Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Joe Scott" channel.

Phuck Censorship "Unfettered" capitalism is impossible in the electrical grid age. You all keep confusing free markets with capitalism. Here's a hint: what did Adam Smith think could destroy the mechanism of the free market? Answer: the rentier class. Smith was a good economist. The invisible hand wasn't a fetish, or magic. Read about what that class did in his time, then abstract from that to the present. Anyone who thinks the modern-day global exploitation of far-flung labor markets is possible without a very big government (if not "diplomacy," then 800 bases; if not a carrot, then a great, big stick) is a fool.
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Yes!
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@ivanorozco4274 A classic isolating discourse: "Things aren't going well for you? They're going SUPER for me, tee hee!!!" Compare: "Things aren't going well for you? I'm really sorry to hear that. I remember a few years ago when ____ happened to me. It was hard for a while, then what I did was _____ . It took time, but it helped, and a few people came through for me, . . . things turned around, finally . . . Yeah. Doing pretty good. . . .Want to go out for a coffee sometime?" Yeah, you never hear that. Well, I do, but my friends are diverse.
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@jfangm Right. McDonald's and Walmart and Facebook are "innovations." CERN not so much? I guess it can't be. Governments created it. All of your language is coded; by innovation, you just mean money. But we went through all that.
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@jfangm The quality of life in the West has been going DOWN since the 1980s. The trajectory prior to that was interrupted by these little things called world wars and depressions, starting with the 1890s. You make it sound like progress was more or less consistent. Ha. You can only make that pass to someone whose parents weren't in Europe at the time, and lived the reality. Capitalism also created the Nazi movement, and is stoking nationalism now. Capitalism did best when it had real competition. "Les trente glorieuses," from 1946 through 1975. Competition does improve a lot of things: you reduce it to competition for money(!) What a joke. How laughably limited, good gawd.
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@jfangm Thanks for letting the world know that either (1) "innovation" is an essentially meaningless marketing concept, or (2) you're nuts. P. S. According to CERN's website, "The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has grown to revolutionise communications worldwide."
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@jfangm No one can create anything independently of government. First, the limited liability corporation itself is a creature of the state, and has certain rights as an entity independent of its principals, agents, governing board, and owners. Second, governments confer patents and aggressively protect intellectual property. Third, they provide courts within which to litigate contract disputes. Fourth, they protect global air space and shipping lanes. And fifth, they favor large corporations by allowing them to externalize these and myriad other costs. That's just a start. We could get down in the weeds as well and find several dozen other ways corporations depend directly on government, over and above basic research and the five items already mentioned.
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So who told you to be under 50? Just get a grip and think positive.
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@gnarlin4964 Weird how that happens.
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@TH3M0L3CUL3M4N I think all mainstream American politicians have fascist tendencies. Joe is a lifelong warmonger and toady for financial interests. His nationalism is subtle; he has said things like "poor kids can learn just as well as white kids," again and again; it's too common to be a slip of the tongue. Certain ethnic groups are systematically downgraded, and that is never an issue. It's accepted. Biologism is rampant, and people really believe intelligence is "inborn," and that anyone with money is inherently superior. If you insist on comparing Biden to TRUMP, then yes, he comes across great. But who doesn't?
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@albertjackinson Is that supposed to be a joke?
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@Diggnuts Um, barefoot wasn't rare back then.
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@elijahclaude3413 Western countries, or primarily US/UK? They are generally the worst of the developed countries on every quality of life metric, and have been for a long time. I consider them the least Western, if by "Western" we mean the inheritors of Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. In some ways, Latin America is more culturally Western by that standard than is the US.
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Because government plays no role in the globalization of the labor market, huh? /s
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@maryolee8303 I think I understand now. Owners have no Eros in their lives. Not even sublimated (art, music, poetry, etc.). Your post made that clear.
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@maryolee8303 WHOOSH to top every whoosh I've ever seen. Cool. We have yet to hit bottom.
