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

  1.  @amitsunoko7270  Cool story bro
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  2.  @charlesphilhower1452  Only idiot here seems to be you. Houses require very little maintenance. Y'all act if y'all have to replace the roof every 3 years.
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  3. ​@logans3365 Capitalism never started out great, though. It's always been shit for the majority.
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  4. ​ @BigTrees4ever  "Smith came up with the term, he defined the term, and that’s that." No he didn't. The term "capitalism" was coined by socialist Louis Blanc to describe the economic system currently going on in his time. In Smiths time, capitalism was already happening for over 200 years. Capitalism got its start at around 1450. I have already read Smiths "Wealth of Nations". I found him to be a myth maker and nothing more, because that's what he did. He came up with the silly notion that barter came before bullion, even though that's not what happened. Barter has never happened in the way Smith describes. From Caroline Humphrey's "Barter and Economic Disintegration" “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing” Smiths entire basis for our economic system is just flat our wrong. We know from translating ancient Sumerian tablets that they used virtual money, or credit. Then at around 600 BC the first coins were invented. According to Smith the Sumerians should have been bartering with each other, yet they weren't. Barter between neighbors as Smith describes only happens in societies with bullion where the members don't have any cash on hand. His goal was to make it out so that the laws of economics is no different than the laws of physics, which means that they are immutable. Sadly, the laws of "economics" aren't set in stone and have changed countless times throughout human history. A study of anthropology shows this very much to be true. Again, Smith is a terrible person to look towards when it comes to how we should organize society. Trying to define capitalism purely on one philosophers definition is also naïve as fuck. Using the definition for capitalism set by someone trying to justify violent enclosure, imperialism, and colonialism is naïve as fuck. Enlightenment era philosophers by and large are terrible people to listen to when it comes to how we should organize society. To me, the best people to define capitalism are those who have been oppressed by it, not those who benefit off it. The beneficiaries will always try to downplay any oppression happening under their system. Why wouldn't they?
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  5.  @LoveableLincoln32  Why do towns need economic prospect? Dont you see how you are pointing out a major contradiction with capitalism?
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  6.  @zacharyharwell351  No, they really dont.
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  7.  @bigmike9433  You're very likely lying, and if you aren't, what's your point exactly? Do you think you as an employer are representative of all employers everywhere? I swear you morons can only take things personally when everyone else is talking about systemic issues.
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  8. Nah, they had the money, they just didn't want to spend it. Don't ever believe a landlord when they say they don't have money. Its always a lie.
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  9.  @seriouslyshortofnormal925  "They don't." Yes, they do. You saying they dont doesnt change the reality of the global capitalist world.
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  10.  @jonathanjones3126  "Nationalized assets usually fall apart and are very poorly managed" No they dont and no they aren't. They fall apart because under global capitalist all the capitalists choose to divest from economies that are nationalizing, which completely destroys the economy. Keep deep throating that boot.
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  11.  @jonathanjones3126  "workers use the tools and resources provided by the owners" The "owner" couldn't buy the tools without the profits generated by the workers in the first place. "he workers get their of the share of the profits in wages." Wages aren't profits. Wages are an expense. "I they want more they should open their own business" Cant do that when wages are so low they dont even cover the full cost of living. Stay on your knees for the capitalist's. You are never going to be rich. You will forever be an embarrassed wannabe millionaire.
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  12.  @seriouslyshortofnormal925  "The person suggesting the profits should go to the workers would never accept the inverse: that the costs should also go to the workers meaning that workers would not be paid if no profit exists, " Sounds like you dont understand what a worker cooperative is. A worker cooperative is a company owned by the workers. That means they have to also think about the costs of business. Which means your statement is just a completely ignorant statement. Workers getting the profits while also thinking about the cost of business already exists. "Another issue is that the extreme focus on getting workers paid at the expense of the owners is that it requires an infringement on both liberty and property," Oh wow, not your property which was originally stolen from indigenous people through mass violence. It amazes me how you can claim to care about property rights when this entire system is built off the genocide of indigenous peoples to steal the land that rightfully belongs to them And what about their liberty. Why dont you liberals care about indigenous peoples liberty? All that matters to you liberals is profit, and anyone who stops you from making profit is is infringing on your liberty and property. Yeah, fuck your liberal bullshit. Until you liberals give all land back to the indigenous that occupied it first, you have no leg to stand on when it comes to property and liberty rights. I highly recommend you read the books "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" & "The Prehistory of Private Property" by Grant McCall and Karl Widerquist "Forgive me if I'm unsympathetic to those who would violate the rights of others for short-term gains," The only people who care about short term gains are the capitalists. The only people who care about short term gains are those who preach liberty and property rights while profiting off indigenous land violently stolen. The entire conquest of the Americas was all about short term gains and paying off ever growing debt. You dont care about liberty or property rights. You care about profits.
