Comments by "" (@BothHands1) on "You Won’t Make Money From Buying Art, But Rich People Can — And Do | Complexify" video.
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Chris Klugh
i'd prefer a utilitarian, egalitarian society, rather than this dog-eat-dog bs you men have set up over the past few millennia. and i'll continue to fight and vote for my beliefs. if i believe what they're doing to be wrong, how could i do it myself?
besides that, you need to be a billionaire to take full advantage of the majority of these loopholes anyway. maybe there are a few you can use as an average citizen to save 100$ or something, but these billionaires are collectively stealing trillions of dollars that should have gone to tax, to fix worn out roads, give our children better education, train police officers better, ensure we have clean air and water, etc.
fixing roads not only helps us, when we get a flat tire from a pot hole and have to throw 300$ down to get it replaced, but it also makes trucking more efficient, thereby increasing economic efficiency. but they don't even care about their own businessess, even if their company could make 2 billion dollars in the next 10 years due to improved efficiency, they'd rather steal the 1 billion now and put it in their own pockets, making out entire economic system less efficient and more of a plutocracy.
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bingoberra18
doesn't matter, every one pays their fair share based on their means. if you're born into a family who gives you 100 million dollars when you turn 18 to make investments, you didn't start at the same level as someone who was born into an area where the CIA literally admitted to spreading crack cocaine through the neighborhoods to keep the poor people poor. everyone pays their fair share based on their circumstances.
we just passed juneteenth, where a massively prosperous black wallstreet was set alight, not just from rioting people on the ground, but firebombs were dropped from the sky. people with a lot of money, more often than not, got there because of extremely unfair circumstances. the least they could do is pay their fair share. they have more money than we could ever dream of. bezos makes like 200,000$ a minute or something insane. he can spare a percent for taxes while still being the richest person in the world. but instead, through loopholes, he instead gets paid by the irs from our tax money, instead of paying taxes. how is that fair? you really need some more perspective, and a lot more research.
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Chris Klugh
sure, but the elite specifically train their children to adopt the same sociopathic views as they have, from birth. if i have a sociopath as a child, they are likely to spend a lot of time in treatment, get medication, and find a decent job that suits their interests. being an accountant or something won't really allow them to slip off the trail. even if left to their own devices, they'll never become part of the elite, because the elite have their own sociopathic kids to take over their fortunes for them.
so the only choice we have is to vote for a person like bernie, who doesn't take a penny from corporatist interests, and vote for him in such high numbers that even their gerrymandering and fraud can't let them steal the election. only then can we get rid of citizens united, and give control of the government back to the people instead of multinational megacorporations. but in order to convert enough people for a landslide victory of that magnitude, we have to scream from the rooftops. also, we need to wait for the boomers who rely on old media to fade out of existence.
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Edward Colindres
asceticism is the path to enlightenment. absolute power corrupts absolutely, and so does money. no one needs these arbitrary capitalist things. some rock dug out from a dead volcano, worth as much as most humans make in a lifetime. it's all arbitrary. what good does that shiny rock really do for you? extravagant living is obscene. whether you're buddhist, christian, or any other religion. "it's easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to make it to heaven."
i don't believe in religion, but i do feel like many religions still have some relatively relatable allegories for today's world.
you all are guy, so i suppose you believe in the violent dog-eat-dog world, as opposed to utilitarianism or egalitarianism. you want stuff, meaningless as it may be, that shiny rock shows other people you're better than them and that makes you feel good. all those attachments to this world, hedonism and viciousness. empathy doesn't have a place in your world view. humans were once communal creatures. but this system has destroyed that to single us out, all alone, everyone on their own against everyone else on their own. no community. no empathy. no humanity.
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Chris Klugh who says i'm even going to have children, and if i do, who says they will be boys. with IVF you can choose, as controversial as that is. in a household with two mothers, i don't know if we're equipped to raise a boy. but we sure as hell can raise the best girl to ever grace this planet.
genes of people who have enough empathy to try to reduce their individual impact on the world is not a negative thing in any way. even if she meets someone at a psystrance festi, off her head on a bunch of tabs, i know that the upbringing we both intend on giving will help our child make good choicee.
i'm rambling, but i guess that's because you didn't really have an actual point, so i had to fill in the rest with alcohol induced regurgitation of my life experience and views on the world all mixed together into a slurry of incomprehensible word vomit. but honestly, word vomit is the appropriate response to your comment. now if you'll excuse me, i have to hop in the shower cuse my GF is getting me in an hour. until probably Tuesday. byeee!! <333
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