Monopolies are the natural consequence of capitalism. Marx does a great job of laying out how that is true in "Capital". For it to be a defeatist perspective, the person saying it must believe capitalism is how we should organize our economic and social system. For the many people who want capitalism abolished, there is nothing defeatist about believing the monopolies are intrinsic to capitalism or that it cant be regulated. We have hundreds of years of capitalist history, all of it incredibly bloody, and more than enough examples of it being regulated and then those regulations latter on being repealed because the capitalists worked for decades to make it happen. Capitalism can not be regulated indefinitely. In the European countries you likely think of when you think of socialism being mixed with capitalism, they are slowly losing all the social safety nets due to the capitalists working to get rid of them so they can capitalize everything. We saw it happen here in USA too.
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  47. ​​ @llpolluxll We did watch the video. Negotiating only 10 drugs and only for people on Medicare and it jot being implemented until 2026 is NOT A WIN
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  48.  @TheModdedwarfare3  I know, but that would actually require completely dismantling our system. Reform will never be enough
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  49.  @dcg590  Those "successful" people are only successful because of other peoples labor. Cant be rich without someone else being poor.
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  50. ​ @siglandoe3913  I think it is you that is missing the point. The landlord is not the one paying for that mortgage. The tenet indirectly is. The landlord receives equity through someone else's labor. On top of the free equity and gains in that equity, landlords also require monthly profit in terms of rent. But yes, we should totally be sympathizing with the landlords over rent controls that keep people in their homes. Maybe don't own more property than you can live on? Maybe stop believing that you should be allowed to live off someone else's labor.
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