Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Dad Saves America" channel.

  1. Who told you this? 😂😂😂
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  2. Goethe said it, in Faust.
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  3.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  A life of leisure? He did nothing but work.
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  4.  @duaneslack8516  Not to mention explaining how the free market devolves into monopoly capital due to forces that are nearly insurmountable. I say give me Adam Smith any day, if you can. We'd have no worries about wholesome, fresh food that's inexpensive, for one thing. Too bad that's over. 😢
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  5. I agree about the COVID connection. I never heard anyone else say it.
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  6. @martindenham2207  Capitalism is dominated by envy, resentment and fear -- and grave mistrust of the motives of others. If you want to see real hostility erupt, try telling a boss you have enough money. I've actually done this in interviews when I was sure I didn't want the job. You would not believe the instant anger. Once, freelancing, a boss owed me money. I knew I'd take no further jobs from him, so I said, "It's not about the money," the implication being a principle was at stake. Wow, did HE get mad!! This happened in the US, but coincidentally on Bastille Day! 😂😂😂
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  7. ​ @C_R_O_M________ He died relatively young, even by the standards of his time.
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  8. Heather, starting at about 5:40 and lasting for about 8 or 9 minutes, is BRILLIANT. Everything, in under nine minutes. Perfect.
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  9.  @MykeLewisMusic  He's not my hero. You remind me of how Piers Morgan embarrassed himself in front of Ash Sarkar. 😂
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  10. @LibertarianGalt  Speaking of sex scandals, Ayn Rand . . . 😂😂😂😂 Your post just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, and so forth), as if that undermines the Bill of Rights, one of mankind's greatest achievements in government and politics. But do go on . . . It's still amusing.
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  11. Yeah, bourgeois decadence has no limits.
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  12. It's not a real market. It's rentier class exploitation. Adam Smith described it.
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  13. @DadSavesAmerica  "The labor theory of value is false." Only if you believe value and market price are identical. If they were, then of course that would be true. But we know they are not: both in theory (see, for example, the recent work of Yanis Varoufakis), and from experience (e.g., the way the price of certain mortgage-backed securities collapsed in 2009; the way no organic farmer and no rancher can make what McDonald's makes; the way videos like this one will make much more money than the math videos from Kenya; the way an inferior immunization product just made record profits for investors, and so forth). Note that I've just given examples from housing, food, education, and health care. That was an accident. It's not like you have to plan that. The examples are everywhere, staring us in the face. Not a pretty picture.
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  14. Karl Marx had a doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy, with a thesis on the pre-Socratics. He, like Nietzsche and Freud, read Greek and Latin fluently. You're trying to import modern, American ideas about child-rearing into 19th century Germany? That's how you interpret letters from his father? I thought you wanted to send your child to university in Italy. What do you think he would study there? Not this nonsense. But he didn't learn his Italian (and Latin), did he? 😂
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  15. "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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  16.  @carguy1979  When did you speak with her?
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  17. @danielmacmaster5822  Ayn Rand? Who do you think her followers were? Read up on the 2008 implosion of global finance, from which we never recovered. See who its architects followed, and in some cases actually knew when they were young. (BTW, during the pandemic, we lowered the fractional reserve requirement to zero percent. Where is it now?)
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  18. "Is Western Civilization on the verge of collapse?" Okay, do they want us to cheer for no, or secretly cheer for yes?
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  19. This is closer and closer to what Adam Smith called the rentier class. Rentier 3.0.
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  20. @LibertarianGalt I wish you had written that more clearly. I'm getting an impression that it was good. No, I mean it. I wasn't making an argument. I was making an observation about tactics that are roundly condemned on this channel by Dad.
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  21. @danielmacmaster5822  So in other words, frank criticism didn't cause a rupture. Quite different from what usually happens to, say, "whistleblowers," innit? (See, for example, Carl Elliott.)
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  22.  @danielmacmaster5822  Oh, following me around now, are you? So, it turns out you don't know history.
