Comments by "Average Alien" (@AverageAlien) on "Public vs Private | The Historic Definitions of Socialism & Capitalism" video.
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@CallanElliott
In a monarchy, you have a government that is privately owned by one person. If the economy is bad, then this will personally affect the monarch and his heirs. The Monarch will want the best outcome for himself and his heirs. This increases the chances that they will make good decisions for the long term, and they will avoid short term gains like increased taxation, because that destroys the economy long term, and may cause a rebellion. Revolts/ peasant rebellions are also much more likely to happen in a monarchy if rights are infringed, as all fingers can be pointed to one person, the monarch.
Lets contrast this with a democracy. In a democracy, there are no long term private owners of the state. Instead, we have caretakers that temporarily are in power and will therefore try to increase their short term gains as much as possible due to their short term rule, this will damage the economy long term but they have no reason to care. They will spend money without care because it is not their money, they will infringe rights, because a rebellion is not likely, as most people have been brainwashed into believing that they will benefit from a democracy. People don't protest higher taxes or regulations, because it may one day benefit them if they obtain a position of power within the state.
The result? Democracies will always end up growing the size of the government, increasing its power over the individual, and it will simultaneously silence the NPC population by tricking peasants into thinking that they will somehow benefit in the future.
A monarchy however, is self regulating, a king cannot impose too many restrictions, laws, or high taxes, without destroying his own wealth, and potentially even getting himself killed and his heirs exiled. A monarchy is stable, and has been proven to work for thousands and thousands of years, meanwhile democracies show the signs of imminent collapse in less than a century of existence.
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@nintendobinks792 lobbyists and corporations charging highly is not capitalism nor is it private. The US doesn't have a private healthcare system. It has a healthcare system which has been monopolised by PUBLIC corporations.
Just like the UK government monopolised healthcare themselves.
A true capitalist society would have extremely high healthcare quality at the lowest possible costs, with the highest amount of choice and variety. Small hospitals or even a doctors household, all competing with eachother and earning their money properly. Prices would be fair.
Community mobs are socialist. You don't get this thing do you? Mafia isn't private. Mafia is a mini state. Unless it has one leader and no other ranks that is. The police are a community mob, which get their wages from our stolen tax payer money.
The ONLY reason anarchy is stupid, is because gangs would take over and form new states.
So a small state is definitely needed. This state can be responsible for roads and some industry, but mostly for the defence sector. Massive defence sector should be the states main priority.
Optimal society would be 90% private sector, 10% public. Sub 15% income tax for everyone, equally, most of it voluntary, but no big sentences if it's not paid. Minor sentencing/ fines only for crimes like "assault", or fraud, or theft. Public executions for major crimes that I won't list. That will act as a good deterrent and save precious tax payer dollars.
All drugs should be legal, all weapons legal, and no speed limits on roads. No subsidised corporations, no monopolies, no social classes in theory, and all fossil fuel plants banned and replaced with nuclear. This would be your capitalist utopia right here. Or as close to utopia as one can hope for.
Currently however, the US is about 40% socialist.
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@CallanElliott And yet a monarchy is a privately owned government. The king owns all of its wealth privately. He does not have to share it with anyone, he is the sole beneficiary, him and his family, that is the very definition of private. All the profit is his. He does not have to give up his rule either.
I never said monarchy was perfect, but it's magnitudes better than any democracy. Even at its worse, monarchy prevents large scale wars, and saves lives. In a democracy, soldiers are cheap meat shields. The Hapsburgs inbreeding only affected them and them alone. It had no negative impacts on the general population. Smaller decentralised rulers and aristocrats controlling their own little zones is far better than one big bloated government.
As I have demonstrated, a monarchy is a privately owned government. The sole beneficiary is the king and his family, and whoever he chooses to share that wealth with. That wealth is not automatically distributed like it is in a democracy. If a king chooses to waste money on pointless wars or statues too often then he is only wasting his own money, as opposed to wasting public funds.
A monarchy is precisely a private individual who rules alone. He chooses to employ others no differently than a private business owner would choose his employees. The only distinction between a monarchy and a private business is that the king acquires wealth via taxation instead of producing anything.
Monarchies are far more self regulating than a democracy. Once again, the only way this is a good system is when it's contrasted with its alternative, democracy. Democracy is an inferior system for all the reasons I have already named, and we see this happening in real time, with governments world wide getting larger and larger, more and more bloated, taxation constantly rising, regulations and human rights infringements rising uncontrollably as well, and no significant protests from the peasant population, as everyone is deluded into thinking that a democracy will benefit them.
There are no such delusions in a monarchy. You can see that all your wealth goes to the king. So if the king starts to push his luck, rebellion is imminent.
Monarchies had plenty of rights. Peasants had rights. Serfs had rights. Everyone had rights. If a Lord broke the law his serf could take him to court. A Lord could be in debt to his serf.
Once again this isn't about a monarchy being a perfect system, just the best alternative form of government when compared and contrasted with a democracy. If you say the peasants were too tired to rebel, I'd counter that and say that they had far more free time than we do today, and since there were no guns back then, no tanks, no fighter jets, no cameras, no satellite tracking, it was far, far easier to revolt.
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@nintendobinks792 Clearly you didn't watch/ understand any of the video. The first hour is literally dedicated to proving that public sector and socialism are the same thing, using citations and sources and plenty of definitions. You literally have no excuse to be this ignorant.
Once again, nobody said anything about private individuals investing in a business. We're talking about the state using stolen tax payer money to invest in these businesses, which means that they have nothing to lose. They inflate useless undeserving, unprofitable crap using stolen money, and run away when it inevitably comes tumbling down.
It's not black and white. It's a spectrum. The political compass is a lie, anyways. It's a political line. You can be a centrist, or slightly socialist, or slightly capitalist. I know you really want to live in a nice little fantasy land where everyone is unique and special and has their own little co-ordinates on an imaginary political graph, but that's all been proven false.
You can't debunk a single fact in this video. Not one.
The rest of my post was a flawless vision of a true utopia. Once again, you will not be able to find a single flaw in it. Not one. Everything I said is 100% justifiable and easily defended with simple logic and facts.
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