Comments by "" (@pierreollivier1) on "Lex Clips"
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the best technique I know to learn things fast is to talk a lot about it, and role play you being a teacher in that domain, for example when i used to read a lot about economics, and listen to a lot of podcast i would roleplay in my head being interviewed or giving a lecture on that subject. And there's a lot of benefit to it :
1- The first one is that it improve your conscious understanding of the subject, when you learn about something it's almost like you have learned nothing and everything, and when roleplaying lecturing about a subject when speaking you'll have that unconscious understanding that will give you the intuition to correct yourself, or to explain yourself better and instead of crystalizing the surface level understanding you'll really get the deep understanding of the subject.
2- Second is that it will tremendously improve your ability to communicate with other, because when you teach (even when you are just pretending) you'll find ways to illustrate your ideas in such a way that it would be understandable for 12yo, and that's true understanding, if you can explain something complex to a 12yo and he get it.
3- Finally it will improve your ability to think and more often than not you'll end up connecting dots between different knowledge and you'll come up with your own ideas, that come only from you, this will give you very nuanced and interesting opinions, and most people will really appreciate and value such ability to think.
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@surgeon9039 No they are not, In fact they are some of the most well connected in certain parts of the world, sure they can't rival with the Americans, but in the middle east, even the CIA relied on the DGSE for a lot of operations, same thing for Africa. You never hear about them, which is a sign they are doing their jobs well. They also have very singular capabilities, for example unlike many who relies on SF for cover operations. The DGSE has it's own in house Special Forces, that only belong to them and them only, the training is very rigorous, more than 3 year, and they only recruit from the most elite special forces group in France. They are also very strong in the economic intelligence business. Obviously any agency out there French included is less capable than the US/Russian/Chinese, but they are far from soggy.
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I think this isn't an expression of a lack of education, most people listening to Lex's podcast, have at least some background that allows them to judge. The truth is that people aren't interested in communism. Mainly because we've seen what communism means (and I know right know you are probably thinking that everything called communism so far hasn't been "real" communism), and although theoretically communism is definitely superior on some aspects, it will never be for the simple reason that it doesn't take into account Human nature, the truth is most people don't want to have the same as their neighbors, they don't necessarily want to be dependent on others/state/whoever is giving them their share of the production. Humans are vile creature, they want power, they want to dominate, they want to be better than others. Unfortunately that's fundamentally incompatible with Communism, every attempt will result in the same problematics, overtime as more and more people will be dispossessed arbitrarily by those who have nothing until nobody has anything, than peoples in charge of said dispossession will start to do more and more to keep their power even if that means killing every of their "brothers". Communist are wasting their time on things that aren't possible instead of contributing for things that could actually happens and be beneficial.
Now I'm not saying capitalism is perfect because it's not but at least this system acknowledge the fundamental of the human nature, and channels it to the profit of the group. Human selfishness ? no problem in capitalism you are free to do whatever you want with your money, but to get money you either need to work for someone higher up in the hierarchy (aka cooperation), or to create your own business but even then you'd still have to find costumers willing to cooperate with you to buy your product. Human needs for Power and dominance ? well in capitalism outside of the problematic nepotism (which would exist in communism) the only way to achieve power and dominance is still by cooperating with others, you have to be talented, and approved by your peers to become powerful therefore it is still a matter of cooperation.
Anyway TL;DR capitalism is imperfect but works ok because at least it takes into account the truth about human nature, whereas communism will always fail because it fails to recognize human nature.
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@jorgec55 I'm not describing my POV of human nature, there is actually a field of science that is exclusively focusing on understanding human nature, called psychology , and we shape our societies always on the same principles from the time we were large tribes to this day we still behave the same, we all have the same aspiration, and the name we put on our institutions, the language we use, or the flag we defend might have changed throughout the centuries, but we've stayed the exact same, and for the longest time we actually evolved in an environment very similar to communism, yet they were always hierarchy, with some successful individual and some less successful, and that has nothing to do with the means of production or who they belong to. Just human nature some people are ambitious and hard working, other don't find as much interest in working this much and are happy to have more free time and less responsibility to focus on other aspects of their life. Communism will never happen because like I said it romanticize human nature by thinking that communism is actually what everyone want, but that has never been true and never will be. Simply because we aren't programmed to have those inspiration, and actually this is true for every single living creature in the universe it's not even exclusive to humans, that's just how life got where it is in the first place.
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@plum_colored_dahlia yeah exactly when I say that humans are greedy and selfish it's not a critique, it's absolutely normal to better yourself, and primary care for yourself and those who happen to be close to you, I'm not saying that humans are bad by nature, but that the expression of said nature in a communist context just can't work.
When I say that some humans want's more money, power and success it's not that they want more to simply have more, they want more usually to provide for their family, friends, or to support the cause they cherish.
Either way even if you don't consider all the bad apples among people, who actually want to take advantage of others, by lying, and stealing for their own profit you would still end up in a system where people would treat their "own" differently which is actually the true issue of capitalism as well.
People don't have issue with the principle of the accumulation of wealth in itself or whatever because that can be tackle within capitalism it self with redistribution policy through taxes.
No what people (and rightfully) despise the most is that the rules don't apply to everyone in the same way, small to medium companies pay full taxes while giants like Amazon, Apple etc are paying pocket money.
poor and middle class individuals pay everything full price while really rich people have their money where it can't be taxed.
average people are going to jail for meaningless offense while real gangster can easily donate for the campaign of a judge, a senator, or whatever and get away with real crimes.
Unfortunately this issue is not related to capitalism it self rather than our human nature. Which is why changing economic paradigm will never happen or work.
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