Comments by "DeoMachina" (@DeoMachina) on "Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie" video.

That's super weird because those things have been increasing under capitalism
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@georgekromidas5097 I mean, there seems to be a causitive link between capitalism and genocide. Take the Irish famine for example, where all of their food was sold to other countries because they could pay more. Or more recently, the genocide of the Yemeni people, which is largely made possible because capitalist nations want to make money from selling arms to countries that have a habit of killing people. As for starvation, you need only look at the usage of food banks in the richest nations. People can't afford to buy food at an increasing rate, and malnourishment among children is reaching levels not seen in a very long time. This is, of course, a necessary function of capitalism.
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@georgekromidas5097 So you're telling me that a steady increase of living costs coupled with a totally static wage growth doesn't make people poorer? Do I need a source to explain why that's wrong? Poverty is increasing in countries such as the UK and the USA, both examples of right-wing capitalist nations. This is despite the fact that both countries are getting richer all the time. This of course, is by design. Each company is incentivised by profit maximisation above all else, and taking a greater share of the profit is the most efficent way to do this. So capitalism produces wildly more efficient systems that are much more profitable, but it's all pointless as 1% of the population benefit from these advances. When the company doubles its profits, the workers at the bottom don't get double wages. They get paid the same. There is also the problem that a class of super-rich people have enough money to simply purchase the laws and regulations they prefer, or make politicians do certain things. Take for example wars being started for the sake of defence company profits. There's also the fact that the planet is about to experience severe ecological damage through global warming, this is 100% due to capitalism. Tens of millions of people are going to die because oil companies wanted the sea levels to rise. That's not genocide?
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@stevied3400 -Consumption is very different from consumerism. -Yes, actually. Countries not under the yoke of oil companies are implementing new technologies that are less harmful to the environment. You'll notice how capitalist nations resisted this change with scare stories about the new technology? -Probably for the same reason capitalist countries keep bombing/destabalising/embargoing them.
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@stevied3400 Um, dude? The President of the USA spent years trying to stop windfarm construction. Because he thought it would interfere with his businesses. Oil companies spend decades, literal decades, trying to muddy the water and lying about global warming, to make it seem like we had no reason to invest in greener technology. Let's not forget, fossil fuel corporations got big subsidies that made it impossible for competition to assert itself. So like, pretty sure capitalist nations are to blame for this. Don't even pretend that human rights violations are a factor in this. What did Cuba do exactly? If the answer was anything less than "orchestrate a complete genocide of a neighbouring country", you can stop talking now. Because countries which ARE doing just that don't get embargoed. They get multi-billion dollar contracts. Again, capitalism.
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@stevied3400 This is false.
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@stevied3400 Pointing out that capitalism leads to capitalists making their own lives and businesses easier by appropriating governmental apparatus is not an endorsement of capitalism, it's a criticism.
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@stevied3400 Yeah the capitalists, judging by their constant sponsoring of big government. They'll lie and say otherwise, but what they really mean is that they don't want anything that costs tax money, and they don't personally want to be regulated. They're totally fine for those things happening to other people though. For an example, take any fascist rise and look into which big names gave support. You'll see some rich ones.
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@stevied3400 It's not exclusive to capitalists? Find me some socialists who want to be billionaires lmao The left-wing all believe that we don't need and should not have billionaires.
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@stevied3400 Just because Soros gives money away and just because nazis hate him, doesn't make him left-wing. I could ask you the same thing, why does the right wing think they get to decide how low minimum wage should go? The difference between our questions is that billionaires aren't dying from not getting paid enough.
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