Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "Tom Nicholas" channel.

@FaithfulMC do you want some unhinged employee at a big pharma biolab making a bioweapon that targets the bloodlines of people on his shit list?
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It is not that capitalism is inherently corrupt. The fundamental issue is that our monetary system is corrupt. One of the central tenets of communism is the centralization of credit and monetary authority in a central bank; Marx even said that capitalism sowed seeds of self-destruction, and his rationale was the creation of circulating credit by the wealthiest elites, allowing them to concentrate ever more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else. In a sound monetary system without Cantillon effects, this would not be as great an issue because credit would be limited in supply to the actual commodity capital stock and thus have to be expended to generate a return, so only capital allocators who make good decisions would increase their levels of capital. In the current system, whoever borrows the most and fails the hardest gets bailed out the most with freshly issued credit, diluting the capital stock and devaluing the labor and savings of workers, and so the lack of destruction of capital-destroyers destroys the system of capitalism as a whole.
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@davidalmeida2991 capitalism would be self-correcting if 1) we had a sound monetary system that did not benefit some at the expense of others and 2) all transactors were conscientious individuals. The problems faced by modern economies are corruption stemming from the monetary system and psychopathy. If we tell government to regulate the economy, we are empowering further corruption and psychopathy rather than alleviating those problems.
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@RomanHistoryFan476AD My point is that Marx advocated for further centralization of the monetary system as has been happening here for the past century. He was correct with his observations of the problems with banking based upon circulating credit in lieu of commodity credit, but his solution was to make it even worse as our leaders have done. My comment is a critique of those who follow his path.
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@michaelneufeld4515 get everyone you can to take the orange pill, I suppose. I don't see any viable solution other than Bitcoin. In the near-medium term, it will likely hedge against further fiat debasement and hopefully balance out the chaos; in the long term, it should separate money and state, which will fix these issues by restricting the scope of government. For America specifically, I recommend signing the Convention of States petition for your state so we can get the federal government under control, and support local political leaders who favor Austrian economics and free market capitalism; those are efforts of unknown term.
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I do not believe that the distinction between socialism and totalitarianism is lost on Peterson. In fact, Peterson's issues are not with socialism but with Marxism, which is an inherently violent, deceitful, and oppressive ideology. Peterson has explicitly said that he is unsure where the correct economic balance is on the collectivist-individualist scale, but he asserts that both extremes are wrong.
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Peterson's definition of Western culture is not specifically about Christianity. That is a remarkably and disappointingly shallow perspective. Western culture has a common thread of dualist philosophy that stretches back to the ancient Mediterranean and proto Indo European civilizations: specifically, each individual human has the capacity for transcendental experience that bridges the gap between material (body) and spirit (mind). The concept of "as above, so below" might not be immediately recognizable to modern Westerners, but the concept has been conserved for thousands of years: there is a fundamental connectedness between the entire physical universe and the individual conscious experience, and conscientiousness emerges from awareness of this transcendent connectedness. Christianity is failing today due to its inadequate and vague explication of this fundamentally Western description of this individual human experience of duality. So when you hear Peterson use the term "God", it is simply the shortest and most recognizable term he can use to allude to that transcendental dualism.
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