Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "The cult many are in but don’t realize" video.

@Oldkekistani That's nice! Now what happens when you run into someone who doesn't share your beliefs? Because free association implies forced association and voluntary exchange also implies some exchanges are involuntary. See you wouldn't need to put in the modifier if you just believed in association and exchange. That's why things are said to be at least dialectical having two sides. Lets say you sitting on a bench and someone comes by and sits next to you. Is that not free association? but was it a voluntary exchange? Does it now make a difference who owns the bench? You the other person or an unknown third party? What if you get up and leave who's bench is it then? In fact the benches location and your relationship to the other person play a big role in a simple act of sitting on a bench in whether it is considered socially acceptable for the person to sit next to you on the bench in the first place.
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@shayne881 First because no one has really been able prove it's not possible. I can tell you that John Galt's free energy machine is impossible according to the current knowledge but does what does that say about the rest of the thinkers ideas or will some prove the first and second laws of thermodynamics wrong?? They talk about it being a failure but then when they have to come up with a reason why well they don't really come up with a valid one because they are often doing the same things only in a different manner. So they talk about the failure of central planning until even their scholars realize they are doing the same thing with central bank controls on all these so called independent banks. Or the talk about over regulation until someone asks about how which you prevent insurance fraud without government or some kind of oversight on private insurance companies. They talk about censorship by state media being bad until they start doing it themselves. They talked about victory in the cold war and now they are talking about having a new cold war against China and Russia. If the rich western capitalist nations had not gone to war in 1914 the would not have had the Soviet Union and 70 years of communism as one of the results. The capitalist of all nations have to deal with trade unions, Cuba and communists. So they still face class struggle and because they are in the worst economic crisis since the great depression along with wars raging between Ukraine and Russia and between the Jews and Islamic terrorism its not "a peaceful" capitalist world.
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@shayne881 Because the capitalism of the pre World War One is gone. The ability of the Imperialist Investors Capitalist Empires to make war on the small nations is much more limited. Industrial workers in the advanced capitalist countries in the west belong to trade unions. The Era of Fascism that followed the Russian Revolution was defeated. The class struggle keeps breaking out. Modrn industry only creates more workers on a world wide basis while the numbers of all other class keeps going down in proportion.
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@ad3198 That's not true since the workers are never allowed to see the accounting books. Even Republican Senator Ron Paul complains about never being able to audit the Federal Reserve that the banking industry circles the wagons to prevent that from happening. The workings of capitalist exploitation have to be kept secret from the population to prevent the questioning of all the waste and privilege going to those at the top. You obviously don't understand how money is created by the banks with capitalism. Because the only way for capitalist to justify their profits you have to believe value is disconnected from labor and labor time. That's tiks problem in the end they can't explain how it can be disconnected. That's why they need to mystify the source of the profit. Anything to convince you that money just falls from the sky in a just manor in their favor.
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@curiousmind111 That is exactly why the capitalist farm those things out with government, nonprofit's and foundations to limit expenses and maximize profits to shift cost to the working class, farmers and small businessmen. Investments that can't produce quick profits need to by shouldered by the investor and borrower of last result the US Gov't. This way the losses can be socialised and the profits privatised. When the big company and financial system ends up a reversal of value caused by using profits to bid up fictitious values in contracts way over value then a financial crisis inevitable occurs. They all come from the problem of trying to pay for the past with present. Prices for industrial production would inevitable decline as technology cuts labor time without inflating the money supply.
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