Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Rishi Sunak's taxes – the REAL story" video.

  1. It's a good start, but we the people have to change too. Voltaire said "People will cease to commit atrocities only when they cease to believe absurdities." And over nearly the last 5 decades we have committed several atrocities on ourselves and others, because our priorities - individually and collectively - are misplaced. All priorities bring problems, but if you end up resenting dealing with those problems your priorities bought with them, that's a sign you've got the wrong priorities. And resentment driving our politics now. And that resentment leads us to cling to blame, which changes nothing, instead of being accountable. Not only should our politicians be accountable to us, but we need to be accountable for how we contributed to our issues. We're more divided and isolated from each other and the world around us because we haven't been honest with ourselves. Yes the plutocrats and their bought politicians deceived us, but we wanted to be deceived. We wanted not to think about the consequences of policies executed by politicians we voted for that were not only counter-productive, but corrosive, harmful, and pointlessly cruel. People stood by as different groups wet made scapegoat of the week, not realising that was a beast that would eventually consume them. The poor, the sick, and the disabled, and the elderly were thrown under the bus. Then the working class, and now the middle class are now going under, all because plutocrats want more assets, and their banks and corporations they own want more profits. And they resent anyone who stands in their way of those goals. Time to be honest with ourselves, or nothing can get better. Time to accept that the plutocrats see everyone but themselves as a means to an end. And if we keep on pretending that isn't true, things will only get worse. If we want to keep the pros of capitalism, we have to take responsibility for its cons, and it's conmen that come with it. They depend on Society being organised and well-run enough to clean up after the messes they leave as they make their wealth. Well, There's a price for that and that is taxation, entailing redistribution of wealth when capitalism and its markets fail to adequately distribute assets, services, and commodities that are needed by everyone. We need to stop running our economies as if they were branches of Red Lobster, where the plutocrats consume numerous portions of fare, and leave little for the needs of those making it possible for them to eat as much as they can.
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  2. Voltaire said "People will cease to commit atrocities only when they cease to believe absurdities." He didn't say that not only would they commit atrocities on others, but on themselves too. And modern societies have been committing atrocities of one type or another, because of our cultural psychology. No-one is immune from our evolutionary biology. 'Monkey see, monkey do' is a very human tendency for that reason. And bandits will exploit that tendency by manufacturing consent for the latest iteration of atrocity they want others to consent to. Why? As Einstein said: "Thinking is hard. That's why people judge." And people will do the most absurd things to avoid being judged, and believing in the dream of constant social mobility by merit is one of them. Life isn't like that. Only if "your daddy's rich and your momma's good looking' do you have any real chance of that being the case. For everyone else, not even talent is determinative of success. So, we should cling too tightly to our beliefs about success, as there are no guarantees.
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  3. Gary, the crypto bots have discovered your channel. If you can block them, please do.
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