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  13.  @hg2.  "$60 billion dollars worth of copper is a gift to the world, and and these schmoes have no right to stand in the way of it." Wow, weird seeing this copy and pasted PR statement here. Do you have no life? Probably not considering literally no one in life loves or likes you.
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  14. Capitalism is clearly the best socioeconomic system we can do...
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  15.  @Demopans5990  Lol, if we want the money to stay in the community longer maybe the small buisness owners should pay better. A single individual is meaningless, and with today's globalist world, that buisness owner is likely to spend that money on giant corporations anyways or will just hoard it. Small buisness owners are no different than large buisness owners.
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  16.  @Leto2ndAtreides  "But also, investment firms are how people grow their 401Ks for their retirements." Why should people need 401ks for retirement in the first place? "There's also the fact that the correct allocation of capital is important for the economy itself" Important for who exactly? "The modern world is complex, and human emotions never evolved to deal with this stuff... Which is also why humanity has taken over a 100K years to drag itself here" Drag itself where exactly? Can you go into more detail of what you mean by this? "Because human instincts are just not suited to making life better for everyone." Yes they are, you are just looking at human instincts completely removed from nature and instead in a society based purely on greed.
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  17.  @Natty183  "Why don't y'all just read a book? Oh, you probably can't read" Oh wow, ad hominem's, how surprising coming from someone who clearly doesn't understand Rand's "Philosophy" and refuses to engage with anyone in an intellectual manner when they have a different interpretation. Atlas Shrugged is a 1000 page snore fest of some whiny brat who was upset that her families massive wealth was rightfully given back to the people that they originally stole it from. sElFiShNeSs Is GoOd. That's the entire basis of here philosophy, even though humanity never would have survived if people were naturally selfish. Humanities existence alone disproves the idea that selfishness is good. Maybe you could try studying modern anthropology at some point, or MaYbE yOu JuSt CaNt ReAd And this is the biggest problem with Ayn Rand's works, it completely ignores that all wealth is stolen from the backs of the working class and the Indigenous peoples who occupied the land first and then had it violently stolen.
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  18.  @smh9902  "The sad part is that most millioniares in the industrial age were people that made the world a better place." No they are people who raped the planet and did everything they can to keep the working class as poor as possible just so they can be rich and have power over the poor.
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  19.  @hg2.  "$60 billion dollars worth of copper is a gift to the world, and and these schmoes have no right to stand in the way of it." Do you think copy and pasting the same thing makes you look intelligent? Because all of us see right through you. All your doing is repeating PR lines put out by the mining companies.
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  20.  @hg2.  "Ask your average California conservative what they think of the Sierra Club." Care to explain the relevance?
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  21. Trump was also unelectable, and yet he was president for 4 years
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  22.  @barbarabrown2226  Wow, that's like so funny. I see instead of being an adult and telling my I'm wrong, you're just going to show that you're to stupid to be able to do so. Care to attempt to tell me why I'm wrong, or do you just want to continue saying government scare tactics about smoking weed. Plenty if brilliant people do drugs.
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  23. @johnhatchel9681  Are you to stupid to actually read what they said. They said we should ban corporations from owning property. Tell me why we should continue to let multi-billion dollar corporations buy up massive amounts of housing just to rent it out?
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  24.  @senster45  Its true, only governments or corporations can own land. There are literally no other ways of doing it at all.
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  25.  @machone539  No, landlords and banks are forcing me into renting. I would love to buy, but my credit is shit because I have gone though two major economic downturns where I needed to use credit, and then there are far to many employers who think I shouldn't be paid a wage that can allow me to keep up with the cost of living. Private property was literally created to exploit people, I'm sorry you're to stupid to have done any actual research into any of this and instead just repeat the well debunked capitalist talking points If you would actually like to learn something I would be happy to help you on your journey, but you just aren't interested in growth. K bye
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  26. @landlordnation  Better question. What makes housing cost so much right now? If it was purely based on how much it cost to build, do you think housing would be so expensive? Housing doesn't need to be expensive. It shouldn't be used as an investment tool. That's why housing cost so much, every owner expect to gain a huge profit off the sale. You also have to factor in that people renting homes takes them off the real estate market causing artifical scarcity for the real estate market. Past societies have had no problem making sure everyone is housed. It's especially easy when you don't have people expecting profit. There are different ways to do things other than government ownership or private property.
