Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dr. Jordan Peterson | Is Neo-Marxism on the rise? | #CLIP" video.

  1.  @pauldi7268  : Everything YOU see as runaway capitalism is actually the result of government intrusion, which removes all the incentives to behave properly, and cements robber barons on top. The free market does a much better job of responding to and serving the values of its customers, through competition than government regulators coming in and trying to solve problems, by force, under advisement from robber barons. You fight the wrong thing. You really should read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" and think about the proper role and scope of government. The problems you see in our system are invariably due to politicians weaponizing the outrage of people like you to take a little more power and cause more problems, which they always say are "unintended," but any fool could see coming a mile away. Free markets have always imposed higher standards than government bureaucrats. By the time there's enough public outrage to demand government do something, the markets are already responding. Moral behavior and reputation are potent forces in marketing. Government sets arbitrary standards and the net effect is to favor the worse companies over the better companies. Free markets created the rising tide that created the leisure and extra resources to actually seek higher values in the first place. It wasn't government. Government always follows society, garnering votes and virtue by wrong-headed programs that cause more long-term problems that idiots like insist must be solve by yet MORE government action. You want sustainable living? Get government the hell out of it. If it's a value you demand, then there will be a free American just dying to provide that value. Your antipathy towards capitalism denotes an almost religious faith in politicians and bureaucrats to do what good people like you and I can do much better. Do you honestly think Nancy Pelosi knows or cares about root problems, or do you think she (or Trump) are more interested in exploiting those problems to secure their positions of power and privilege? Me, personally, I'm more inclined to think Trump is in it for the right reasons. He was a billionaire before deciding to run. Careerist politicians WANT the system we have. They made millions off the taxpayer tit.
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  2. Things might be looking up. COVID has REALLY shaken-up the education establishment. In a good way. Embracing online education, establishment institutions opened up the competition to a multitude of vendors for millions of parents who actively shop it.
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  3. I'm not so sure about that. I think technology is changing so rapidly, the people are getting way more powerful, as a matter of functional capabilities. We'll see. It's always a race between advancements and unintended side-effects. But the more capable people are, the quicker they can shift their behavior patterns, with the means to do so. It's a foregone conclusion that not everybody keeps up, but if enough do, then the rising tide lifts all boats. From underneath. Not from on top.
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