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  23. @andrewsteel5271  I have an idea. Read it. Yeah, of course getting to the top by tearing others down is bad. No kidding. When has that stopped anyone? Athens was living in a post-truth society 2400 years ago. Then they lost a big war to Sparta . . .
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  24. ​@unreadlibrarian Don't bring them into the world to do as the corporatists want them to do, and ruin their own lives and then also the lives of others. That was what I heard. Made sense to me.
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  25. FOUR BILLION are "middle class???" I'll have what he's having. 😂
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  26. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  27. Memento mori.
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  28.  @C_R_O_M________  Most of my posts are gone. Dad can't handle them? LOL
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  29. I hope your clergy are not weird if you know what I'm getting at.
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  30. ​ @C_R_O_M________  Boom and bust is inherent in capitalism. No economist will say anything different. Adam Smith's free market would be heaven compared to what we have, but concentrations of capital that proceed to distort that free market are inevitable. That's what Marx demonstrated. He appreciated Smith and Ricardo. They were great economists compared with the lackeys to big business-big government you see today, or the dreamers who think we can return to Smith's time. But yeah, I have nothing against Smith. He would be a vast improvement. You'd have small grocers in every neighborhood selling the freshest, most wholesome food and no inflation, instead of having to hope self-interest keeps Jeff Bezos marginally ethical. Go for it, please.
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  31. ​ @C_R_O_M________  Why did you think I was a guy?
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  32. Anyone who can make money putting out stuff like this has got to love the system. Most people in the world work. It's starting to show, too.
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  33. “A mother who is really a mother is never free.” -- Balzac
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  34. Or, you could close this app and read real books, in more languages than just English. Then you might know stuff
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  35. In The Apology, Plato explains, through Socrates, the potential for destruction inherent in competition. In short, there are two routes to the top: Making yourself as excellent as possible, or . . . sabotaging the competition. Either way, the top spot is yours. Which route do people follow?
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  36. @martindenham2207  That's true, but "the system" does breed them, doesn't it? I know that's vague. We don't know what aspects of the cultural context is doing this. All we know is that contemporary capitalism isn't curbing it, obviously -- though knowledge of Adam Smith and John Locke should, actually!
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  37. @martindenham2207  Yes there is. There is a system of rewards and punishments that is in no way simply "natural" or "spontaneous."
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  38. ​ @albertchurchill4845  In fact, this guy and countless others on YouTube are profiting, too. It's a symbiotic relationship. If you look at videos from Africa or the BRICS, a lot of them are about stuff like piano or mathematics. Get a clue, will you?
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  39. So, you've read them? Or you take Savior Dad's word? 😂
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  40. ​ @daveouterspace "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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  41.  @sdrc92126  In the meantime, we have debt and the threat of foreclosure and ruin. But someone will pocket that change.
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  42.  @sdrc92126  I'm not, personally. Most Americans are. The country as a whole is.
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  43.  @sdrc92126  I don't live an American lifestyle. I have a flip phone, no television, a 20-year-old Volvo S80 (my much loved Fjord . . . Ford had to sell it, now I don't want a new one 😢), mortgage paid in the last century, new roof and furnace/AC but all remodeling delayed (bad idea), eat out no more than a few times per year, because friends want to, cook from scratch (too bad inflation is ruining that plan). Who knows what's next, though?
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  44. Or, he's a whistle-blower. A new Snowden. You do believe in innocent until proven guilty, correct?
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  45. Einstein considered himself a socialist, too.
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  46. 29:38 They're not? What do you call gender affirming care, or even the COVID vaccine for otherwise normal and healthy children?
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  47. Incorrect all the way down.
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  48. But this is something you always consider. Some variants of flu are very dangerous to children, but less so to adults in their 40s and 50s. That's something that matters.
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  49. No, the most robust cooperation is not based on genetics at all, but on the marital pair.
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  50. ​@bryanhawkins9418 At some point, you notice that the worst things happen to the best people, invariably. Then you start to read history with new understanding. Then you reread the Gospels. That was the effect WWII had on many, as but one example.
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