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

  1. "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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6.  @tomblaise  So only private property owners and governments can protect something? People cant organize to protect their community? Really?
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  7. No, they should have independence.
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  8.  @Klokinator  We should ban both private property and government.
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  9.  @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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  10.  @nuance9000  We have to end the capitalist system.
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  11.  @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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  12. That's what America was built on though. Its the most American thing you can do.
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  13. 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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  14.  @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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  15. True, one is a factory and the other is a restaurant, and they are both filled with dangers...
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  16. WAYYYY too much credit. MPU can be such a letdown
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  17. ​ @nunyabidness3075 Weird, when utilities are publicly owned they get cheaper utilities. Almost like the regulations aren't the problem
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  18. Workers deserve to control the means of production. I support Unions crushing capitalism and giving power to us workers!!!
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  19.  @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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  20.  @Atreus21  Sure, if you hate workers rights and think oligarchies should rule the world
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  21.  @TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy  Please explain to me how this is similar to venezuela
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  22. ​ @gregorymalchuk272 Weird, the USSR was massively innovative. It's like you just believe capitalist propaganda without a second thought.
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  23.  @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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  24. ​@DavidH50 Wow, lots of old people moving to Florida. You got us.
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  25.  @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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  26. ​ @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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  27. ​ @gregorymalchuk272 No, for-profit companies did not give us the modern world.
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  28.  @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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  29.  @TheRealLesterGreen  When your ability to make money comes from exploitation of others, your ability should be stopped at all costs.
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  30. 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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  31. Gotta strengthen unions to make that happen
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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36.  @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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  37. ​ @JamesTDG nope, just capitalism
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  38.  @MichaelMayo-tf5jz  Yellow trucking company was shut down because of poor management. Unions dont manage the companies.
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  39. ​ @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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  40. ​ @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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  41.  @DavidLindes  Even if he sees it he still wont care. He isnt doing anything to break up any other monopolies and in many ways throughout his career has helped them do it. He is on their side.
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  42. He knows and doesnt give a shit.
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  43. ​@MasterDebater_Yoda How many of those jobs were well paying with fu? How many of these "new" jobs were just jobs returning from the pandemic? As for unemployment, when Biden took over, we were in a pandemic, and then millions were thrown off unemployment while still in a pandemic. How was that helpful? And how much is his economic plans actually helping those in poverty? You seem to be bragging about nothing. Most jobs "created" were just jobs coming back. And many of the new ones pay like absolute trash with no benefits. Throwing people off unemployment during a pandemic to make the capitalists happy also isn't a good thing. I'm not going to go though everything you said, but I do want to remind you that child poverty went right back up when we ended the tax credit. Good job repeating talking points without ever looking into the effects of them. And you should probably look into all the protections the EPA is dropping while under Biden. And oh boy, can't forget about the record number of oil drilling permits given out, almost as if it dwarfs the small amount being invested in green energy.
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  44.  @jonathanjones3126  "most European countries are the size of some of our states" And most people travel within their state. What's your point? "trains don't scale as good as planes for long distance" Yes they do. See Chinas massive HSR network. Planes need massive infrastructure to use and remove a lot of land that could be developed in better ways. Trains require significantly less space. There are countless videos that show the countless different corridor's in USA for HSR when compared to corridors in other parts of the world. You dont know what you are talking about and are just repeating baseless talking points.
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  45.  @springerworks002  "Social security is a charity." You dont pay into charities. You pay into Social Security. Thus it is not a charity, but you getting your money back during retirement. Like, do you not understand how social security works? Do you know why social security exists in the first place?
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  46. ​​ @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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  47.  @TheModdedwarfare3  I know, but that would actually require completely dismantling our system. Reform will never be enough
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  48.  @dcg590  Those "successful" people are only successful because of other peoples labor. Cant be rich without someone else being poor.
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  49.  @rygy729  Theres really not that much written. I write multiple paragraphs at a time. There's a lot of information to share.
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  50.  @TheRealLesterGreen  Private property is literally exploitation. Private property was created by government to reward those loyal to them and to spread their influence. It was used literally for the purpose of forcing indigenous people into servitude for these empires and private property owners. All land that is considered private property was originally taken by force to make it private property. Saying landlords arent exploiting people is completely contradictory to the reason for the creation of private property, and that's exploitation.
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