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  27.  @rebeccaspratling2865  Yes, I get that. That's not using them simultaneously.
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  28.  @YouilAushana  Why do we need a rat race in the first place?
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  29.  @inviz1769  No, but you sound like an idiot And there are other ways to do things than private property regimes or state regimes.
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  30. ​ @trestiles1914  Why do people need to rent? Why can we go back to having communal ownership, as the majority of humans throughout the majority of our existence has done.
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  31.  @trestiles1914  Who exactly would be paying a mortgage if all housing is communally owned? That makes literally no sense at all. Like if you don't understand something, why speak so confidently? Why not ask how it would work instead?
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  32.  @trestiles1914  "mainly because it’s not feasible" You literally started off with an assertion. If you believe it isn't feasible, you need to go into detail of why it isn't feasible. You do not get to make the statement that its feasible, thus making it out as if you already understand how communal ownership works, and then turn around and ask how it works. What is it, you know how it works and have deemed it unfeasible, or you have no idea and want to learn more? Since you started off with the assertion, you need to tell me why it isn't feasible first. Keep in mind, that for the majority of humanities existence, between a group everything was communally owned. Saying something that humans have done for the majority of humanities existence isn't feasible is clearly a false statement. If we did it before we can do it again. Why does communally owned projects need funding? If they do need funding, than why wouldn't the community fund it? Why would a privately owned bank be needed? If we make all housing communally owned, why wouldn't we do that with almost everything else? If we made everything else communally owned, what use would money be? If we have no use for money, why would house builders need to be paid in it? What if instead we all participated in society and realized what we do is necessary and that if we all made sure we all had our basic needs met no one would need to acquire money to purchase things. "How about you make a real point instead of living in some dream world. I’m open to listening" How can you sit there and claim you are open to listening when just before you claimed I lived in some dream world. Those two statements are contradictory.
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  33. @kapriece  Weird, wealth accumulation has been happening long before private property was invented
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  34.  @psychozen7169  Why would there be less builders? And why do we need rental property to exist?
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  35.  @TheRealLesterGreen  "It’s scary that 2900 people liked that comment he made." Why is that scary?
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  36.  @stevetaxpayer6664  Why cant apartment complexes be communally owned?
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  37.  @dontdoxmebro  "Google Karl Marx bro" What do you think that will accomplish?
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  38.  @machone539  "dude, why not ban all personal things from clothes to your bodies?" Are you not capable of having dialog without saying incredibly stupid shit?
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  39.  @mwatercress  "Some of the most deplorable living conditions are in government-owned and run housing." Would love to see the evidence for this
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  40.  @eshine2001  " people apparently think that buildings and apartments just fucking build and maintain themselves" No one thinks that. Humans have been building housing long before private property or corporations ever existed.
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  41.  @TheRealLesterGreen  "you are restricting one’s rights to generate wealth." Cant generate wealth without first exploiting people. Why shouldn't exploitation be restricted? Why does your wealth generation come before the good of everyone else?
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  42.  @hauntedbelle  "as someone who lives in government housing I can tell you, that's a horrible idea." So your experience is the same of every person around the world that lives in publicly owned housing?
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  43. ​ @MrCtwo22  "instead of you renting a well kept apartment complex" You do understand there's the category of landlords called "slumlords" right? Just blanket assuming all landlords maintain there property well is just a completely false statement. When a person rents, they are paying the mortgage, property tax, maintenance, and profit. If a person can afford to rent, they can afford to buy and maintain a home. Y'all act as if homes need constant maintenance, when they really fucking don't. And none of this addresses the countless landlords who don't do any maintenance because there state laws state they do not need make a home they rent out liveable.
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  44.  @dentonliving5299  Define freedom
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  45.  @dentonliving5299  "he regulators would abuse the power." Why do you believe private property owners don't also abuse their power?
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  46.  @BlueRidgeBubble  "It will never be feasible due to human nature. Lol" what is human nature exactly?
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  47.  @Bethany_mo  "what you fail to understand is that the land lord is paying a mortgage and taxes on the property plus taxes on the income from said property." All of that is paid for by the renter.
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  48.  @machone539  Correct, abolish capitalism
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  49.  @lt3096  "Excuse me? How do you think you should have the right to tell me what to do with my house." Weird, thats what the Europeans did to the natives when yall stole the natives land in the first place.
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  50.  @vickieclark5931  "That would be smart. Then we would be paying rent for the rest of our lives and never be able to retire." That's how it already is for the majority of people now
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