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@maryolee8303 Ha. Neither I nor anyone with any real talent will be here. Let's see how well you do by your own devices. I can hardly wait.
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@joshanonline Poor people under socialism had endemic drug abuse and 40 or 50 shootings every weekend in their neighborhoods? And were often unable to read and write? Tell us more.
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@jfangm If you think eating healthy is inexpensive, you must not be doing it. I cook everything I eat, no exceptions. I pick up coffee to start the day. I don't make my own juice, when I do have it, which is not daily. That's it. I cannot afford a restaurant. That's why I do all my own cooking. Good food is a fortune.
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@jfangm Well, how does the quality of life just keep declining then? In 1965 or 1970, a couple of friends could get together and decide to get an apartment in any major city, from New York to San Francisco, and afford to split the rent on minimum wage. No college grad had debt, and high school graduates had a better education than many college grads do today. We didn't live under elaborate surveillance, we weren't forced into bankruptcy by medical bills, drug abuse wasn't rampant, most people read a lot more, guns weren't ubiquitous, advertising wasn't sinister, and the phrase "school shooting" referred to exactly ONE incident. And we didn't have a oisive huckster class of con artist millionaires and even more depraved billionaires. Nothing truly great is accomplished by anyone who only cares about money. It is simply not possible to aim for doing the least in order to get the most money in return, "profit maximization," so called, and accomplish exceptional things. Did money come first for Einstein, Picasso, James Baldwin, or Jonas Salk? Does money come first for a pediatric neurosurgeon? A concert pianist? Do you really think that's what motivates great artists and scientists? Or even people with a rich family life? (Money hoarding? How pathetic.) All four of those mentioned, by the way, saw themselves as socialists to one degree or another. That's because their entire lives didn't consist of nothing but an insatiable appetite.
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@antikommunistischaktion If the dollar ceases to be the global reserve currency, the house of cards will fall SO fast and this whole discussion will be revealed for the puerile mess that it is. How many more 2008-style implosions do you think can be sustained? We might have the bad luck of finding out.
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@antikommunistischaktion No one is stopping YOU from thinking for yourself. Once you do, you don't feel like going back.
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@jfangm Okay honey.
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@jfangm Limited liability means the businessmen cannot be sued in their individual capacity for acts performed in furtherance of the proper business of the corporation. Only GOVERNMENT can confer that limitation of liability. It is what prevented individuals from suing TONY HAYWARD for the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill. Otherwise, they could have. DUH. P. S. Ever heard of Section 230 immunity? LOL
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@jfangm WWW is not the Internet. And you just said the government invented the Internet. I'm on to math problems, and just got a hard one right, don't bother me further. Good night.
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@jfangm With EACH client? Well, that would require quite a legal department, for each business, big or small. And the contract is enforced, HOW? Where? A contract each time? What if the victims of an oil spill, dangerous chemical release, etc., claim they were not advised they were contracting away their right to hold those responsible for quasi-criminal acts or reckless acts to account? The contract didn't envision that. (What happened to "personal responsibility??" Ha ha ha ha . . . ) You never thought anything through. Back to math videos. I promised myself I wouldn't take the sour bait.
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@jfangm No it isn't. The most cursory research will explain it to you. One is infrastructure, the other is every aspect of content. It's like saying operating systems are applications, only worse. I linked to CERN, it was removed. I guess you can't find it yourself. And the Internet was developed by government and universities, which are nonprofits.
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$14.8 million per year is $1689 per hour -- for every hour of every day of the year, waking, sleeping, holidays, . . . Over $40,500 dollars a day in fact. Every day. Wow these people must work hard . . . /s
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Those 800 bases aren't for nothing.
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Words do exist.
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@subrosian1234 Languages would not exist without people. It is not clear that the same is true of mathematics.
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In a few small experiments, a small, stable UBI did increase employment. People had the means to go on interviews, and got more ideas about what they could do with more money.
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That's all anyone ever talks about, are you kidding?
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Inching closer to Star Trek, or BLADE RUNNER? (Director's cut)
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