Comments by "antonyjh1234" (@antonyjh1234) on "The Institute of Art and Ideas" channel.

  1. How many things that you consume do you produce yourself?
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  2. How much gold, or bank debt these days, one holds is not a definition of wealth, 250 years ago most people were growing their own food on land they barely had to work on to survive, today that is a luxury people dream about, also, the world had 770 million people on it in 1760, today there are 719 million who live on less than 2.15 a day, has poverty really been affected by growth or has growth caused it? edit : it wasn't the growth mentality, it was fossil fules, 1 unit of energy and we get 30 units out means a lot of growth is possible.
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  3. I don't know we conflate the dumbest people voting the same with the monetary system of debt. All oligarchs excepts African are in a world of declining growth and ALL money being debt based, without the growth of the last 80 years, well 10% of it moving forward the next 80 is going to mean a different paradigm that we live under. The only way money is created now, is debt. if govts are going the wrong way for society and they have to input central bank debt as the public aren't or the money supply drops. The money supply dropping and people not understanding all money is based on debt and all debt must retrun to zero, is a problem for all of us, especially as don't understand it and then want to blame democracy or capitalism, this is incorrect, any ism in a debt based, free market system would have the same issues.
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  4. Females are cold blooded, manipulative and money hungry, and will go further to get it than men. Maybe the men are in jail because of a woman and her influence, to what point do females take responsibility for how their sons are?
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  5. The thing about evil is they all think they are doing right at the time. All of these people most probably drove to get to this talk, using oil other people have been killed over, so define "evil"
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  6. Political Nihilism, would that be a better descriptor? You could easily have an unstructured society, insofar food. shelter and medical care were taken care of, and people the freedom to be part of anything else as long as they had the freedom to leave it as well. Twenty percent of the world's energy use is electricity, people could literally stand on their heads, staying home from jobs that only turn over a higher amount of emissions, get supplied what they need to live, serve time in those three industries, food, shelter or medical like military service for a few years and we could cut the speed of global warming by half, at least, within an election term. Anarchists are allowed to have goals and the issue is we have kept systems of money and power going for ten thousand years, at the very least, paid for with people's lives. The anarchist has structure within the system in the tearing down, can't burn the old because there is nothing new, but the anarchist might be better called a political nihilist, that actually achieves the goal's but if basics were met for every individual on the planet, an equal share, that would be structured and anarchic, right?
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  7. I think there has to be a plan past : affordable" as all money is debt based, as soon as we earn it then it loses value because of the interest rate, until eventually it returns to zero as all debt has too. We could take government spending out of the system, currently 20ish% from memory then all values crash, but it will be relative, overall with job losses and less money in the system means what 20% or people unemployed? Free food, shelter and medical, for all is the low hanging fruit, the least of our emissions and what the world needs, would raise general wellbeing. This whole get a job to be able to get bank debt to be able to survive, has to change to something better than trying to fix it, imo.
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  8. Everything you described was being single minded. We live in a service economy, meaning other people service you and you make very little of what you consume. To support more people or supply more then the reward is greater, to stop that would mean the stopping of the free market and competition.
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